Looking for Office or equivalent

Toastandmarmite

Hi there, Dell have had to come and completely refit my laptop recently after one of their engineers messed it up in all entirety. Anyway, the original mess up wiped my copy of Office that an ex boyfriend had installed on there using 1 of his 3 licences.

I have read Martin's article about free Office ware, and had a few questions about Open Office. I'm not a student and my work don't seem to run a scheme where we can use a subsidised licence (although I will double check this out with IT tomorrow as our itranet isn't always updated).

I'm a volunteer in Guiding, and we have a lot of forms and d/loadable information that has to be used in certain 'corporate' fonts and colours, if I were to move over to Open Office is it likely to retain that or will the functionality for logos, colours and fonts be stuck in Office as that's their software?

Also, at work we use Office 2007 and are upgrading in a couple of weeks to the newer version (the one with ribbon functionality - is it 7? I just looked at the course briefing outline and that's all I remember) will documents that I save on our shared server be compatible in Open Office?

And finally, have I missed or overlooked any cheaper option than the Amazon one where it's about £50?

Thanks in advance

T&M

Donnie

Details in your private message box.

gaz_jones

Could you not post it on here donnie incase anyone else has a similar question?

mr_fishbulb

Toastandmarmite wrote: »

Also, at work we use Office 2007 and are upgrading in a couple of weeks to the newer version (the one with ribbon functionality - is it 7? I just looked at the course briefing outline and that's all I remember) will documents that I save on our shared server be compatible in Open Office?

2007 is the latest (publicly available) Office version. The xml file formats should be compatible with Open Office, but can be a bit iffy if you use a lot of the advanced features.

Donnie

gaz_jones wrote: »

Could you not post it on here donnie incase anyone else has a similar question?

No, private messages are just so.

[Deleted User]

I don't think it takes a genius to figure out what Donnie is up too, it's the same in every thread along similar lines.

Donnie

anewhope wrote: »

I don't think it takes a genius to figure out what Donnie is up too, it's the same in every thread along similar lines.

So, tell me what I am "up to"? You had better be careful as to what you allude.

[Deleted User]

I really don't think I need too.

Donnie

anewhope wrote: »

I really don't think I need too.

Then you really ought to be quiet.

Marty_J

Donnie wrote: »

No, private messages are just so.

What an exciting message board this would be, if only we could all conduct our conversations in private.

If the OP asked in an open forum (which I believe she did), you should respond likewise.

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