Topic: Opening documents in their own windows ?

[measter]

and you won't have to retype your spreadsheets cause open office will open and save in the same format as excel. overall openoffice is a much better program.

[Tony]

Ignore the three monitor setup, if I can get docs to open in seperate winows on one monitor, they will transfer to any other monitor.

Right, in Openoffice, you can do just that, so I reckon MS Office XP Pro will also do it. That said, I may just change over to OpenOffice if I cannot find out how to do it in MS Office XP.

[measter]

you should change anyway. 1 67mb(thats a guess) download and install and your ready to go

[Tony]

Measter I downloaded it this morning, and it looks fine, and does the seperate window thingy.

Just think, all that money I spent on MS Office XP Pro.....what a waste  

Now that was good work on your part Measter, but think on, now that you have access to the "Danger Zone"............don't be spending to much time in there.........as it can addle your brain......there's worse things than going blind you know  

[measter]

[Simon]

Let us know what you think of Open Office after you've given it a test drive, Tony.  I've just updated to MS Office 2003.  I say updated, rather than upgraded, because it's basically the same as Office XP, with a new coat of paint.

[measter]

buying office is a waste of money

[Simon]

I totally agree, Measter.  

[Adept]

I have Office 2003 on my laptop. Outlook 2003 is a vast improvement on older versions, but Word and Excel don't seem that different to me

I've been using OpenOffice off and on for months now. There are some aspects of it which are different to MS Office, but not enough to justify the price of Office.

Lets face it 90% functionality and none of the cost. Which are you going to choose?

[Tony]

Simon I reckon Adept's post sums it up nicely, and in any case, Word and Excel spreadsheets are all I use basically, oh and Frontpage as my html editor. And they are all well catered for in OF.

[Simon]

I actually found Outlook 2003 a little 'busy', but I can see it's merits for more of a 'work' environment, which, after all, is what it's designed for.  I also mainly use Word and Excel.

[Adept]

I actually found Outlook 2003 a little 'busy'

I absolutely hated Outlook 2003 last week when I first got it, I thought it was garish, but having used it it is really growing on me.

Some of the new features really come into their own in a Windows 2003 server network. I'm not sure I'd use it at home - even if I could afford it

[chorleydave]

Out of interest, is it possible to run both Open Office and Microshaft Office on the same PC, or do they conflict?

[Tony]

Dave I have'nt noticed any conflict.

OK because Open Office was loaded last, It has become default text, spreadsheet, and html web page maker. But all MS Office components can be used by going Start>Programs> to whatever MS component you want, or you could use desktop icons or the MS toolbar.


Mind you, with MS Office XP Pro at 248MB and OpenOffice at 144MB, it's a lot of space taken up to do virtualy the same job.