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Uryoces · 11-06-2003, 08:55 PM

I have Office XP installed because I support it at work, but I have OpenOffice 1.1 installed and Abiword. Abiword's perfect for word processing and fairly lightweight. OpenOffice is a pretty good replacement for MS Office. Most of the training material from work, and the sample files from them work just fine in OO, with out too much of a learning curve.

The big difference I've noted is that in MS Office you can format a paragraph, or frame, or a picture with a certain drop shadow or formatting, what have you, and you can use the formatting paintbrush to copy that formatting to a new object.

In Open Office, the focus is on styles. You have to define a style for your paragraph, frame, picture, and then apply it from the styles list. It depends which method you like best. I can use either one; they both get the job done.

edit: Oh yeah, I like the icons in abiword. The Newest Linux version of OpenOffice has that style as well. It's a little easier to look at and not as bland.

11-06-2003, 08:55 PM	#8
Uryoces 2nd Covenant, yo Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Pugetropolis Posts: 583	I have Office XP installed because I support it at work, but I have OpenOffice 1.1 installed and Abiword. Abiword's perfect for word processing and fairly lightweight. OpenOffice is a pretty good replacement for MS Office. Most of the training material from work, and the sample files from them work just fine in OO, with out too much of a learning curve. The big difference I've noted is that in MS Office you can format a paragraph, or frame, or a picture with a certain drop shadow or formatting, what have you, and you can use the formatting paintbrush to copy that formatting to a new object. In Open Office, the focus is on styles. You have to define a style for your paragraph, frame, picture, and then apply it from the styles list. It depends which method you like best. I can use either one; they both get the job done. edit: Oh yeah, I like the icons in abiword. The Newest Linux version of OpenOffice has that style as well. It's a little easier to look at and not as bland. __________________ The party's over ... the drink ... and the luck ... ran out. Last edited by Uryoces; 11-06-2003 at 08:58 PM.