Alternative Office

[beano500]

Been happily paying into the Gates Insurance Scam for a few years. Currently running Orifice 2000 on the home PC. Both me and Mrs Beano are using 2003 at work.

Just getting a new PC and been looking at moving on to Orifice XP to go with the Windy XP - but the cost Well, it's almost more for the software than the PC.

What alternatives are around?

I think I read that there's something which is pretty much capable of working with "Word" docs (I think called "Write"?) and something that's compatible with Excel (possibly called "Spreadsheet"?) from a rival for a fraction of the price. (But I can't remember the damned name of it!!!!)

Any experiences?

[Ballistic Banana]

No but have you heard of Kaaza Lite

BB

[rushdriver]

Star Office?


Just a drunken thought?

JD

[beano500]

Ballistic Banana said:

No but have you heard of Kaaza Lite BB

I thought that was a small Ford - going up in flames???

[Ballistic Banana]

beano500 said:

Ballistic Banana said: No but have you heard of Kaaza Lite BB I thought that was a small Ford - going up in flames???

[FourWheelDrift]

This is free - www.openoffice.org/product/

[wedg1e]

Funnily enough, I have a spare copy of Orifice XP here on my desk. In a box, with the serial number and everything. All that's missing is the MS profit margin

Ian

[Bodo]

FourWheelDrift said:

This is free - www.openoffice.org/product/

... and it works very good with MS Office file formats. My recommendation for private and small business use IIRC many authorities worldwide already replaced MS Office with OpenOffice.

[limpsfield]

The office where I work all use open Office (I use the real thing on my laptop) and the amount of whinging about it hasn't stopped since it was taken on about six months ago.

[vex]

Star Office

Smaller file sizes,

More intuative than MS Orrafice.

Can read and write as MS files.

Includes a pdf writer.

All for about £60 at PC world.

[bga]

limpsfield said:

The office where I work all use open Office (I use the real thing on my laptop) and the amount of whinging about it hasn't stopped since it was taken on about six months ago.

One of my clients had a fair bit of whining when they switched.
After 2 months they only accepted calls from people who had completed a short training course going through the differences between Open Office and the MS products they used.
After another couple of months, calls dried up to approximately the same level as when they were using MS Office.

[FlossyThePig]

vex said:

Star Office Smaller file sizes, More intuative than MS Orrafice. Can read and write as MS files. Includes a pdf writer. All for about £60 at PC world.

Open Office uses the same code base.
The latest edition of PC Pro gives it the thumbs up against all the rest. The mag should be in the shops later this week with a copy of Open Office on the cover disk. (I get mine early via subscription).

Hugh