OpenOffice…

I’ve been looking for a “free” alternative to Microsoft Office 2007 for general work on my laptop. I decided to try out OpenOffice which l know is installed on my Ubuntu linux partition. Theres a windows version which installs pretty quickly and with no problems on Windows 7 – l use Windows 7 64bit Home Premium on my laptop. You can download openoffice from here, and join in the currently over 100 million downloads so far tally.
Much to my surprise, l found out that l could open Word 2007 documents, as well as create PDF files from OpenOffice with no problem. Even Word 2007 has an option for saving your documents in the open document format. Now l can create word 2007 documents at my office, save these and reopen them on my laptop without worrying about data lose during conversion or between these 2 different programs. I’m probably going to be installing OpenOffice on any relatives computer l set up!