Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Office Replacement - I Could Have Saved Hundreds!

Microsoft Office® has become the standard for exchanging documents. Unfortunately the Office® suite can be cost prohibitive, especially if you are in business for yourself. There is a viable alternative. “Open Office” accomplishes the same thing as Excel, Word, and Power Point and transparently imports files from those packages. This software is
open source which means it is free to the end user. Open Office is supported by a loyal and strong user base. The software requires about 200mg on your hard drive. Once you install it, you will have an icon in your system tray that enables you to launch
the four applications; spreadsheet, word processor, presentations, and drawing.
This is a huge development in the global open source industry. Try it out, you will not
be disappointed. I wish I would have known about it before I forked over the dollars
for my personal copy of Microsoft Office®.

http://www.openoffice.org/



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