Don’t have or don’t want Microsoft Office. How about OpenOffice 2.0?
OpenOffice is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
NewMexiKen has played around a little today with OpenOffice 2.0, which has word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database functions. It’s too soon for me to decide if it could replace Microsoft Office, but it’s possible and it’s free. Takes up less than half the space on the hard drive, too.
One nice feature in OpenOffice that MS Office doesn’t have yet — save your file as an Adobe PDF.
I’ve been using OpenOffice since the 1.0 days, and I’ll never look back. Awesome program, fully portable to MS Office file types (including “Save As .doc” capability for those that haven’t yet seen the light), and completely freeware.
It is truly all that and a pot of coffee.
This Open Office looks good. I like the Impress program and the word processor looks pretty good too.