The Maillard Reaction
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Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
I'm moving to a new laptop and I have been surprised to learn that Open Office is no longer an Oracle project.
It seems like there are 3 open source versions competing for interest.
What would you do?
Install from your old Oracle installer? Download one of the three contenders?
I know nothing... well I'm pretty good with DAW and Photoshop... but I'm clueless about general purpose office software.
Does anyone have any helpful thoughts?
Thanks.
best regards,
mike
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NE Koda
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 09:25:40
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I've been using Libreoffice but only because it seemed to be getting a little more attention, updates, than OpenOffice. A few Linux distros seemed to have made the switch too. That led me to give it a shot.
I don't use any of the features in depth enough to give much of a comparison. Both allow me to write documents and make simple spreadsheets when needed and save in formats compatible with others. You may have greater needs for business and such.
Have you tried Google Docs? Good? Bad?
Best of luck clearing out the 'extras' from your new laptop.
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 09:34:00
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 10:28:20
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Not really an advice or the latest version.. I'm still stuck with Open Office 3.3.0 since I'm also using the LilyPond add-on library for some notation editing. Gonna stay with this version for a long time to come, to prevent any incompatibility with the LilyPond integration.
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 13:02:16
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I'm using Open Office 3.4 and really like it. I have Office 2013 and hate it.
Nuff said?
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 13:06:06
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Thanks to both of you for the info.
I just dug up my old v3.30 installer and used it.
Now I am paranoid that the old gen 6 JAVA install is some kind security hole or something.
It seems like my browsers don't see it so I guess it's ok?
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 13:12:44
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Apparently the clock gadget on my desktop is a huge security threat. I forget when I stopped caring, but it was sometime last year.
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 13:29:36
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I wouldn't know much about it but earlier in the week I installed Java 10+ to use some form of support interaction for some app I can't even recall at the moment. As soon as I did my Firefox and Chrome installs started throwing warnings... so after I was done I uninstalled that version of JAVA.
Oh yes, it was a GoPro firmware updater... that didn't work in any modern browsers anyways... so I ended doing a manual firmware update. So now I have JAVA skittles skattered through my registry.
:-S
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 14:11:55
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 17:06:59
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Libre office definitely seems to get more updates and does not seem to differ much from open office
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 18:55:08
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Still happy with Office 2010, which I got for $20. I'm not sure what additional features 2013 provides, but there's nothing I can think of that I just gotta have. Otherwise, I'm not opposed to using OpenOffice.
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/14 19:24:13
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Does Open Office or any other open source alternative have anything comparable to Outlook yet? It's the only reason I'm tied to Office. I use calendars extensively in my business and nothing else I've tried has come close to it in terms of maintaining and editing multiple calendars.
I would love to ditch it in favor of something else to escape Office. I have it synced to Google calendar which I access on my phone, but if you have any heavy calendar editing to do it just doesn't cut it (can't even copy/paste events or select multiple events).
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/15 08:17:42
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thunderbird with the lightning/calendar add-in is the closest i've found to outlook, haven't tried syncing it to google calendar (though thunderbird itself handles gmail fine)
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/17 22:25:42
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I use as my main office platform Wordperfect Office. As a backup to it I also have Libre Office. Libre is outstanding.
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Re: Which flavor of Open Office to use going into 2014?
2013/11/18 12:09:14
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FOr those wondering about Libre Office, it is a fork of Open office. The developers of open office were concerned Oracle was dropping support so they left. Orsacle abandoned Open office which is now run by Apache. Most Linux distros use Libre now.
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