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By: Manjunatha. R

Manjunatha. R — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:40:40 +0000

Open Office is big crab when compared with windows office. I had to do a M.Tech report, so initially I tried with open office, It felt like very bad, then I did my report in windows office and one day opened the same report in open office again all allignment that I did were gone. There is no guarantee that open office correctly opens doc/docx created in windows office.

By: the_cardfather

the_cardfather — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:00:37 +0000

Thanks for the list. I’m willing to try outlook replacements, but the functions I use Word and Excel for are not really supported on any Linux ready programs I’ve seen. I hate that these two programs are keeping this OS back. (I’ve converted from PC games, so that doesn’t bother me).

Forms, Tables, XML functions, and pictures all format very poorly in open office. The office I was in in 2005 converted to Open Office for cost reasons and I didn’t see that much difference. Today those programs are worlds apart. MS has really picked up thier game, but still has a lot of security issues and thier software is still a ram hog. I’m no fanboy, but I need functionality.

By: lakshan

lakshan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:54:08 +0000

7Zip is a Nice open source alternative to WinZIP.

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