Friday, November 18, 2005

Who needs Microsoft Office anymore when there is OpenOffice?

I finally decided to give OpenOffice a try since the major 2.0 release in October. I must say, I am impressed! The overall look and feel has changed drastically! I last used OpenOffice with FreeBSD about a year or two ago. At first glance I thought I was still using Microsoft Office with a few tool-bars missing.

I am almost tempted to de-install Microsoft Office, but I will wait a few months to make sure I do not have any incompatibility issues with Office documents. The best feature I like about OpenOffice is the ability to Export to PDF right out of the box! It exported just about all the MS Office documents to PDF fabulously with ease. This my friend is impressive. I am just waiting for the ability to edit the PDF's I open as well.