What is the "catch" for using open office?

Question

Is it as good as ms office?

Answer 1

There is no catch. OpenOffice is a wonderful office suite. I've been using it for about four years now. I create documents at home in OpenOffice, save them as Microsoft Office documents (xls, doc, ppt) and send them to work. At work they open in their Microsoft Office equivalent just fine. I guess there are a few "gotcha's":

1. The macros are not compatible. Microsoft uses Visual Basic to create the macros for Microsoft Office. OpenOffice uses something like VB, but not VB.
2. They figured most of the advanced features in MS Office are used by a very small percentage of the users so they left them out. (Do you REALLY need Animated Text?)

Bottom line is that OpenOffice just works. Another advantage for OpenOffice is that it works the same whether you are running it on Windows or on Linux. There isn't a Linux version of MS Office.

Answer 2

There is no catch, it really is just free. However, it does not have all of the features that MS office has and it does not open up some of the advanced features in an Office document. One advantages is Open Office saves Word documents in the PDF format without plug-ins

Answer 3

I heard someone once say that if you try to use it on a PC that already has M$ Offi¢e there will be some sort of conflict like things disappearing because the M$ Offi¢e doesn't like the Open Office or something,
other than that no "catch" that I'm aware of

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Answer 4

many online reviewer have voted for open office cause it's free. it does just as many things as ms office.

Answer 5

There is no catch. its free. you dont have to pay anything.

It does not have all the features of msoffice. however, it does come pretty close and is highly compatable with msoffice file formats. Its really _the_ next best thing to msoffice if you dont want to shell out the cash it. Why not try it and see what you think?

Answer 6

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