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Posted by wil5on on Thu Feb 24th at 7:11am 2005

Fairly recently I had to reinstall windows, which forced me to reinstall my apps. Now, when I get around to MS Office, it says I've used up the activation limit for my copy (which is legal, ffs). I've had it up to *here* with this activation s**t, so can all you in the know please suggest either alternatives or some sort of workaround for MS.

Any alternative has to have word processing, spreadsheet and support for MS office files. I've heard of Open Office, is there a winxp version of it?

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Posted by fraggard on Thu Feb 24th at 7:19am 2005

http://www.OpenOffice.org

It seems to support most ms-office formats, and yes it has a windows version.

I don't know how it behaves on windows, but it's slow as hell on any linux machine I've seen so far. That's something you need to consider.




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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Feb 24th at 7:26am 2005

i got out voted last time. stay away from easy office.

i still use it and find it perfectly satisfactory. much preferable to MS office, which i have a legal copy of as well... to each their own as they say :/

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Posted by wil5on on Thu Feb 24th at 8:02am 2005

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Posted by Crono on Thu Feb 24th at 8:07am 2005

I use OpenOffice, but no one else does
Not that it's THAT big of a deal, but it's annoying when you have to say ... send a resum? twice because they demand you use word without specifying it before hand. (bastards)

There are some other useful programs. Such as, if you need to write some documents regarding math, physics, logic, whatever, anything like that you should look for a TeX program. There's much newer GUI versions like MikeTex. Plus, All Tex versions have much higher detailed fonts, thus print outs are clearer.

I believe there's Windows builds floating around.

Just extra information, if you ever wondered. It is in no way a replacement for an office suite (unless you just use "text documents" then it very well can replace word or openoffice text) [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Thu Feb 24th at 3:05pm 2005

You could *ahemgetaserialoracrack* for MS Office [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Feb 24th at 4:12pm 2005

OpenOffice is pretty nice. [addsig]



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Posted by wil5on on Thu Feb 24th at 10:23pm 2005

I wouldve done that Otz, but I dont like going around warez sites generally (windows firewall probably cant protect me well enough) and I never liked the MSO interface to begin with. [addsig]



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Posted by willow on Thu Feb 24th at 10:57pm 2005

I use Open Office, and I love it. You need to keep in mind tho, it's uses Java. Open Office reads and saves in all microsoft formats. It's free and it's very nice. Can't go wrong with it.
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Posted by SaintGreg on Fri Feb 25th at 1:41am 2005

I use open office too after checking it out in the last thread of office programs and I really like it. Though I've only used the word processing. Seems like it takes quite a while to load and save though.
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