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MS Office too pricey? Here are 3 free alternatives | |
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| Time: 08:51 EST/13:51 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft Office is a great productivity suite. It may be a little much for someone who just needs a word processor, but it covers all the bases. Plus, since most everybody uses it, there's rarely a problem with sharing files. But what if you don't want to spend that much money--at least $300 for Office XP Standard--on software? Or what if you need only a word processor or a spreadsheet program, and don't want to fill up your hard drive with a bunch of extras? It hardly seems worth it to pay for the whole suite of tools if you're only going to use some of them. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 12/13/2002 10:28:22 AM |
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Three free alternatives:
- Wordpad - Notepad - EDIT.EXE |
| #2 By 9549 (63.88.169.2) at 12/13/2002 11:02:21 AM |
| If all you need is a word processor than just buy MS Word for $99.00 at most retail stores. |
| #3 By 6859 (204.71.100.217) at 12/13/2002 11:09:03 AM |
| Or hit up Ebay... COREL WORDPERFECT OFFICE 2002, $17.99+5.50S&H. Not bad considering the alternatives. It includes Word Perfect 10 / Paradox 10 / Quattro Pro 10 / Corel Presentations 10 /CorelCENTRAL 10, including day planner, calendar, and email client. |
| #4 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 12/13/2002 2:58:29 PM |
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JaggedFlame: DOH!
JWM: I'd love to see someone answer my 10% of which features do people use question. It certainly get's claimed an awful lot. |
| #5 By 3 (62.253.128.7) at 12/13/2002 4:35:22 PM |
| #4 - which reminds me to get the Works Suite 2003 review up now that I just put it on my laptop. |
| #6 By 37 (24.196.75.142) at 12/13/2002 9:31:58 PM |
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#13 sphbecker,
Works 6.0 and Works 7.0....the spreadsheet applicatoin is now in Excel file format by default (it's *.xlr instead of *.xls). People wanted this badly, so they finally made the change from *.wss. #10 JWM, I agree, but I think one person might use features 1 through 10, while another person might be using features 1, 8, 13, 97 and 1252, while another person uses features 200-600. I think everyone uses different features, and Microsoft does what they can to please everyone's requests. That is another reason why they have such an excellent custom install option. #14 Byron, I am also running Works 2003 (just because I can, and it's free :-). However there is a disappointing issue. The mail merge has been hosed since version 5.0 and still was not fixed (by that I mean that formatting from the database you merge from is lost and is a known issue). The Task Launcher is much improved with the added projects. The new Watermark feature in the Word Processor is sweet. And they fixed the Calendar printing problem that they have had since version 5.0. #7 Slip400, The problem I had with Notepad+ (at least for me) is that it didn't properly strip my formatting when pasting into notepad for use in other applications. I prefer the Windows default notepad...plus it opens pretty damn fast. This post was edited by Brian_MS_MVP on Friday, December 13, 2002 at 21:33. |
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