Openoffice.org
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The Khan Artist
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OpenOffice.org 1.1 (well, the RCs, anyway) is pretty sweet. Opens just about any document format, is free, is smaller than MS Office, and can export to PDF and SWF.
jollyrancher
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Bad idea... many companies want people who are proficient in MS Office, especially Excel. Why not use it??? It's easy enough to use and doesn't freeze. Didn't the computer come with it?
The Khan Artist
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jollyrancher said:
OpenOffice.org is free. Not just in price, either. It is free in the sense of free speech; you can download the source code, modify it, and redistribute it as your own application, within a few limits. You can't do that with MS Office. Also, MS Office is, of course, made by Microsoft. I use as few Microsoft products as I can.
OpenOffice.org provides almost as much functionality as MS Office XP Standard. While the loading process is slower than Office, the application itself is as fast as, or faster than Office. OpenOffice.org is also easy enough to use. If your computer didn't come with Office, then you won't be out the $200+ Office costs. OpenOffice.org is at least as stable as MS Office. OpenOffice.org runs on Windows, OS X, and most Unixes, including Linux, BSD, and Solaris.
Umm... anything I missed?
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The Khan Artist
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Oh, yeah. I did forget one thing. A very important one, too. 
Unlike MS Office, the OpenOffice.org file formats are fully and openly documented, and freely available for anyone to implement in the their programs.
Unlike MS Office, the OpenOffice.org file formats are fully and openly documented, and freely available for anyone to implement in the their programs.
The Khan Artist
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StarOffice == OpenOffice + a few extra components (such as the DB) licensed from other companies. Both are built from the same root codebase.
