Yes, I've used it on and off for many years. I believe it became "Open Office" in 2000 or 2001 when Sun acquired a product that I think was called Star Office.
Is it a good product? Well, for a free product, it's excellent. As competition for something like Office, it doesn't hold a candle--especially the word processor. The word processor, to me, is a souped up version of Wordpad. One nice feature is it can export documents as PDFs. OpenOffice "can" open Office documents, but notice I put the word "can" in quotes. It doesn't render them very well. I used OpenOffice quite a bit a few years ago, then jettisoned it for its lack of features. Then just last week, I decided to download it and try it again, but after just about 30 minutes, I canned it. It might be a great product for people with more basic needs. In my work I have to write very complex documents, and OpenOffice just isn't good enough. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:40 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: OpenOffice.org from Sun.. ** Has anybody used this tool OpenOffice.org? How long has it been around? I just got a link to download it while updating java on my laptop to download it for free. Its description sounds good and I'm tempted to try it out. This is the link.. http://java.com/en/download/javacom_update.jsp Joe D'Souza __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
