phunni Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 Just out of interest - I wonder what office suits people are using out there? I use cxoffice with MS Office XP - mostly because I have to use MS office products for work and I have never yet found another office suite that can actually open all MS files without any problems - especially powerpoint presentations. Also, OpenOffice takes far too long to start up. Let me know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dahvaio Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 I use Win4Lin and Office XP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 Open Office. With fonts I stole from a windows box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugerobot Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 Open Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 OK - also, why did you select that particular office suite/app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHattr Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 i use openoffice but just out of curiousity i was woundering if any of you have used hancom office? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 I used a demo of Hancom for a little while and I really liked it. The two factors that stopped me using it where that it's not free ( :D ) and also that it doesn't open MS office files perfectly :( Actually, if it had opened MS Office files perfectly (it was pretty good!) then I might have considered paying the cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 openoffice all the way. I actually used a final version of staroffice once (thanks to my friend who works at sun), but it's so similar to openoffice that I didn't even bother switching it in my own computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 I use Open Office and while I agree that it takes waayyyy too long to open up once it's started it works great. I also use KWord and KSpread. Just depends on what I'm doing and how fast I want to do it. I'll admit that they're not nearly as slick as MS Office apps but they do the job well enough for what I use them for. As for your second question I use Open Office because it's compatible with MS Office and it's free! I do have MS Office installed on a second HD but I only boot into that one for my job and I'm determined to not use Windoze products for anything other than what's absolutely necessary (the program I have to run for work). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jglen490 Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 Another vote for OpenOffice.org. Actually KOffice is becoming better. KWord could use some help with .doc formats, but .rtf works very well. Considering the few resources that the KOffice group has, they are doing a good job. I haven't tried abiword, not have I tried gnumeric, but there are many good things said about those products, also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SuGa Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 I use KOffice for nearly everything :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonChild Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 I use LaTeX mostly, in conjunction with Open Office. I use OO so I can see what I write/do right away, then I compile it in LaTeX to get in the format I want. Why LaTeX? Is this a question I should answer? Just chek out the quality, and then lets see if you have the question again :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 I use OpenOffice, but sitll can't let go of MSOffice 2000. Main problem is I can't seem to pritn in 8.5" x 13" paper in OpenOffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 OpenOfffice, never had a problem with ms docs. Got my powerpack so Im messing with StarOffice, but it's no difference. I just do word processing and spreadsheets, no presentations. Used to use Wordperfect before Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted December 21, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2002 It seems like OpenOffice is favourite - I find this interesting. As I said earlier - OpenOffice is a very slow start up and doesn't seem to handle MS Office files as well as users may need it to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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