A Free Microsoft Office? by John McILwraith
If your budget is limited and you need a full features Office suite, we know of one that has got everything you might conceivably need. The deeper question, is whether anyone will ever need all of these features. It's nice to know that a FREE Office Suite of applications has probably more to it... With Open Office the Free Microsoft Office Clone you do not need Microsoft Office (legal or otherwise) to be able to receive and create Word, Excel, Power Point, and Front Page documents. ... Open Office (The Free Microsoft Office Clone) is helping many people and small businesses to be liberated...

Why My Office Files Do Not Open? by Nehaa Gupta
While working on MS Office, there may be situations when you click and try to open up an office file, it does not open. After this you try the Open With option to open the required file and the file gets opened in other program rather than its respective program. ... The Solutions: Option 1: Repair the Office or Office Program: While repairing the Office program, the correct file association will be performed with the respective office program, to repair the Office program follow these steps: First of all, close all the running Office programs and turn off any running...

Free PDF Publishing Software by Ed Zivkovic
In a previous article , I wrote about OpenOffice which an excellent suite of Free Office software which is in the Public Domain. What I did not know is that the Writer (word processing) program creates PDF files too. I have uninstalled MS Word because OpenOffice opens all my old Word... How To Create a PDF File for Free After OpenOffice is installed, open any Word document or create a new document with the OpenOffice Word processor. ... In my opinion, OpenOffice has the best Office software and now with this latest version, the best Free PDF creation software too.

Word Processing Office Suite by John McILwraith
You need to have a word processor period. Each and every computer user needs one. It is like sugar in the pantry, you just have to have it on hand. At least I have never in my over Ten years in the I.T. field met some one that did not need a word processor at one time or another. ... For some there is no choice but to have an Office Suite such as Microsoft Office or Open Office. ... When it comes to an office suite Open Office is the obvious choice for its openness, compatibility, reliability, flexibility and low cost.

Create A Flash Presentation For Free With Open Office by Steve Howson
The intentions of this short tutorial are not to teach you how to use Open Office, but rather to show you a quick and dirty way to create presentations and tutorials that can be exported as a Macromedai Flash file. What is Open Office? It is a free, open source, cross platform office suite that... Using Open Office Presentation - Basically, if you've ever used Microsoft Powerpoint, you've pretty much used Presentation. ... That's it.. ... Select the format, pick your location, name the file and press the Save button.

Small Business Software by Elizabeth Morgan
Small business software is a booming industry. Nowadays, every type of business needs to manage its movements and record every action using computer software. Business software is designed to help with the administration and maintenance of a business. ... The difference is that Open Office is free while MS Office (Microsoft Office) costs a considerable amount of money for a small business. ... One of the simplest ways for a business to start operating using computer software would be to use the free Open Office suite of applications, which is similar to MS Office.

Free Alternative To Microsoft Office by Jim Edwards
Anyone who ever priced the Microsoft Office Suite knows it represents a significant investment. A quick check of the CompUSA.com website shows Microsoft Office Standard costs $399 and Microsoft Office Professional will set you back $449. Now, this doesn't discount the value of the software. ... Though it does represent an excellent alternative to expensive office software suites, Open Office is not without a few drawbacks. ... Open Office also offers a free version for Macintosh computers. ... The Open Office software publishes in the Open Document Format to make data universally available...

Is There Any Future For The Open Document Format? by Gavin Peters
For those people out there who have not heard of the Open Document format (ODF), please allow me to try and explain it in layman's terms. The ODF is an attempt to produce an Open format that all office documents could save to, a universal standard that all office packages can use. ... This office suite is available for free but you have to ask yourself the question, why are companies not using an office package that is free, surely it would save businesses a lot of money. ... The main problem is Microsoft, as nearly all businesses use Microsoft Office and Microsoft have no plans to support...

How to Make Your Own PDF Easily by Krzysztof Sroka
If you are an internet marketer sooner or later you will need to learn how to make your own PDF. I have just learned how to do this for free and easily. First, you might ask why you need to make your own PDFs? There are different reasons. First, by writing and giving away your own e-book you can... Second, install it and open the Open Office writer program. ... First, download free but very good “Open Office” from http://www.openoffice.org/. ... Fourth, when your content is ready, click on the “file menu” in Open Office, and then click “export to pdf.” Next choose where you want to save...

Looking for an Alternative to Microsoft Office? You Should Be! by Greg Diehl
Now is the time to look at an alternative to Microsoft Office. Are you locked into using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint? Are you spending extra because you need a database, and Access does not come with the basic Office package? Well, the time has come to look at alternatives, or at least... o runs on Windows (R), just like Microsoft Office o all files can be saved in Microsoft Office formats o a word processor o a spreadsheet o a presentation tool o a database o a drawing tool o export to Acrobat PDF format (requires third-party add ins to do this in Microsoft Office) o...