With Microsoft putting out less-and-less usable software and better-and-better options becoming available online, there is no reason to shell out hard earned money for Microsoft Office. If you aren’t quite ready to move your data and applications online (search our site for Web 2.0), then OpenOffice.org’s free office software is a wonderful option.
If you are an Open Office user or plan on becoming one, you still want to be able to share documents with your work colleagues, friends and family, today’s tip takes care of that for you. Open Office not only opens any Excel, Word, or PowerPoint file (except 2007 versions at the moment), but it can save in these formats as well. Watch the video below (less than 3 minutes) to learn how to create Microsoft Office compatible documents in the FREE OpenOffice software:
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This sounds wonderful, since I’m currently have issues with my 2001 version of MS word.
So this will work pretty much the same as MS word?
….For tables as well? And the pdfcute program will also work well with this program?
If so, I’ll be in 7th Heaven….eternally grateful!
Yes, the OpenOffice word processor, dubbed Writer, works very well and can create all the types of documents you are used to with MS Word.