>>Since I started using Open Office I never considered buying Office. Give it a try if you don't need Office to test automation or something.
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>I have played with OO a little but only on the Mac. Whil H. told me a few years ago that is was so compatible that he was using OO to communicate with his authors, who were using MS Office, with the authors none the wiser.
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>Do you know how current they stay with MS Office releases? Presumably there must at least be a lag if they are reverse engineering. (Then again, there is a lag before new releases of Office work right, too <g>).
I haven't found anything missing but the last Office I owned was Office 2007 or something. More features than I'll ever use and will definitely open and create compatible docs with any office I have encountered on clients. Powerpoint, Excel, Word - works fine for me. Give it a try - it's free.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
