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OpenOffice 3 is here!
Having used the Beta for some time, it's time to download the final stable version of this office suite.
If you're new to OpenOffice it is a free office suite with word processor, spread sheet, presentation software and more.
New to OpenOffice 3 are filters for opening Microsoft Office 2007 documents as well as the OpenDocument format. I also found OpenOffice 3 to be much improved when opening Microsoft Office documents with macros.
Download OpenOffice 3 here. Or you can try it online at Softwaredemo or by signing up for an Ulteo account.
Speaking of hosted applications (and why not) Sourceforge has announced that it will start hosting applications for some project (via ReadWriteWeb). There are only three at the moment but hopefully this will start to increase soon.
Hi, I had to give up using Open office as when I was sending in reports to local media for my voluntary activities they said that they were using Microsoft and couldn't read the attachments to the emails.
Does this mean that it would now be possible to open Open office documents using windows software, or was that always the case?.
Either ways just splashed out on Office Home and Student!!!!
posted-by eires | December 4, 2008 10:31 PM
I've been using Open Office for a while now and it's an awesome FREE solution for any type of document processing!
posted-by Public Domain Books | February 6, 2009 3:30 AM
I am a big fan of the new Open Office, it has a whole lot of cool features the older versions don't have.
posted-by Rundll Error | February 14, 2009 3:17 AM
Haven't been able to get Open Office. I would but it so darn expensive!
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posted-by Steve | March 2, 2009 8:41 PM
I love Open Office. It is a great solution if you cannot afford the MS version. Most of the time I have no problems using OO, but I do sometimes get problems when sending documents to people who use MS Office. Often they have trouble opening the documents.
Hopefully one day this will be sorted and we can all choose to use OO. Not to put any pressure on MS and their suite of Office products, but if they were at a more affordable price, I think that there would be less need for something like OO.
Anyways, I would give OO 8 out of 10.
Jen
posted-by Jennifer Summers | March 28, 2009 11:41 AM