If you are like me, you undoubtedly used some sort of Office Suite to complete your written assignments, complicated spreadsheets, and slide show presentations for your college courses. No? Maybe you haven’t been in college recently, have you?
If you have, you know what I’m talking about. Constant hours of writing essays, spell checking them, and rewriting them again have made you a pro writer by now. So as time progressed, you knew that an imminent upgrade from Notepad was in order, and like majority of college students, professors, and academic institutions you got yourself Microsoft Office Suite. A great application, but costly nonetheless.
OpenOffice to the rescue
OpenOffice is an open source suite of products that will provide you the ability to do all you’ve been doing thus far, turning in quality assignments, but for free. Yes, you read right – FREE. OpenOffice has the ability to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Moreover, the numerous coders behind the program allowed for interoperability with the Microsoft Office suite, including the ability to save the documents in MS Office formats (.doc, .xsl, and .ppt) so your professors don’t get inconvenienced.
An additional very cool feature of Open Office is the ability to create PDF files – the ones you open with Adobe Acrobat. I use this feature to create graphical presentations, resumes, and other stuff that I would like to share on the Internet. Since not everyone has Microsoft Office, a PDF file is an easier file to open, view, and print. So, yeah… Open Office has that.
I could sell you on the benefits of OpenOffice all day, but in the end this productivity software package sells itself. So, if you are in need of an office suite, or an upgrade, you should grab a copy. Let me know if you like it.
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