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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: Gary_Cobb on February 02, 2006, 04:25:28 PM

Title: office
Post by: Gary_Cobb on February 02, 2006, 04:25:28 PM

Are there any good free software programs to replace Windows office?

Title: Re: office
Post by: Flame on February 02, 2006, 07:25:06 PM

Microsoft Office?

Flame

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Post by: Gary_Cobb on February 03, 2006, 12:16:09 AM

Yes, MS Office.

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Post by: Fed on February 03, 2006, 05:30:22 AM

Google for +office +alternative, there are plenty out there.
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,17699,00.asp

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Post by: Peter on February 03, 2006, 11:06:19 AM

open office 2

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Post by: Rob Pomeroy on February 03, 2006, 03:06:59 PM

As Peter said, the most credible and complete free alternative to MS Office (minus unfortunately Outlook) is OpenOffice, now in it's second version.  >Get it here< (http://www.openoffice.org)

Title: Re: office
Post by: Peter on February 03, 2006, 03:23:25 PM

The opera browser has an email client, and there is the companion to the firefox browser, called thunderbird.

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Post by: Rob Pomeroy on February 03, 2006, 03:30:30 PM

The trouble is that those email clients don't even begin to approach the functionality that Outlook offers, with integrated Calendar etc.  Plus for me it's got the best support for synchronising with my PDA - absolutely essential to my life...  Hopefully someone will eventually do a decent port of Evolution to Windows and provide a good PDA conduit...

Title: Re: office
Post by: Gary_Cobb on February 03, 2006, 04:54:15 PM

Are you saying that if you get rid of MS Office, you lose Outlook?  My understanding is Windows XP allows use of Outlook by itself.  Am I wrong?

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Post by: GX1_Man on February 03, 2006, 06:25:13 PM

Outlook Express is included with Windows. Outlook is a separate program, or obtained as part of MS Office.