OpenOffice

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http://www.openoffice.org/

Replaces Microsoft/Works / Microsoft/Word / Microsoft/Office? / Microsoft/PowerPoint? and can read all their file formats.

Free. Open-source. Stable. Actually works. Quite slow.

The Microsoft/Excel? interface is less clunky than OpenOffice Calc's one, but not, I concluded, sufficiently so for me to buy excel. --Angoel

I have had to used OpenOffice to recover a Microsoft/Excel? file that caused Microsoft/Excel? to crash upon opening. Definitely worth the download for that alone -- ColinT. Sadly, most offices will not consider using any software that did not cost money to use in the first instance.

: I would have thought that it's inertia (and BetterTheDevilYouKnow), and possibly reliance on 3rd-party software using DDE and OLE with MS Office. --Bobacus

Thanks for reminding me that this had reached stability. There are always SOME people who refuse to desist sending things in Microsoft/Word format. --Vitenka

: Quickie review: It installs, runs and the spellchecker seems to basically work. Which puts it in the top 1% of all office software anywhere ;) --Vitenka

Q. Is it worth upgrading to from StarOffice 5.2?

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