Anyone here use Open Office? Please share your experience.

[raccoon]

I intend to download it but I haven't yet.

While we're at it, a co-worker promotes Libre Office. Anyone had experience with that?

[Pharaoh]

1. Fabulous

basically a free clone of microsofts

http://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/ms-office-vs-openoffice

[randr]

2. I support and use many open source programs

Have Open installed on my PC, Mac, and android.
Love it, has file conversion tools that never fail, lots of free templates, etc.

[nonoyes]

3. After 2 years of use, no problems

Of course, my needs are quite simple and general, but it does the job, converts and reads MS Word files, etc.

No complaints.

[woodsprite]

4. We use Open Office at home

They were using it in the school my daughter attended, so we installed it to have the same thing on our system. Up to that point, I had been running WordPerfect. Now that my son is in a school where they use Microsoft products, we haven't had any issues whether it's reading something a teacher gives him or him saving in a format his teachers can use or display. There have been a few slide presentations that he had to pick a different background when he switched between OO and MS, but other than that, it's been great.

I'm pleased that I've been able to stick to my word that I would not install any additional MS products on my home PC than came with it. Other than patching Windows and updating IE, after 10 yrs, so far, so good.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. Works well

Libre Office is considered the better of the two my many

[hobbit709]

6. Libre Office is the successor to Open Office after Oracle bought out Sun.

[pokerfan]

7. I've used it at home for the last five years

Ever since I lost the keys to my MS Office. Didn't miss it. It was beginning of my complete embracing of Free software...

Libre Writer (word processing)
Libre Calc (spreadsheet)
GIMP (photo editor)
PdfEdit (create edit pdfs)
Calibre (convert & manage ebooks)
Stellarium (planetarium)
Firefox & Chromium (web browsers)
Audacity (edit audio)
Pitivi (edit video)
DeVeDe (DVD authoring program)
FFMPEG (convert media files)
VLC (media player)
Foobilliard, GNU Backgammon, Sauerbraten (games)

And of course, Linux, though most Free doftware will run on other operating systems. Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[AgingAmerican]

8. I have used it for years.

I have set it up for others too. Ususlly when I set it up I make it so text documents are automatically saved in the word format. That way their documents go seamlessly between MS word and Open office.

I used it through four years of college, no problems. Mainly used Writer (word) and Presentation (PowerPoint) for classes. Now I use it at home and my daughter uses it for her college classes.

Works awesome.

[RoccoR5955]

9. I've been using it for eons.

I send my reports to my boss in his Excel format, and documents in Word format, and he doesn't know that I am even not using the Mickeysoft garbage!

[Old and In the Way]

10. It's OK...

my biggest complaint is that it doesn't have an equivalent to MS Outlook. I use it primarily on my home machines for their Excel equivalent. It's not quite as as convenient as MS Excel, but it's probably because I'm used to the MS Excel's shortcuts and haven't really learned the Libre Office equivalents. I've had some issues updating their software...it's a bit of a pain and I have to download the entire program, even if it's simply an update.

[CPX7700]

11. A good program

Open Office and Libre Office are both solid office programs, they are every bit as good as MS Office without the stupid bloat and extra features.

[Phillip McCleod]

12. i've use open office, libre office and neo office (mac 's version) for years..

now it's microsoft office that annoys me because it's not quite like libre office, not the other way around.

i have also done quite a bit of graphics/layout work over the decades and recently switched entirely to the gimp (instead of photoshop), scribus (instead of indesign) and inkscape (instead of illustrator). each is powerful enough that yeah, there's a learning curve. last but certainly not least i use gnucash (instead of quickbooks) when it's time to get paid and pay the bills.

but more importantly to me, because i climb learning curves for fun, is this part: 'each is powerful enough'

actually the gimp compares favorably to photoshop once you get the knack. libre office however simply leaves ms office in the dust for me. it does what i ask it to not what microsoft programmed the damn paperclip to do.