

Plus, try to think about how much you spend for Microsoft Office compared to what you are going to spend for Apache OpenOffice.

I think it's worth your time, and I'm very happy that we did that research.

Pros: I've been using Open Office Writer and Calc for years. Some features are better than features found in Microsoft Word. For example, you can add multiple columns to a table at once this is not in Word and it's very convenient and helpful feature when working on a table, and I find changing the text from all caps to no caps etc. easier for some reason in Writer although they are almost identical. Almost everything that is in Word is in Writer. Besides the options of the search function, I have never felt like there was a feature that is in Word that I needed and didn't have in Writer. In Writer, the one issue is that Search feature is very difficult to learn to use.
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If you want to do anything slightly complicated, you have to go learn specifically how to enter it and that can take some time digging online. I have never figured out how to replace two paragraph marks with one, as an example. I do like Microsoft Excel better than Calc because I find it a lot easier to figure out how to write functions using the prompts in Excel than in Calc I find trying to do more complex functions in Calc extremely frustrating and infuriating.Ĭons: This latest version has been crashing a lot.
