Best free Office Suite?

dreamypuma

Recently ditched MS Office for Openoffice. IMO Openoffice is one of the best packages around, and for a free package, it is very comprehensive.

My only complaint is the boot up times, when not using the the openoffice launcher, even so this only adds a few second to the boot of each app.

patman99

You can use Openoffice online now, via 'ulteo'. It runs as a virtual desktop over which you have full control.

I use Openoffice installed direct on my PC, and have found it to be fully compatable with all of MS Office's templates.

As it is free, if you don't like it, then you can always uninstall it without loosing-out financially.

ZOHO is a better on-line suite than googledocs.

el_gringo_3

As everyone else has said, Open Office is better for regular use, but when you have several people working on a spreadsheet (some remotely) google docs is better. I find it can lag randomly though, and is a touch less responsive with the mouse, especially when highlighting spreadsheet cells.

Haven't tried ZOHO, might have a looksee at that.

joe2cool

Cheers guys appreciated

fox2319

Openoffice if you're on PC or linux, neooffice on the mac (same thing but more mac'y)

isofa

^ OpenOffice is also available for Mac OS X as well as Windows, Linux and Solaris... http://download.openoffice.org/other.html

However if you are a power user, OO really can't compare with MS Office at all. I certainly couldn't work with it, I use a lot of powerful features in Office. Horses for courses.

fox2319

isofa wrote: »

^ OpenOffice is also available for Mac OS X as well as Windows, Linux and Solaris... http://download.openoffice.org/other.html

NeoOffice is just a wrapper for OO on the Mac which makes the menus etc. appear in a more mac like manner