What is your OFFICE SUITE software?

[ghosthunter]

[SIZE="4"]What OFFICE SUITE software do you use?[/SIZE]

MS Office?

OpenOffice?

Lotus Smartsuite?

StarOffice?

WordPerfect Office?

Others?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite

[vito corleone]

-we use lotus notes for e-mail (no choice since the company owns it )
-ms office for applications

[frenchtower]

MS Office and Apple Iwork

[ssaloon]

MS Office 2007 here at our office.

[testament11]

ms office 2007 here

[ghosthunter]

We use OpenOffice in the office. Currently ver 2.2 for most computers but upgrading to ver 3.1 (for MS Office 2007 compatibility) ...

It's free and compatible to MS Office. It also works almost like MS Office (word, excel) so very little re-training is needed to use the applications like Write and Calc.

Biggest advantage is it lowers the software cost per computer (to be legal).

[Jun aka Pekto]

MS Office 2007 Enterprise on the main pc
MS Office 2008 for Mac on the Mac Mini
MS Office 2003 Professional on the wife's laptop
Sun Open Office + Mozilla Thunderbird on the remaining pc's
Neo Office and Appleworks 6 on the kid's Mac Mini

[KERSMcRae]

-we use lotus notes for e-mail (no choice since the company owns it ) ]

> same,Lotus Notes 8

-ms office for applications

> 2007

[valskie01]

lotus notes for e-mail

ms office xp

[Jun aka Pekto]

I forgot. At work, it's Office 2007.

[flakez]

at work:
lotus notes for email tapos ms office 2003

at home(desktop and laptop):
ms office portable, ininstall lang ng kapatid ko. hehe

[woohoo]

A few licensed M$ Office XP and 2007, the rest have Openoffice.org (various versions).

[ghosthunter]

I am actually surprised that there isn't more users of OpenOffice...

[Jun aka Pekto]

I am actually surprised that there isn't more users of OpenOffice...

There's only been what, 10 respondents? I use Open Office on non-work related pc's. Plus, my kid has Neo Office which counts as Open Office. Her school uses Appleworks, though.

3 out of 10 (so far) isn't bad.

[woohoo]

I am actually surprised that there isn't more users of OpenOffice...

Lack of awareness, perhaps.

In our case, once our employees realized they had no choice, they took to OpenOffice.org like kids to cotton candy.

I actually proposed only one copy of M$ Office to get more savings, but it would be me they'd always be calling to convert documents all the time (when necessary), so I pushed it up to 4 licensed copies.

As long as pirated copies of it exist, though, well, you know. :sad:

[ghosthunter]

Lack of awareness, perhaps.

In our case, once our employees realized they had no choice, they took to OpenOffice.org like kids to cotton candy.

I actually proposed only one copy of M$ Office to get more savings, but it would be me they'd always be calling to convert documents all the time (when necessary), so I pushed it up to 4 licensed copies.

As long as pirated copies of it exist, though, well, you know. :sad:

You don't need MS Office to convert documents. OpenOffice v3 can already do that for you. You can even set the default saved format to be "doc" and "xls" just to be compatible with everyone else in the world. (Look under TOOLS then OPTIONS).

[KERSMcRae]

I am actually surprised that there isn't more users of OpenOffice...

Well, since it's FREE, no advertisement, promotions or whatsover by the provider (OpenOffice.org). This is only the 3rd time I read about/used this. First, from my previous company in Makati thru our IT staff; second, from an internet shop and last, here in Tsikot Forum.

[ess]

I use OpenOffice and GoogleDocs a home.
At the office, I'm stuck with Office2003.

[woohoo]

You don't need MS Office to convert documents. OpenOffice v3 can already do that for you. You can even set the default saved format to be "doc" and "xls" just to be compatible with everyone else in the world. (Look under TOOLS then OPTIONS).

No, we *did* need it, that was circa OpenOffice.org 1.1. (5 to 7 years ago?)

Also, it wasn't just for converting, it was also to be able to open advanced Excel and Powerpoint files that just wouldn't open/show properly in OOO.

[ghosthunter]

No, we *did* need it, that was circa OpenOffice.org 1.1.

Also, it wasn't just for converting, it was also to be able to open advanced Excel and Powerpoint files that just wouldn't open/show properly in OOO.

Ah... v1 series. Yup.

We started to implement it to the office computers when v2 came out.