[wellylug] Open Office 1.1.3 Released

[Rob Giltrap]

Nick Jensen wrote:

>>>I've never used Open Office - how does it compare to Microsoft Office?
>>>Price aside of course.
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>>I quite like it
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>So it's very similar in style to MS Office? My mother wants to be able
>to take home documents from work where she uses MS Office 2003, and
>she doesn't want to pay $500 or whatever it costs these days for 2003
>- do you know if Open Office will be similar enough for her to use it
>effectively, and if documents created in Office 2003 and modified in
>Open Office will still be readable by Office 2003?
>
>    Nick
>
Depends on how complex the documents are (nested tables and the like), 
OOo2.0 handles complex MS docs much much better but is still several 
months away from stable release. OOo1.1 handles simple documents very well.

The best thing to do is try it and see if it works for her needs.