By the nature of things, I tend to use Microsoft Office quite a bit at work; and some while ago I got a copy for home use as well. I don’t use it all that often, but it’s sometimes convenient. Consequently, I haven’t paid a lot of attention to OpenOffice. However, there’s one significant thing that OpenOffice has that MS Office does not: A drawing app. And, in fact, OpenOffice Draw is the only drawing tool I’ve found for Mac OSX that’s a free download and possibly worth using. Once in a while I find I want to draw a diagram of something, Ã la Tom at Disputations; now, perhaps, I’ll be able to do so.
I was quite pleased when I discovered that OpenOffice has a PDF-export option built right in.
Of course, when I’m looking at Office software for Linux, there isn’t much else…though the Gnumeric spreadsheet program is pretty good competition as a spreadsheet, it isn’t an office suite.
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