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Title: silly question Post by: juddie on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:32:13 tecchie peeps, just got a macbook. is openoffice a good substitute for microsoft office or do I need to buy office?
Title: Re: silly question Post by: Nemo on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:33:30 OpenOffice is fine really, never had any major issues with it.
Title: Re: silly question Post by: sheepshagger on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:36:05 My missus has one and she has both iWork 09 and Office on it
Personally I think iWork is just as good. The built in mail programme on the OS is also pretty good these days.... iWork is easily downloadable from various places ;) Title: Re: silly question Post by: WR5 on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:36:13 OpenOffice is fine but there are plenty of erm *cough* evaluation copies of micro$oft office if you look for them
Title: Re: silly question Post by: juddie on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:39:03 hmmm, it's for business purposes so needs to be kinda legit!
Title: Re: silly question Post by: kaufman on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:45:51 Open office is great, you could just buy "pages" from the app store on your mac £13.99 i think.
But open office does all you need to do i think Title: Re: silly question Post by: juddie on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 11:54:27 can PC users open openoffice docs?
Title: Re: silly question Post by: sheepshagger on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 12:03:12 Yeah it works either way round - just save your pages file as a word compatible file in the drop down box and vica versa
Title: Re: silly question Post by: WR5 on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 12:03:38 can PC users open openoffice docs? yes, sometimes the formatting goes a little wrong but most the time it is is fine. Title: Re: silly question Post by: jonny72 on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 12:05:15 The big problem with Office vs Open Office / Pages is compatibility. They are 95% there but the missing 5% means page layouts get screwed up and documents normally look different when moving between the two. I've got all of them, I'll use Pages (on Mac and iPad) if it's for personal use and Office for anything I need to share (especially work stuff).
Microsoft claim the Mac and Windows versions of Office are 100% compatible with each other, especially regards layout, and I've never seen anything to suggest that isn't the case. I'd strongly recommend getting Office, especially if its for business use. Title: Re: silly question Post by: juddie on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 12:29:37 ta much chaps.
Title: Re: silly question Post by: Barry Scott on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 12:47:24 You could also try NeoOffice which is a modified version of OpenOffice. And there's also LibreOffice, which I've never used.
I like Pages personally and iWork is freely available all over the shop as there's no serials to input and Apple knows not whether you've paid for it. Title: Re: silly question Post by: stfcinbmth on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 13:38:29 Use Libre Office myself as I don't think Open Office is being developed any more.
Title: Re: silly question Post by: jonny72 on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 13:41:41 Libre Office is a fork of Open Office, created not long after Oracle bought Sun.
Then Oracle handed Open Office over to Apache, who are now fully responsible for it. So it's still being developed and should move along quickly once they get it merged in to their procedures and practices. Wouldn't be surpassed to see Libre Office merge back in with Open Office as their main gripe was Oracle owning it. Title: Re: silly question Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, January 5, 2012, 21:57:32 If you have an ac.uk email address you can get a legit copy of office in a student deal. MS do this around every september. Google it.
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