Free Office
 

Started using open office a month or so ago and did not want to recommend it untill I was sure about it, well if you want FREE office this is the one, no bugs, great easy useage and its free......
http://www.openoffice.org/
like firefox its getting away from microsoft and it works......

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Been using it for ages both at work and at home. It is now a very polished piece of software.

Ian

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I also use openoffice, great piece of software for the price! :)

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My office was free anyway. it came with the pc.

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I thought all software was free in Russia

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hehe, well its about a quid a disk, but that doesn't make it legal!

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I don't remember posting that it was legal :D

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You proberbly paid a lot more for your PC though because the software was included

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nope my bro electrosoldier built it for me,450 quid, for some reason it came with loads and loads of software, full office 2003 being one of them. dreamweaver, clone dvd, nero ultra, dvd x whatever that does, norton, acrobat 6 pro, power dvd, i dunno what cost n what doesnt but this pc has loads on it

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Schools/College are a pain. We have to develop our ICT coursework in Microsoft Access (Worst damn database program ever!!!) so I need to install Office because OpenOffice isnt perfect at converting Access files :(

It would be so much cheaper if the schools/colleges used OpenOffice or some other form of office that supports open stanards :(

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Maybe it would but then when the students go for a job they would find the majority of places used MS Office. Most employers ask for MS Office experiance so schools and colleges teach what is asked for.

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Should break the circle somewhere, and companies should start using free software, would also save them a fortune :p

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When companies start using it then I am sure school's and colleges will follow suit.

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Which suggests that its all dodgy software(apart from the obvious free stuff like Adobe). Posting on a public forum that you have a PC full of dodgy softawre is not a very clever thing to do IMHO

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Acrobat 6 pro is not free, it is out of date but not free. Acrobat reader is the free one. I would suggest you ditch version 6 and install Acrobat reader 7, it is a lot faster loading and doesn't crash out Firefox, if you use it. Try cutpdf here for writing pdf's, it works well and is free.

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I've not posted that it's dodgy.

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I never write pdf neil, i don't even know what they're for. your right it wasn't free. I've never had it crash anything but it does keep wanting updates. Dunno about swapping it for standard 7 though, the pro is far better than the last standard one i installed.

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I'll keep the site though just in case.

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No you haven't but to be blunt, there is more than £450 worth of software there. I guess you have all teh license codes, etc?

I find it quite funny that people are so happy to use dodgy software but aren't prepared to admit it.

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Is there? I got a bargain then didn't I, It ain't a bad machine too, even if it is a little old, and the writers doesn't play the sound very clear. If i plug an external dvd drive in its clearer but still not perfect. on the pc one i get a constant regular beep through the speaker s and its really quiet and the external the beeps aren't there and its louder but still not right, perhaps you could guess on that for me?. As for being happy, most of the software i use is the free software, I have absolutely no use for dreamweaver. I've never used nero. Don't really use office, I use wordpad. Shame it's going to waste really.

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DVD playback could be a DMA issue. Ensure it is enabled on all drives.(Control Panel, system, device manager disk properties IIRC). Have you tried re-installing the soundcard drivers? maybe worth a go. could you try a spare soundcard to eliminate that from teh equation?

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I to have both Mirosoft and Open Office. I use Staroffice 8 at work and when I get round to it will install Open Office 2.0 (Staroffice 8 equiv) but have MSO for my daughter thanks to the school.