Open Office or MS Word?

Is Open Office better than MS Word for creating Ebooks?

 

Open office!!

 

I use Open Office, because well, it's free. But it crashes alot and sometimes the format of docs and excel sheets are whacky. I prefer using Google Docs online actually. It's basic, but it's pretty solid.

EDIT: I just saw that you meant for eBooks and I would say MS instead of Open Office, however I myself would use Photoshop.

 

Really! I should probably try Google Doc. and yeah i know what you mean, Open office does freeze often for me but i enjoy the features like table of contents etc. But I might just try Google Docs!

 

Hehe great, it's pretty basic, but the great thing is it's already in the cloud so you can view your docs from any computer or device. And it's great for collaboration, you can invite anyone to join in at editing the same doc at the same time, you can actually see where they are currently active on the sheet, pretty nifty.

 

Well I will be checking it out for sure! Thanks!

 

Microsoft Word for the win. Open Office is the best free alternative but I personally would prefer Word 2010 any day.

Jack

 

Thanks Spixel. I will also give Google Doc a go

 

I would always go for Microsoft word. Though it is a paid software, I haven't been comfortable with using any other text editor. Also, MS is great for ebooks, especially those you need to upload to kindle.

 

Definitely MS Word 2010. I using it and can create great, professionally look graphic. Easy to use and fast to convert in PDF.
All of my reports, ebook, ebook covers and graphics I made with word. Take a look one...

 

I myself use Libra office, it is free and so far has not crashed on me. Also made by people who used to work on open office.

 

Really? Never knew you could make such graphics with MS Word. How do you do it?

 

Easy, o

pen word and let your imagination and creativity do the rest. There are thousands of options inside the word, explore it and use it...

 

my opinion is ms word for sure.. using it since 7 years.. nothing match that better !!

 

I prefer MS Word. I've tried using Open Office, and while it is a good free alternative, it does not work for me all the time. MS Word is more reliable for me.

Have a good weekend!

 

I use both because both of them can be turned into PDF's and that is what you have to do to your ebook.

 

I tried open office for a while, but I think it stinks up the place. Word is fine for making PDF's but if you have no choice, Open Office isn't the worst thing either.

 

use libreoffice, openoffice fork

 

It would be best to use MS Word while open office seem always lot of troublesome .
People might hard to open the file that save by open office.
MS Word spelling checker also work better than open office.

 

I agree with wally247. Word is perfect in creating PDFs but if you're after for 'free' software, go with Open Office.