Open office

[rakib]

Now days, I am seeing that Open Office is becoming popular. Have any one use it? if yes, Please share your experience over here.

[Bagi Zoltán]

Though I use it, I prefer MS Office. They are the same but not 100%. Open Office provides more features but MS packaging is more beautiful.

[dhscott]

OpenOffice relies on Java, it means you can't really do much else at the same time, lags your computer out. I also prefer MS Office if I can use it.

On KUbuntu however I use KOffice more than OpenOffice.

I also use Google Documents from time to time!

[gkd_uk]

A customer had an issue with a very important MS Word document and did not have a backup copy. The document was corrupt and she wanted this repairing. She was really stressed and in tears.

I downlaoded open office and opened the Open Office version of Word. I then dragged her corrupt MS Word document into the Open Office Word document which repaired the corrupt document.

She did not have to pay for any recovery software.

Quite a handy tip that might come in use for you