OpenOffice; the alternatives – Go-OO and OxygenProfessional
Lot of people know there is at least one free application which you can use in stead of Microsoft Office….; OpenOffice.
Not a lot of people do know there are also “a faster kind” and a kind which has also “the cip-arts etc.”….
Go-OO is a faster version of the OpenOffice application, it is (almost) the same as OpenOffice… but made for the “slower machines”…..
- Go-oo provides a built-in SVG import filter.
- Go-oo on Linux provides built-in 3D transitions within presentations
- Go-oo provides a powerful and interoperable fields implementation
- Go-oo starts faster: Go-oo can run in the background for a lightning second start (unix)
- Go-oo has a linear optimization solver that can optimize a cell value based on arbitrary constraints, built into Calc.
- Go-oo has improved interoperability with Excel, such as the ability to implicitly convert strings to numbers as context demands.
- Go-oo provides VBA macro support for OpenOffice.org
- and more….
Oxygen Office has more cip-art and fonts than the “normal” OpenOffice version…. the only “disadvantage” is; they are at version 2.4 – so if you are running OpenOffice 3.0 – you have “to go back in time”…
- Templates
- Cliparts with draws, photos and 3D objects
- More fonts
- Samples
- DataMiner tools for WikiPedia
- VBA macro support in Calc
- Enhanced palettes for color, hatching, gradient and other palettes
- New and updated import filters like Office Open XML (Microsoft Office 2007), Works, WordPerfect, WordPerfect Graphic, T602 import filters
- and more
Homepages; Go-OO & OxygenProfessional & OpenOffice
Thanks, I’ll try some of these out.
Am gonna try the GoOo application now since I can’t find my reg code for MS Office…. As of early Feb they added a 3.0.1.4 version