I recommend OpenOffice for all users except that there are a few things it can't do.
1) It isn't brilliant at combining spreadsheets and word processor files. 2) It doesn't have all the database connectivity that Excel has 3) the word processor is bad at tables (like my cv which has loads of tables).
There are alternatives such as AbiWord (recommended by ljproven several times), but go with OpenOffice now.
PS Keep backups of all your Word files now in case you really really need to go back to the original. I don't think you will as OpenOffice reads MS Word and Excel fine but if you try to share files with other MS Office users then you might have trouble.
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Date: 2005-02-17 03:29 pm (UTC)1) It isn't brilliant at combining spreadsheets and word processor files.
2) It doesn't have all the database connectivity that Excel has
3) the word processor is bad at tables (like my cv which has loads of tables).
There are alternatives such as AbiWord (recommended by
PS Keep backups of all your Word files now in case you really really need to go back to the original. I don't think you will as OpenOffice reads MS Word and Excel fine but if you try to share files with other MS Office users then you might have trouble.
goodluck!