Microsoft Office

inmypocketnottheirs

Don't waste money buying MS Office, as stated above get Open Office for free. It does everything MS Office does, except for lining Microsofts pockets.

Jaffa.

TheFlyingGerbil wrote: »

One thing to bear in mind is if you are submitting documents via email to the OU and are using Open Office, Works or Word 2007 is that they don't automatically save in '.doc' format, and this may be the preferred/required format for your submissions.

Joe

There is a failsafe to this, and thats to print to PDF http://www.primopdf.com/ if anybodies interested

-TangleFoot-

Jaffa. wrote: »

There is a failsafe to this, and thats to print to PDF http://www.primopdf.com/ if anybodies interested

Note: OpenOffice.org already has the capacity to export to PDF. No third-party software required.

Jaffa.

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Note: OpenOffice.org already has the capacity to export to PDF. No third-party software required.

Come to think of it, Office 2007 has the option to export to PDF as well (but you have to select it under the save menu)

george127

the best thing is grab of student copy of office 2007... but as u mentioned you require mostly ms word , so u can go for word 2007 and for which student version is also available.
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gazza975526570

robredz wrote: »

Go to www.openoffice.org/ and download Open Office this should fit the bill being both free and legal.

Does this then allow you to open microsoft programs?

Esqui

OpenOffice can open Microsoft Office formats. But to be quite frank, I find Microsoft Office to be the better program, especially 2007. It's got a fair few features you don't have in OpenOffice which are useful for essay writing - it's much easier putting in references and bibliographies.

If you can get MS Office nice and cheap, it's very much worth it.

Reggie_Rebel

I agree with the gofast, for £35 get MS Office for anything more expensive Open Office is fine

cyberbob

gofast wrote: »

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openoffice is just starting to catch up with ms office 2003 in ease of use, features and appearance. the only person who would even think of comparing openoffice with office 2007 is the sort of person who has never used it.

i.

Interesting post but you haven't actually told us why its worth buying MS office. What features does MS office have that open office doesn't that is worth spending £35 on. So what the difference. As a buyline I don't use either so I stand in the middle on this one. I use Abiword on linux and iwork on my Macs

asininity

If its just word processing I'd download Abiword very quick.