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Well since I'm considering going from XP to the next version of Ubuntu, I was wondering what everyone thought of OpenOffice 2.4 . Because it comes with Linux and, if I want to use Office 2003, I would have to install Wine.

 

I've tried version 2.0 but I found it slow and heavy. What about now, is it worth using OpenOffice 2.4 or should I stick with Wine + Office 2003?

 

Thanks! ;)

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I'd love to put some input in for you. But I haven't really used the open office suite. I've recommended it for people who didn't want to buy office. But I've usually stuck with Office when I could.

 

sorry but I just don't have any real input about it.

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If you are used to office and do not wish to learn how to use OpenOffice then you should just keep XP on your computer and use Office 2003.

 

I have tried installing Office 2003 on earlier versions of wine and it just does not work. I have had success CrossoverOffice to make MS office 2003 work but it CO is not worth $40 to me.

 

I prefer OpenOffice. I have had stability issues with every version of MS Office that I have ever used. I am a grad student who writes a lot of papers with a lot of data analysis which have lots of graphics. When your documents get ~10 pages long with lots of graphics in MS office has tended to crash and lose your work.

 

OpenOffice may not seem as user friendly as MS Office. But after a little use you will realize that it is just different. I think that OOo is just as easy to use as MS Office.

 

You do not have grammatic in OOo. However you do not have word auto-complete in MS Word. OOo may seem awkward at first, but you do do not have to pay $300 for it.

 

Writer, Math and Impress in my experience are 95% compatible with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint respectively. Usually whenever you cannot view or edit a document it in my experience has been caused by a hack putting a platform dependent 'real time' data fetch link which in OOo on Linux just does not work. The actual occurrence of this malfunction is very low.

 

I have never had lost a document from a program crash. I have not lost a document from a system crash. I have never lost a document from an OOo crash. I use OOo and Linux because all of the above have happened in MS Office on Windows.

 

I admit I am a bit biased. I left the Microsoft platform out of frustration, So naturally I will tell of the negative reasons why. However, I encourage you to give OOo an honest try, I use it on a daily basis and I like it, as much as I can like a word processor. You cannot beat the price. If it doesn't work for you I costs just as much to uninstall it as it did to download it.

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Not sure if this will work in your version of Outlook but try hitting CTRL + *

 

Might get rid of them, I'll keep looking to see how to do it using the mouse

 

EDIT: Think I found it here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/...1752771033.aspx

PERFECT!

 

thank you. jesus are those things ever annoying.

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