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I've just replaced my PC's hard drive and my Office CD has disappeared. Has anyone used Open Office with Windows? Is it any good? Is it MS Office compatible? Is it easy to install (the website is crap for the non-geek)? It's not for anything fancy, just the occasional document and spreadsheet but it needs to be able to read Word/Excel files as that's what is on my laptop.

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It works 99.99% of the time with M$ office, just a few oddities with password protected files and some macros, but apart from that it's fine. If you just want to do documents, spreadsheets, presentations and stuff then it is fine.
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I've just replaced my PC's hard drive and my Office CD has disappeared. Has anyone used Open Office with Windows? Is it any good? Is it MS Office compatible? Is it easy to install (the website is crap for the non-geek)? It's not for anything fancy, just the occasional document and spreadsheet but it needs to be able to read Word/Excel files as that's what is on my laptop.

Cheers,

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Here you go - just click on this link to get the windows download page:


download: OpenOffice.org Invitation for Contributing


That will get you an EXE which you run.

FWIW, I had a copy of Open Office 1.0.something and there were some compatibility issues with formatting in Word documents. I'm sure it's better now though, and it's free so what have you got to lose!
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Yep, I use Open Office on a Windows Laptop.

There are no problems really. You can come across a little bit of incompatibility (dodgy formatting) with some MS Office files, but it is only sometimes, the majority of them work perfectly.

If you are not using it for anything fancy with the custom programming that MS Office does, then it will do a great job.

I have a 'proper' bought and paid for copy of Office 2000 and use Open Office in preference to it.

Installation is simple, their web site looks a bit Geeky, but they soon realised that not everyone knows how to, or even would want to compile their own source. It will install just like an ordinary Windows programme. Now, if you go for the Linux version, that is a different matter Actually, for a Linux programme, it also installs pretty simply, but not as simply as the 'Click and Go' Windows version.

Go for it - It's not Beta, It's genuinely free, It works good and you can always uninstall it if you don't like it.
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Thanks for the info.
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