OpenOffice - a review

August 17, 2007

I got a new laptop last weekend, and since I didn’t want to shell out money for Microsoft Office I downloaded Open Office. This freeware package has programs simlar to the Microsoft suite, and can even open your Microsoft documents.

So far I’ve only used “Write” and I think it’s going to work. I was worried that it might be too different from Word. It pretty similar. It has an annoying “auto-suggest” function that I eventually figured out how to turn off (Tools, AutoCorrect). It wanted to turn every word I wrote into something different for me.

My other problem is that I’m having to teach the dictionary a lot of words it should know. It just told me that “flyers” was spelled wrong. I’m sure this problem will reduce as I use it more.

It will even let you save your material in Word if you need to send material to someone that way. I can still open all of my old Word files, and I can open Word docs from other people as well.

If you need a good Word processor, it gets my thumbs up!

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