Office 365

[ghosthunter]

if you make the leap to free software meron talaga incompatibilities at first until you can move all your documents to f/OSS standard files.

OPENOFFICE opens MS Office documents with no issues. No need to migrate formats. It will read both DOC and DOCX formats which is better than if you are using Microsoft's own older Office products which is unable to read DOCX format.

The only thing you might want to change in OpenOffice's default settings is the default save format, especially if you send files out to other people. Set it to save in DOC/XLS/PPT instead of the OpenOffice's own document formats.

[Retz]

ang problema din minsan or kadalasan sa open office, pag ni open mo sa e.g. microsoft excel ang open office excel file, mdyo sabog ang mga text doon.

[ghosthunter]

ang problema din minsan or kadalasan sa open office, pag ni open mo sa e.g. microsoft excel ang open office excel file, mdyo sabog ang mga text doon.

The same thing happens when you are sharing the same file between different versions of MS OFFICE.... so that issue is not really a problem of OPENOFFICE.

[Retz]

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Sir gh, if different office versions afaik hindi na mag open ung file diba opening a higher version file from a lower version ms office. Pero never ko pa na encounter na sabog ung text. Anyway, observe ko ulit.

[ghosthunter]

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Sir gh, if different office versions afaik hindi na mag open ung file diba opening a higher version file from a lower version ms office. Pero never ko pa na encounter na sabog ung text. Anyway, observe ko ulit.

The answer is DEPENDS. Depends if your PCs users have agreed to save in a SINGLE WORD MS_WORD DOC FORMAT.

Example: DOC saved in Word97 format.

That makes sure that even for PC with MS WORD 2007 can create documents that can be opened by PCs with older MS WORD 97/XP. Usually the so-called format issues comes in when the document includes macros, special fonts, special paragraph layout, etc.

[Mguy]

I pay every month around P350.00 for my subscription to Office 2013, and is good for 5 computers. Currently only using 3 licenses but I plan to buy a Macbook in the future. Yes, the license covers all types of OS, even the Ipad.

[foresterx]

never really tried anything else but ms office, will try openoffice and see how it goes.

[ghosthunter]

I pay every month around P350.00 for my subscription to Office 2013, and is good for 5 computers. Currently only using 3 licenses but I plan to buy a Macbook in the future. Yes, the license covers all types of OS, even the Ipad.

We're using OPENOFFICE in ALL our office PCs for many years na. And it's FREE. Kinda hard to beat that deal. ;)

[Mguy]

I used OpenOffice before. But when my kids started to complain that when they do their homeworks, they cannot do it quickly because the school trained them to use Word and Powerpoint, I had to switch back.

I guess P350 a month for a software isn't that bad, specially now I see my kids use it to the max (and I use Excel as well since where I work uses Office as well). I had been using OpenOffice for 2 years and I like it because it is free. But after using Office 2013, its worth the money na rin. And its not much of a hassle to pay because I use my Paypal account to settle it.

[Retz]

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It looks like a MS Office but there are some interface or functions that open office doesn't have.