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Title: Open Office 2.0
Post by: GreggBz on March 19, 2005, 02:10:39 AM

WOW!
It's actually pretty nice.

I had to download it for my Windows PC at work, sometimes we buy our software and sometimes not, I did not feel to go about that so I just said no to the CD-R and choose to download Open Office.

I upgraded on my PC at home also, the linux version is just as good. Highly recomended.

Unfortunately, there is no version for Amiga OS.

Title: Re: Open Office 2.0
Post by: odin on March 19, 2005, 02:32:19 AM

Might need to give it another try then. Last time I tried it, it gave a whole new dimension to the word 'bloat' in my vocabulary.

Title: Re: Open Office 2.0
Post by: GreggBz on March 19, 2005, 02:42:40 AM

Well, the download is pretty big 97MB.
But the linux version is individual rpms that you can pick anc choose, also it loads about twice as fast as 1.1whatever.

Title: Re: Open Office 2.0
Post by: nagaflas on March 19, 2005, 03:38:45 AM

Yes, this is a pretty amazing suite of software.

In fact, I just bought a notebook that had MS Office Trial version on it. I promptly uninstalled it and replaced it with OpenOffice.org.

I would LOVE to see an Amiga port someday...

Title: Re: Open Office 2.0
Post by: SamuraiCrow on March 19, 2005, 05:06:26 PM

There's a port in the works for AOS 4 on the AmigaDev website (http://amigadev.amigaworld.net) (Although they're doing all of their discussions on a mailing list from somebody elses website.)

Title: Re: Open Office 2.0
Post by: mikeymike on March 19, 2005, 06:07:30 PM

I've been using OpenOffice since 1.0.something, and while it can be a bit slow to start up, I've had no problems with document compatibility except for the odd bizarre winmail.dat issue.

I think it's a shame that OO 2.0 has those gradient effects in the toolbars, just a pointless bell/whistle IMO.  There's a ticket you can vote on to get an option to switch it off:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40800

Title: Re: Open Office 2.0
Post by: swift240 on March 20, 2005, 02:33:49 PM

Yep downloaded it, its far better than the previous version.
Its very very good considering its FREE.  :-)  :-)