Anyone here use openoffice ?

[Rik]

How about Opera?

[cavillas]

Rude words not allowed 

[Rik]

I do like Xobni. 

[cavillas]

Did you notice that it's inbox backwards, very inventive or what? 

[Rik]

No, but a backwards inbox suits me well.

[LesD]

whats the difference with those two Les?

Baz!

[LesD]

I am no expert with Microsoft (MS) Excel or OpenOffice (OO) Calc but the simple spreadsheet I have does my home accounts by keeping track of direct debits, standing orders and the like so it's no great shakes in the scheme of things. Basically what it did in MS's Excel it does in OO's Calc just by opening the existing xls file in Calc. What I posted about above was cometics. At work we do have some much more tasking Excel spreadsheets, created by others I hasten to add with lots of cell linkage so if I think of it I will bring one of these beast home and try it in Calc and see what I make of how it is handled by this application.

OO's Writer has been a virtual clone of Word 2003 for the relatively straightforward word.doc documents I have transferred to it.
My eldest daughter bought Office 2007, the full caboodle, despite being married to a teacher, because she was told by the network administrator at the Chambers where she works, not to get the Student version as their "nonacademic" network software would block it! It was when she told me that 2007 had a new look and feel, the, "i'm an old dog that does not want to learn new tricks" shutter came down and despite her telling me how good it was and that I would soon get used to it. (Yes like my Vista Home Premium ) As soon as I heard that OO V3.0 was akin to Office 2003 with which I an ofay, I decided it was worth a try and haven't looked back. If they ever get round to upgrading the Office 2003 package that we use at work, the old dog will have to learn some new tricks but for the time being inertia prevails. 

I have done nothing more that open a couple of MS PowerPoint presentations in OO Presentations and view them. Once again this functionality was as you would expect it to be. I have not had the need or the inclination to create a new presentation using OO's Presentations so this is virgin territory for me and therefore I can offer no opinion about this.

OO being free and legal, for what I want to do with an "Office" package at home, it is great imo.