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Openoffice - a replacement for MS Word?

Discussion in 'The Alternative OS' started by LucyS, Mar 16, 2005.

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  1. LucyS Newcomer, in training

    Are you familiar with Openoffice? I need to advise people who can't save documents in .doc format what they can use as an alternative to MS Word. (i.e. those who bought a new computer when Works would only save in .wps)

    Can you just download the Word equivalent, or do you need to download a whole big package? Is it something that can be easily distributed to students on a CD?

    Thanks for any info!
  2. Nodsu Newcomer, in training

    OO.org is distributed as the whole package but you can install only the word processing part of it if you like.
    Not a very big download ~80MB for the stable 1.1.4 version and ~100MB for the 2.0 beta.
  3. jcsalas Newcomer, in training

    Yes to me

    Hi, I began to use the Open Office a year ago and it´s a excelent option to replace MS word. You would try to download the new distribution of OO and see the new features.
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