Tried to re install it and tried to fix it in other ways and nothing worked.
A number of months ago, my main word processing program stopped working correctly. Overall, I think Apache Open Office is a strong and well designed office suite.įor anyone who writes a lot of material, I am here to tell you that this a very affordable life saving back up program to have on your computer. Presumably for patent and copyright reasons, some menus are a bit convoluted. However there may be competent third party file converters. Open Office offers conversion into native Open Office formats only of Microsoft Office files (including Word and Excel) and does not offer conversion of formats such as Word Perfect, WordStar, Wang, and XYWrite. However, newbies to office software might find it more difficult than Microsoft Office. I have yet to lose any files.Įase of use: If you mastered Microsoft Office, Apache Open Office should be easy to learn. Reliablity and stability: About the same. I am now going to list areas where I think Apache Open Office is comparable to Microsoft Office (i.e. Above I have listed three areas where I think Apache Open Office is better than Microsoft Office. Third, last but by no means least, Open Office is available free of charge.
This means that the time you invest in learning Open Office is not going to be thrown out the window because of planned obsolescence. Open Office, on the other hand, retains a much more stable interface as it evolves. Second, Microsoft has the unpleasant practice of changing the user interface with each new version of Office, presumably in an effort to persuade users that a retread with a few new features is "new". I rate this product superior to Microsoft Office in several important areas.įirst, Open Office will run under all the MS Windows versions, 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, and 8, as well as on Mac OS, with several Unix versions, and will presumably run under future versions of Windows, so that the user will not run into the situation of finding that software they have thoroughly mastered is being made obsolescent, and that they are going to have to waste time learning a "new" office suite. It continues these days as a project of the non-profit Apache Software Foundation. Subsequently the project continued with help from Sun employees and volunteers. In 1999, Sun Microsystems, a highly respected hardware and software company, acquired StarOffice suite, and in 2000 open-sourced it, making it available as freeware, under the name, presumably as a rebuke to Microsoft. It began life in 1985 in Germany, and became an office suite called StarOffice that was used on computers including Zilog, Amstrad, and Commodore 64. While Open Office is freeware at the present time, it has a strong pedigree.
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