Alternatives to MSOffice

[insane_alien]

Are there any freeware alternatives to Microsoft office that are at least comparable. My copy of Microsoft Office has suddenly decided its an illegal copy after a year of use.

[doG]

http://www.openoffice.org/

[MulderMan]

yea id say openoffice is the best free/opensource alternative to ms office. there are a couple others but they arnet as great. plus you can open and create ms office files.

[insane_alien]

thanx your a life saver

[ecoli]

I got MS Office 2003 free through my university. If you at a school or company, they may have a deal through there.

[insane_alien]

i'll look into it but this open office is just as good.

[Klaynos]

openoffice.org is easily the best alternative to ms office imo there is infact no point to buying ms office...

[PhDP]

It's not as user-friendly as Open Office, but there's also LaTeX, it's free and it's the best program if you are writting lots of equations.

[Klaynos]

It's not as user-friendly as Open Office, but there's also LaTeX, it's free and it's the best program if you are writting lots of equations.

 

OOo (openoffice.org) has an implementaion of LaTeX for equation editing, it is extreamly good.

[1veedo]

OpenOffice isn't my favorite. I'm assuming this is for Windows but KOffice is just as good is OO and is "lighter".

 

For some reason there's an annoying crash problem with OO though I'm probably only one of the few that have it: Never post text from science forums that go over a

, signiture line, and the very fist character...In fact, never post ANYTHING into OO! You have no idea how many times it hadn't been autosaved (10 minuits) and then froze up.