Good evening Recently, I downloaded and installed OpenOffice 3.2 plus a few extensions. Installation of those extensions took me to the Oracle website, where I learned about Star Office (priced at about 35 USD).
Here is the situation: * I make most of our living on translation (freelance, in Japan). * About 99.8% of the companies I work for, send me MS files: Word, Excel, sometimes PowerPoint - and naturally expect to get those MS files back. * Yet, I do NOT like MS and WANT to get away from it. * I have used - not really intensively - OpenOffice in the past. So far, so good. * I have to be able to use English, German (both preferrably including spell checking etc.) and Japanese. * So far, OpenOffice allows me to do that. Now, would there be any advantage of purchasing the commercial version of StarOffice over OpenOffice? Mainly with the purpuse of "getting away from Microsoft" while retaining the ability to handle MS files. The website naturally just describes how wonderful the software is (which is not really helpful), so I thought I ask the learned people on this list for opinions and maybe advice. The price is low enough for an "experiment", but I still would like to ask before buying ... Thank you in adavance. Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
