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Openoffice Open Office 3.0

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I've been using OpenOffice on my new MacBook Pro for about a month now. I was a lifelong PC user, and have been using Microsoft Office for at least 13 years. It's amazing how fully functional OpenOffice is. It's definitely on a par with MS Office in terms of functionality. Anyone who has used MS Office would have very little, if any, difficulty in switching over to Open Office. OpenOffice files can be saved in all of the standard MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint formats, and can be opened by anyone using MS Office. OpenOffice automatically opens files saved by just about any previous version of MS Office without having to do anything special. And, considering that OpenOffice is essentially free (there's a very modest cost for the CD version purchased through Amazon), there's no reason why anyone should have to pay $200 or more for MS Office anymore. I'm glad I went with OpenOffice.

Anyone who pays for this program has paid too much. Open Office is totally free software, available for download at it's official site, openoffice.org. There, you can download it as many times as you want, get support from their forums, and not pay a dime.


I use Lotus Symphony, which is also free, and which I have had better luck with. It's based on Open Office, but I have not had the problems with it that I had with Open Office.