[Web4lib] OpenOffice

[jimm wetherbee]

Jane Frasier wrote:
> Is anyone using this on staff computers? We are poised to buy licenses
> of MS Office 2007 and someone in our organization suggested using this
> instead. 
Our library lab (as the campus in general) uses Office 2007 and most of 
the staff here hates it. I use OO on my office computer and am quite 
happy with it (but will have to add Office 2007 to my computer 
eventually just so I can answer patron's questions better).  Word 
Processing and Spreadsheet are (IMHO) the strongest part of the OO 
suite.  It really depends how invested you are in the Microsoft suite.  
For instance, we are on Voyager and so must use Access in one of the 
modules.  You may also find that some of the formatting will not 
translate well from Office 2003 to OO.  The latter can range to slightly 
annoying to downright painful.  I am also unsure how well OO translates 
Microsoft's new *x format. 

Since it's free, there should be no harm in downloading it and seeing 
for yourself.

--jimm

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