Open Office - Best alternative?

Jake'sGran

This laptop came with MS Office for just three months. Now that it has gone I was thinking of downloading Open Office but then realised there might be something else recommended by MSE users. I don't need anything too fancy; just want to make notes and type the occasional letter. Any suggestions please?

[Deleted User]

Stick to Open Office, or if you like things to look a bit better you could try Lotus Symphony

colin13

IMO Open Office is as good asMS Office and it is compatiable with MS Office IF MY MS OFFICE goes wonky I will defo download open office

Marty_J

Well, you can type letters and make notes in Wordpad, so if that's all you want to do, you don't necessarily need anything else.

If you really want an Office-style suite of applications though, I'd definitely recommend OpenOffice.

Jake'sGran

Marty_J wrote: »

Well, you can type letters and make notes in Wordpad, so if that's all you want to do, you don't necessarily need anything else.

If you really want an Office-style
of applications though, I'd definitely recommend OpenOffice.

I don't believe there is Wordpad on here. I did look.
I'll go for OPEN OFFICE and thank you all very much.
I wanted to do a bank charges reclaim letter for my son and all I managed to get was a link but now I can't seem to open it. Just realised that somehow or other it is on Notepad - don't know how I managed that. This might be the reason I can't open it though?

angelavdavis

Just copy and paste the text from Notepad into Open Office.

PeterPerfect

You could use the inbuilt wordpad that comes with the OS. If you want to do more complicated actions then Open Office is your best bet. For notes you could use the digital equivalent of post-it notes. There are a number of freeware versions

nickj_2

try google docs - it has a w/p , spreadsheers etc
https://www.google.com/docs

TimothyEBaldwin

There is also an alternative version of OpenOffice.

asininity

If its just letters etc then I'd go for AbiWord, very lightweight and very good.

barongreenback

Abiword is a nice word processor and is simple to use. OpenOffice has more features and has the added spreadsheets etc. If you never use Powerpoint, spreadsheets and databases go for Abiword otherwise OpenOffice every time.