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Switching Office Suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 25, 2008

[ Thanks to Roland
for this link. ]

“You’ve been thinking about it for a while. You’ve seen the PDF
converter and sighed longingly; you’ve blushed before the skeptical
glances of your open-source and anti-Microsoft friends who say
‘You’re still using Microsoft Office?’ You’re looking at your
budget and wondering why you would pay to get Microsoft Office
2007. And you’ve received Word 2007 files and haven’t been able to
open them, so you know there’s going to be some file format issues
no matter what you do.

“But you haven’t switched over to OpenOffice.org. Quite
yet…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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