Anyone Tried The Ms Office 2006

#16 Starbuck

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Posted 02 August 2006 - 12:59 PM

It is not necessary to have Ms on your system.
When you save a writer document (equivalent to a word document) you can use the drop down box and select the format you require.
eg.... Ms Word 95, Ms Word 97/2000/xp. or Ms Word 6.0.
as well as lots of other formats.
I've been trying 'Open Office' for a couple of weeks now and find the 'Writer' just as good as 'Word'.
The only thing i've found to be a disadvantage is..... is the database, it doesn't offer the choices that Ms Office does.... but as i don't use it that much, i can live with that.
Overall though..... you'd be hard pressed to find much wrong with 'Open Office'. I'm beginning to like it and i've used Ms Office since 95.

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Posted 02 August 2006 - 09:17 PM

Starbuck, on Aug 2 2006, 01:59 PM, said:

Thanks Starbuck. :thumbsup:

That's cool, and makes things easier.

I'm going to have to give it a try, and if I have any WP documents I need to convert; I can always go to the public library, convert them to MS Word there, and then open them in Open Office at home. :flowers:

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Posted 04 August 2006 - 07:39 AM

Just as a thought about OO.o. As more and more governmental agencies around the world begin to use it, there will be more and more support from OO.o and most likely, we will see more and more enhancements, templates, and documentation, etc., for it.
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Posted 12 April 2007 - 12:18 AM

I'm still experimenting with OpenOffice. There are some situations when I am in a hurry and I don't have time to figure out how to do something in OpenOffice, and I go back to MS Word.

I would like to mention something that I really love about OpenOffice: its bullets and numbering system. The MS Word system drives me nuts because I have to keep changing their stupid auto-formatting. With OpenOffice, you have an nice little tool bar that allows you with single click or two to change the indentation and bullet figures. I used it today in creating a lesson, and boy did that save me a LOT of time. I wish I'd had that available during my graduate student years, it would have saved me oodles of time.

I have yet to try out the endnote and footnote functions and figure out how to set up labels exactly the way I want them. Its the label function that so far I end up going back to Word.

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