Excellent Free Alternative to Windows Office

i suppor that open office is the best alternative to windows office but i like very much EXCEL in my opinion best thing that MS has
developed is EXCEL it is best and i m very much depended on it so i cannot switch on to the open office.
Thanks

 

open office is great and i dont use ms office any more

yep the pdf option is great

 

open office has excel like tool called spreadsheet
and very much similar to excel

 

Open Office would be the best alternative but it doesnt even come close to MS Office.

 

Have been using Openoffic.org for last 3-5 years. You dont need Window or anything this is kick ass, kick butt and better than Microsoft... its FREE, yes its FREE

 

You know why SUN MICRO made this a FREE software to compete with Microsoft? They wanted to drive down Microsoft sales and revenues IMHO. They executed an open source community. Its a great product but few people know about it.

 

All of you guys think about the windows users. I am now using windows, i'm using ubuntu 10.04 and Open Office is the best. Also used on windows is the best, because it's cheaper (free) than Microsoft Office 2003-2010.

 

I tried it a while back but for word processing it did a terrible job with grammar correction. At least about a year or so ago. Maybe they improved that since then. Other than that for free it does a good job.

 

With OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC5.org without any problems, you can open most documents of MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), edit them and save as in the standard format of OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC5, and in their original format. OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC5 is in continuous development and its capabilities are constantly evolving. Unlike MS Office OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC5 works very well both on Windows, and on Linux. There is a perfect form of support OASIS OpenDocument, export data in PDF format embedded tools for working with databases and others.

 

windows office is better than open office.

 

Yeah i am well aware of this open source office utility. You can find more details here http://www.itbuzz.co.cc/2008/12/open-office-opened-new-horizons/

 

I have Office 2003, but haven't updated to 2007 or 2010 because it's very expensive to do so.

What I find is that most people don't use 80% of all what's possible with MS Office, so Open Office will be adequate for most people.

 

OpenOffice is great, but I still prefer MS Office as it is the standard. Even if OO had/has all the same features.

 

I'm a great fan of Open Office .. They are simply awesome !!1

 

Did you try ABI Word? It works supberb. There are many features available now. Check it you. It only allows word processor. And it totally depends on your computer ram as well

 

Google Docs might be the biggest competitor of MS Office. Google Docs might be the best online office suite.

 

the best part of openoffice is it's FREE

 

I still use windows office because they do not need to learn again another program which I have not met

 

I feel like I just opened a timewarp thread from 10 years ago! People who have heard about Open Office but never used it? Really?

I much prefer Open Office over Microsoft Office, although there are some compatibility reasons why I do sometimes revert to Microsoft Office.

For anyone 'on the fence', go ahead. Download and install Open Office. It is a more than competent mutli-platform Office suite which will serve all your names. If there's anything you do regularly, which you can't do with Open Office, then by all means upgrade. Otherwise, support the Open Source movement.