Alternative to MS Office

Big Troubled Bear · July 08, 2009, 04:02:57 AM

Does Anyone know of a good alternative to MS Office

Preferably with the same features as Office or better, but must be freely downloadable.

The e-mail portion must have the same features as Outlook.

Thanx

NAKID · July 08, 2009, 04:04:00 AM

Open Office...

herm · July 08, 2009, 04:56:08 AM

open office is most likely the one you want. however, it does not have an integrated email client of any kind, so......

you might consider open office and the mozilla email client (thunderbird i think.)

heres a link

http://www.openoffice.org/

cyrus buelton · July 08, 2009, 04:58:43 AM

I am sure there is someone on here that would gladly through you a copy of MS Office with the product key

faolan01 · July 08, 2009, 07:25:05 AM

Open Office will handle everything except the email and feels close enough to MS Office that you probably won't notice much of a difference.

Thunderbird is the email client from Mozilla. It is fairly bare and straight forward by itself, but there are a ton of addons for it to add all sorts of functionality.

If you're looking for something you can take with you where ever you go, check out portableapps.com and install the portable apps suite on a USB stick. It has slightly modified versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice and others that run straight off the USB stick without needing to be installed locally.

cyrus buelton · July 08, 2009, 07:48:48 AM

PM Sent

He Man · July 08, 2009, 10:50:34 AM

... if you are runing a buisness open office is about 90% as good as MS office. and free. looks like office 03 not 07 though.

Goat_Herder · July 08, 2009, 12:01:35 PM

Quote from: Big Troubled Bear on July 08, 2009, 04:02:57 AM
Does Anyone know of a good alternative to MS Office

Preferably with the same features as Office or better, but must be freely downloadable.

The e-mail portion must have the same features as Outlook.

Thanx

There is no substitution for MS Office. Period.

ducducgooseme · July 08, 2009, 02:55:15 PM

I like the google apps personally

herm · July 08, 2009, 03:32:06 PM

Quote from: He Man on July 08, 2009, 10:50:34 AM
... if you are runing a buisness open office is about 90% as good as MS office. and free. looks like office 03 not 07 though.

thats a good thing too...
dont care for 07 myself.

somegirl · July 08, 2009, 08:47:57 PM

Quote from: herm on July 08, 2009, 03:32:06 PM
thats a good thing too...
dont care for 07 myself.

I can't stand office 2007.

erkishhorde · July 08, 2009, 09:10:09 PM

Quote from: somegirl on July 08, 2009, 08:47:57 PM
I can't stand office 2007.

You're not alone. I was so quick on Office '03 and then when I tried to use '07 my productivity was more than halved.

x136 · July 08, 2009, 09:34:59 PM

Office 2007 is the pits. Upside of getting laid off was not having to use that hunk o' shit anymore.

I'm not a heavy Office user, but OpenOffice has always worked for me. Hell, AbiWord and Gnumeric usually do the trick.

somegirl · July 08, 2009, 09:36:51 PM

Quote from: erkishhorde on July 08, 2009, 09:10:09 PM
You're not alone. I was so quick on Office '03 and then when I tried to use '07 my productivity was more than halved.

Running Excel macros in '07 gave me a lot more coffee breaks.

Big Troubled Bear · July 08, 2009, 09:50:52 PM

Will be going back to 03 it seems.

Thanx CB

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