Folks, its back to school time all across the country. In these first few days you or your kids will find out that the home computer will need to have Word or Excel or PowerPoint or Access (all from Microsoft) installed (if its not already). Then about a day or so later you get a great shock. STICKER SHOCK that is.
Over at Office Depot, you head over to, you find Microsoft® Office Home And Student 2007 edition for $149.99. For some of you that might just be a big chunk of change. So what are you to do?
Well you could spend the $149.99 or you could use OpenOffice v2.2.1 for a whopping sum of $000.00 (that's right FREE). Head on over to OpenOffice.org and download the latest version. This application has a word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database applications wrapped in a 97megabyte download.
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." The program is easy to install and use. The best thing is that the user can save any word processing file as a Word document...and that my friends a whole lot cheaper than $150. So give it a shot.
Tags: Dave Guerra, openoffice, word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation
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