MS Office replacement

I'm thinking of ditching MS Office, in favour of an open source
alternative - but which: Open Office or Star Office? What are the pros
and cons?

How easy is the switch from Office to one or other of these; and how
many of Office's useful features are missing from the free utilities?

I realise that this may constitute a "FAQ"; a pointer to a website, or a
previous discussion of these issues, would be appreciated.

Thank you.

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Andy Mabbett wrote:

> I'm thinking of ditching MS Office, in favour of an open source
> alternative - but which: Open Office or Star Office? What are the pros
> and cons?

They're the same package. OpenOffice is opensource, star office is sold by
Sun Microsystems. Same codebase, same product.

> How easy is the switch from Office to one or other of these; and how
> many of Office's useful features are missing from the free utilities?

The switch is generally easy, unless you have a *lot* of custom macros.

OpenOffice is as feature complete as Microsoft Office, maybe even stronger
in a few key areas (PDF and Flash export come to mind...)

>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:57:28 +0000, Andy Mabbett <usenet200309@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>
>I'm thinking of ditching MS Office, in favour of an open source
>alternative - but which: Open Office or Star Office? What are the pros
>and cons?
>
LBA Office based on the Open Source OpenOffice.org project, and offers
all the features of the OpenOffice.org application Plus.

ftp://ftp.sot.com/lbaoffice_r2/win3...ffice_r2_en.zip

> I'm thinking of ditching MS Office, in favour of an open source
> alternative - but which: Open Office or Star Office? What are the pros
> and cons?

Not quite, what you want, but look at that:
http://sixfiles.com/dbase/files/e-p...pdf-filter.html
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Babya bSuite includes music making tool web site design, ss,
WP,etc-saves in common formats.

Babya bSuiten includes bitmap image editing, music making and wp,ss,
slideshows and more-only 30mb installed.

"aafuss" <babyasoftwaregroup@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1106603030.377198.163130@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> Babya bSuite includes music making tool web site design, ss,
> WP,etc-saves in common formats.
>
>

Is it MS Office compliant?

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aafuss <babyasoftwaregroup@gmail.com> spewed incessantly:

> Babya bSuiten includes bitmap image editing, music making and wp,ss,
> slideshows and more-only 30mb installed.

Does it burn CDs???

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:19:42 -0700, "MAMEngineer" <ask@nice.com>
wrote:

>aafuss <babyasoftwaregroup@gmail.com> spewed incessantly:
>
>> Babya bSuiten includes bitmap image editing, music making and wp,ss,
>> slideshows and more-only 30mb installed.
>
>Does it burn CDs???
>
And make coffee...

Yes, with CDBurnerXP included.