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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
Also, try this free alternative to M$ office 2002[url] which i find to be very useful, and it's free to the home user.
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Uh, looks like there is only a Windows version of that. OpenOffice/StarOffice works equally well on both Linux and Windows.

Calum:
That is true, but if Russell wants to run M$ Works/Office, then he wants to run it on Windows. Therefore this free package is perfect. It doesn't do all that hidden crap like installing findfast et c either, like Office does. I haven't tried staroffice for more than about 10 minutes so i can't comment. it seems people here like it though so that's pretty good.
One thing though Russell, if you originally bought a computer with M$ works installed, didn't it come with an M$Works installer CD or floppies? It should have, so if so, use those disks to install Works on yr new computer, and use yr Office upgrade disk, which you bought, to turn it into M$ Office.
You are heading for trouble trying to copy the files across though, since there's thousands of registry entries that need to be correct for office to work (so i hear)

voidmain:
My point was that OpenOffice also runs on Windows and could be another option for him. I didn't mean he had to run it on Linux and in fact OpenOffice runs very well on Windows (better than MS Office?). But if he ever did want to run it on Linux he could.  And you got source code if you want it...

The one you mention only has a crippled version that is free.

Open Office can be downloaded at http://www.openoffice.org and it is not cripped, you couldn't pay anyone for it if you wanted to (well, you could pay me).

[ February 18, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Calum:
Well, rather than being crippled, it's kind of like they hold back half the office suite till you pay for it. You get word and excel and picture viewer type aps, but you need to pay to get a lot of plugins and an access type thing. It's only $30 though compared with M$'s $250, and you don't even need to pay it if you only want word and excel.
You are right though, why pay anything at all when there's a free alternative? I just hadn't really heard of Openoffice much. From what i have heard, it takes up a lot less disk space than 602Office, something like eight times less! Maybe i'll have to look it up...

Gonusto:
Okay,  I downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org last night and it appears to be able to read and write the various file formats that I need.  But before I take Word '97 off of my computer, I wanted to check here to see if there were any reasons that I would need to keep it installed. I don't know where the install CD went should I need it back for one reason or another.  Can anybody think of anything or am I good to go?


-Gonusto

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