[DM-MUG] Help with Microsoft replacement

[Stuart Thiessen]

OpenOffice is a good product. I like it. My only complaint is that  
they have no good templates. But that is something that will probably  
come over time.

If you prefer something more Mac-like, you could also try the iWork  
programs (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers). It's about $79 IIRC, and  
cheaper than MS Office. They tend to work pretty nicely and contain  
most of the features that average people need. Numbers has a steeper  
learning curve if you're used to MS Excel or OOo Calc, but it seems to  
be an interesting tweak on the common spreadsheet approach. I prefer  
Keynote to MS Powerpoint and Pages isn't too shabby for most things I  
need to do.

I tend to use iWork or OpenOffice for most of what I do personally.  
For work (which is on MS Office 2007), I tend to use MS Office so that  
I can avoid the few situations where iWork and OOo doesn't convert.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Thanks,

Stuart

On Nov 3, 2008, at 21:06 , kristau wrote:

> If you get no relief from Microsoft (highly likely), consider
> "upgrading" to OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org).  It is completely
> free, imports all Microsoft formats, exports to most Microsoft
> formats, and now has a Mac-native version available.  It is a full
> office suite including word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc),
> presentations (Impress) and database (Base).
>
> It is a hefty download at 162+ MB, so if you don't have broadband,
> maybe someone can burn a CD of it for you and send it in the mail
> (yes, I'm volunteering).
>
> -- 
> Tired programmer
> Coding late into the night
> The core dump follows
>
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