Re: Sizzling Hot Deals All: Free Software

Jill34inCA@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 6, 6:38 pm, "The Weissman" <XsteveXwei...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This list of free alternatives to expense software is taken from a broadcast
report on WNBC-TV morning news today:

Instead of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint):
Open Officewww.openoffice.org

Instead of Quark XPress/Adobe InDesign/Adobe PageMaker:
Scribuswww.scribus.net

Instead of Adobe Photoshop:
GIMPwww.gimp.org

For more info on these and many more, lookie here:http://www.sreetips.com/software.html

This is a great resource.

Steve

Open office sounds intruiguing. The only MS office program I use is
Word, but I use it to death and need new versions at times (like now.)

Is Openoffice's WORD a real similar looking and fucitoning pogram to
Word?

Can I open, edit and save MS WORD docs in Openoffice?

Is it likely that WORD-based add-ons (not by MS) such as the Script
Wizard screenwiting program which sits on top of Word and fucntions
with WOrd Menu's, etc, would work with OPenoffice?

Freedeo



Open Office will read and edit word, excel, powerpoint and access files either in its own native format or in the familiar MS flavors (.doc, ..xls, .ppt, etc).

For the most part, the user infterface is very simiar (if not identical) to the MS Office equivalents. For all but the most advanced features/formating of those applications..you'd probably never know you weren't using the MS product.


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