Decided to try OpenOffice because I've already done some work with Google Docs. The download took longer than expected. Some advantages: it's free and the updates are free, looks very similar to MS Office, if you use MS Office on a regular basis it shouldn't take long to learn the in and outs of the program, liked the different templates it had for its presentations, you can go to file and then export your documents to a pdf file (one of my favorite features - no muss no fuss), under file, new, you can choose a new word, database, presentation, spreadsheet, etc. document (don't have to leave Word to go to Draw or any of the other applications), and you can open MS Office documents with this program.
Disadvantages: worst of all I saved some documents and MS Office would not open them(so I'm concluding that OpenOffice would need to be installed on any computer where these files would be used, majority of people use MS Office-sharing documents would be difficult, I thought that it was a bit slower than MS Office, help feature not as easy to use as that of MS Office (was trying to add a background in draw and never found the help I needed), and it's not as slick and polished.
I do think it is amazing that this is freeware - powerful, so much like MS Office, and it's free! Can you imagine the possiblities if more people were using it?
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