Paulga
Member
Open Office 2.4 Freeware
A fully fledged office application suite complete with word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation graphics program, for Windows 2000, windows XP, and Vista,
size 113mb
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2128963/openoffice
Paulga
bluhoteyes
Member
great post paulga i found this not too long ago i think on here and have loved it i do appreciate your sharing it though.. great program if you are needing ms office
Quantum Dragon
Member
Great post indeed Paulga !
I'm just adding a few details to it.
The official base for the software is : http://www.openoffice.org/
There is a forum at : http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/
You can download it in many languages here : http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US
You have a USB portable version here : http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
You can find an alternative (but still free) version called OxygenOffice Professional which contains more extras like templates, cliparts, samples, fonts and VBA support here : http://ooop.wiki.sourceforge.net/
Note: http://portableapps.com/ has many other USB portable programs !
@guest32 : Ms office is too costly for " le commun des mortels (common mortals) " and depending of the version, is incredibly bloated. Which Lotus suite are you talking about ? The latest one from Lotus/IBM is based on OpenOffice !
Ciao for now ... ;)
Linuxchix0r
Member
I have recently seen this one Fifth Element
http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2008/05/26/free-windows-productivity-suite/
Its free and has even more things then Open Office. I have not tried it yet though.
Quantum Dragon
Member
Ssuite (cq) Office's The Fifth Element (Yes, "Ssuite" is spelled correctly, and, no, we're not talking about a Bruce Willis movie.), which has come from South Africa to take on the Colossus of Redmond, is one of several suites from Ssuite. It aggressively tried to outdo Office with more features, simpler interface, and, of course, by being free !
The Fifth Element is a collection of office applications with a wider range than those in MS Office. The Fifth Element includes a browser, tools for managing LANs, holding chats and making calls using VoIP. It provides a drawing module, photo and album editors, sound recorders, and MP3 and video players. There's a search engine, a sort engine, envelope printer, encryption, and a chess game, for more than 30 programs overall. And if it's not exactly the right combination for you, Ssuite Office has several other office software packages of various complexities, all free.
For all it's breadth, The Fifth Element is shallow--and that's meant in the nicest sense. Most operations require you to go no more than a couple of clicks into a menu. The most common tasks are neatly displayed at the top levels of the screens, making for quick learning and use. The are a welcome relief from the madly swirling, morphing menus in Microsoft Office 2007.
One reason for the simplicity, over and beyond making the Fifth Element a snap to use, is that most of the programs appear to be frankenware, pieced together from publicly available code. That makes them a kludge, but they're very nice kludges.
However according to some reviews, this program is intrusive and nearly impossible to uninstall.
Others say that it couldn’t open a file that Word 2007 could and that Netsurfer was a pain, plainly said.
One reviewer on http://www.download.com/SSuite-Office-The-Fifth-Element/3640-2064_4-10801783.html?v=1&sb=1
even said :
Desktop hijacker / no uninstall format
This program was never allowed to be used as it attempted to hijack my desktop and did not provide an uninstall option.
Hijacked my desktop setting and over-rode the settings. I had to uninstall at registry level to remove program. I would not recommend this program to anyone.
Because of those concerns, this program should not be taken lightly.
For myself, I also cannot recommend this software!
If you need an office program and don’t want to pay big bucks to Micro$oft, OpenOffice is the way to go.
Of course, if that's too big for you and you just want a free open-source word processor, you can try Abiword.
Here is the link for it : http://www.abisource.com/
You can find other interesting freeware word processors and suites here : http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/productivity/fwwordprocessing.html
And freeware/open source programs of all kinds here : http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/
hope that helps
Cheers
Quantum Dragon
funkymom
Member
i'm currently taking a computer class and we are required to use MS office 2003, i have v.2002. i was wondering if anyone knew if any of these programs are compatible. compatibility is the reason we are supposed to use 2003 (that's what the computer lab uses).
i have heard really great things about open office.
i'm going to talk to my teacher about these tonight.
Quantum Dragon
Member
@ funkymom : I downloaded a Word file to help in another thread about antivirus uninstallation problems and I was able to load and read it in OpenOffice.
To all :
If you are interested in another free suite, go to this thread to learn about it : http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3400
Here are some more links :
Extensions to OpenOffice here : http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
Support for the program here : http://support.openoffice.org/
The document project is here : http://documentation.openoffice.org/
And Tutorials : http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/
Ciao
funkymom
Member
thanks for the response, quantam dragon, i appreciate it.
actually, i just returned from my class and it turns out that ms office 2002 is compatible with the 2003 version. the speech that the teacher made was geared towards 2007 users, which apparently has some compatibility issues.
so, i'm golden.
:D
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