free possible upgrade for MS office

[crl]

Hey Fellas, if you don´t have MS office and or want a better upgrade try this, its free. Tied to Sun Systems products and very good.
Has Office
Powerpoint
an I believe a Excell type of do hicky thing.
www.openoffice.org/
Its a big download so no DSL it will take a while.
Hope it helps someone
CRL

[crl]

OK if you get this on the install wizard it will ask if you want all your MS files converted? Say no... you can always convert the files later or by choice. Reason being if you convert the files and change something you´ll always have to deal with a two file system...if you have done this already and want your MS files back. PM me and I´ll tell you how to fix it.
CRL

[fort]

Openoffice is great if you don't have Microsoft office. I wouldn't call it an upgrade though. Still a great program. Great price too

[crl]

Well it depends on if you have MS 95-powerpoint and excell absolute yes---97 Maybe---2000-2003 no way.- I run 2000 pro- but have 2000 office. XP runs 2000-2003 office (97) wedged.
For older programs its good.
For new ones No! But hey its free! The New Vista OS which I am gonna get with a dual 64 puppy dog Processor (athalon) the Office is expensive and you gotta have it, the old office will not work. But Open Office will with its 64 bit program which will follow on the heels of Vista....just trying to help out is all.
I also think you can PDF it much easier than Word? Have to check that out, also it has a flash to power point which I also believe is free so the PPP(power Point Presentations) can do more media cool stuff. I also have to check that out, and maybe spend less time on this Site...man its like my coffee in the morning, gotta have it. If you have time maybe you can answer some of these questions it would be appreciated.
CRL

[fort]

I don't have openoffice on this computer, so I'll have to check my other one, which I'll do in a minute. I do believe that PDF creation is easier and free, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

You can get a free pdf creator from here for Word: www.software995.com/
It's a virtual printer (you select it from the list of printers when you "print" whatever document you are working on). Not good at all for editing them though.

Let me investigate a bit and I'll get back to you.

[fort]

Yes, OO has pdf creation, which is really easy to use. Everything seems to be very similar to Microsoft Office, but I find Office easier to navigate as somethings are different.

But as you said, definately an upgrade for anyone not running Office XP (2003?).

[crl]

Great. thanks Fort...I´ll look into the software 95...PDF is an easy way to go on transfers it seems of big presentations.
CRL