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03-18-2008 05:17 AM #1D.V. Editor-in-Chief
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I have a very special question about MS Word
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
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03-18-2008 05:31 AM #2Banned
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Better? no, not really.
Free'er? Try OpenOffice.org (yeah, that's the name of it.) I know Google was working on one too, I'm not sure if they released it yet. I'm sure neither one has the functionality of Word, but I'm also sure that both are less annoying and have most of the capabilities of Word.
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03-18-2008 06:54 AM #3Veteran of the DV Wars
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As far as I know, OO.o can do everything Word can, and then some. It's what I use personally. There are also a few variants of OpenOffice out there, I think IBM has one that's supposed to have better looks and more features. I read a brief snippet about it in PC World's (or it could have been PC Magazine, not sure) top freeware programs article this month. I'll look it up real quick and see if I can get more info on it.
Originally Posted by ninja9578
Edit: Here it is, IBM Lotus Symphony.
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03-18-2008 05:12 PM #4Member Achievements:
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Depends on what "better" means to you. There's definitely free stuff, and a lot of it is just as good, just... different. The biggest problem with Office replacements is that documents written in the latest MS will always be incompatible... then again, with their latest version of office, they seem to have made sure that backwards compatibility with their own product is a tall order.
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03-18-2008 05:16 PM #5FBI agent
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MS has been forced by the EU to open up the implementation specs for OOXML (the file format for Office 2007)
licence issues aside (of which there are many issues, but I won't go into this),
you should see OOXML filters in OO.o in the near future(\_ _/)
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03-18-2008 05:18 PM #6Banned
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I believe that OOo can read docx files.
Technically speaking, LaTeX is the best, but it's got a pretty steep learning curve and the spell checker will pick up all of the formatting stuff as erogenous.
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03-18-2008 05:28 PM #7FBI agent
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it's happened already, then Originally Posted by ninja9578
seems I'm a bit behind
Funny thing, the deal Novell signed with MS was for precisely this
Interoperability with ooxml & various server side protocols
which the EU rulings have made redundant(\_ _/)
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