MS Office replacement

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Andy Mabbett

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.
 
Andy said:
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?
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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?
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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...)
 
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?
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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/win32/lba_office_r2_en.zip
 
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.
 
Babya bSuite includes music making tool web site design, ss,
WP,etc-saves in common formats.
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Is it MS Office compliant?

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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/win32/lba_office_r2_en.zip
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I have tried LBA office. First impressions on it are great so far. If all my
tests work out, I may even switch from OO to LBA Office. Very nice software.

ozzy
 
aafuss said:
Babya bSuiten includes bitmap image editing, music making and wp,ss,
slideshows and more-only 30mb installed.
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I bet "Babya bSuiten" is about as real as A. A. Fussy's girlfriend, "Rosy
Palm".
 
I did this switch last yearto see what it'd be like and I've found it
ok. The one snipe I have is that Open Office seems to take longer to
load a document (might be something to do with my setup, I don't know).
Apart from that it all seems to run fine for me. If I had £200 given
to me (or however much Microsoft Office is these days) for office
software I'd keep the dosh and get Open Office !! I am running with the
pre-release version 2 at the moment and it seems ok

Thats my input anyways :)

Andy
 
Yes as well-uses .txt, rtf, htm and .mdb
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Which versions of Office, and how comliant can it be if it is so small?

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aafuss said:
97-2003, most of the apps can save in .rtf, , .txt, .htm , etc formats
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Office compliant doesn't mean you can save in rtf, dopey. I thought you
were a programmer?
 
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