Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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i needed to do some work down my girl friends flat this weekend and i forgot to bring home of MS Office. so i decided to donwload open office and give that ago.
Ive gotta say im bloody impressed, i cant find any faults so far, and the best thing is its FREE.
Given this fact, im debating whether to purposly use this program full time in/out of work and possibly impliment it at work.. a saving of nearly £200 per PC is going to be a big saving.
Anyone else rate this?
Adam
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Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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Only problem I've found with it is password-protected files set up in MS Office, it doesn't like some of them...
None-the-less, it's what I use in work! 
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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using it myself at work, and implimenting right the way accross the company are two different things.
But thanks for the info on the passwords, as we also use passwords. Perhaps i'll have to copy/paste into open office in order to convert (so to speak).
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
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Open office?
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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http://www.openoffice.org/
completly free, and as i can see, exactly same as ms office suite.
Excel, word, access etc
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
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looks cool
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
Location: Midsomer Norton, Bristol Avon
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it does.
i might be wrong, but i think google are ploughing loads $ into it too.
Funny how google and microsoft dont get on.
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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Yeah, Google are doing/planning a Google branded version.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Last I read it was just going to be google branded.
There are issues with more complex word files and whole documents have to be re-done due to formatting errors.
Also takes a lot longer to open up larger word files.
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