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Office Alternatives?
Calum:
yeah, mozilla has overtaken netscape by a long shot, since it is open source.
a closed source alternative to mozilla is Opera. This also features mail, broswer and email client, however unlike mozilla it doesn't have a wysiwyg html editor, but then you can probably live with that if you have mozilla already anyway.
DJ:
I am really liking this OpenOffice.org suite, works VERY well so far, was messing around with it last night and didn't get my homework done until 2:30
thanks everyone
DJ
[ October 14, 2002: Message edited by: Engineer ]
mobrien_12:
Unless your professors specifically want to modify the documents using the annotation/markup tools in Word, they ask for doc because they don't know any better. You can turn in your homework in rich text format (RTF) and it will open in Word or many other word processors.
RTF works fine for most documents. It's not good for embedded pictures though. RTF can be read and written by almost every word processor. You can even convert LaTeX DVI files to RTF.
Better yet, tell your professors that you can give them PDF files. Unless the professors want to modify the documents, PDF is the ideal solution for electronic documents.
Check out my webpage for information on making PDF documents.
http://www.geocities.com/mobrien_12
DJ:
I already know how to make pdf files (in M$ Word anyway), its not to different using OO.org is it, if possible? Just something I would like to keep in mind.
DJ
beltorak0:
nope; just save as type "pdf".
-t.
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