re: Open Office 1.0 Info
Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 8:20 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
OPEN OFFICE 1.0
I use Open Office on ME, after trying OfficeXP Student Version simply as the shop
had no qualms in selling it to me, and, so far, I am very pleased with it.
I found Office XP to be a waste of money as it offers only two new programs, Exel
2002 and Power Point 2002, whilst it replaced my existing Word 2000 and added Outlook
when I already have Outlook Express, which ... comes with ... Internet Explorer 6
Service Pack 1.
In the Student Version of Office XP there are three CDs, one with the programs you
actually need,
(and two which you don't in many cases) a second CD with a mass of multi-media "stuff",
and
a third CD with an excellent interactive tutorial, similar to the Windows ME tutorial.
Open Office comes with a Word Processor ("Writer"), Excel ("Calc"), PowerPoint ("Impress"),
Equation Editor ("Math"), "Draw" which is just like MS Draw, Another "Global" feature
which I havn't looked into yet, and an HTML Editor, plus a repair feature which over-installs/
repairs the entire suite in about one minute.
So 7 Office Programs for ... nothing ... versus two for US$179.
Star Office retails at approximately US$90, which should be very worth-while looking
at, as I believe it is similar.
I have tried out, .DOC, .XLS, .PPP & .PPS files in Open Office with no problem.
Given the high retail price of individual Office XP programs, anywhere from $0-$90
must
be good value.
If using ME/98/98se you need to install the Unicode files first of all, to the:
C:\Windows\System , folder.
Install Open Office directly to C:\ , ... then ... add the dictionaries, one
at a time to avoid system hang, and don't forget to run defrag before AND after.
I have taken the two Windows Office XP programs off the system, sadly.
Office '97 was a much better buy, as the full suite and Access as well.
With Open Office you can leave MS Word on the system. Just observe the file associations
when you install the Open Office program, if you choose to do so.
OPEN-OFFICE FREE OPEN OFFICE
DICTINSTALL DICTIONARY INSTALLER
UNICODE FILE UNICODE
I hope that this is all of some help to you.
IML
NB. This is a Packard-Bell OEM install which makes a slight difference. However
the Word 2000 program which came with the system, will not up-date, as the
MS Office Up-Date site asks for me to insert an MS Office CD, which, being
an OEM install, I don't have.
No such problem with Open Office.
Additional Information:
POWERPOINT VIEW PPView97.exe
POWERPOINT ADD-ON MS
PRODUCER
OFFICE VIEWERS MS Office Viewers
- Written in response to:
- re: missing mscoree file (Cam: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 7:59 am)
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