Apache OpenOffice

Free and opensource software that gives you quality management

Opmerkingen: I strongly recommend this software just because it is freely available for use and extension. My company has been using this software since I joined them. I was new to any software like this. But the assimilation was excellent. From academics to my professional career, Apache OpenOffice is so easy to use that the actual understanding takes no time. No formal training was required by me.

Pluspunten:

I love the point that this whole suite of project management is available for free. This feature-loaded software can compete with any paid software. New startups do not have big requirements, for them, this is a good start. Instead of paying extra for other software, We can use all the apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. for free with it. I also marked that unlike other products it does not require much RAM space.

Minpunten:

The design of this software is amazing and robust but the UI is very verbose and dull. Even with other skins, the UI is not much appealing. Users coming from Microsoft Office will face some problems with mouse gestures. Also, cloud-based editing is missing here.

A great alternative to Microsoft

Pluspunten:

Easy to switch from Microsoft Word and not get lost. Functionality is basically the same.

Minpunten:

Moving documents from Word to OpenOffice always ruins the formatting. Essentially, you have to start in OpenOffice and finish here unless you have extra time to reformat everything.

Apache OpenOffice - The best productivity

Opmerkingen: Excelent experience, for me Apache OpenOffice is the best alternative to Microsoft Office

Pluspunten:

Easy and quick to use, easy and fast installation

Minpunten:

Sometimes the compatibility with complex microsoft office files is difficult

A good offer for the low budget productivity group that can sacrifice real time collobration

Opmerkingen: Challenging with end user changing over from the popular and well know and enshrined system into a new system will be the greatest challenge in this experience.
It may last as much as 2 year ....
Change management is key.

Pluspunten:

It is open source, low cost and highly capable! Open Office meets the requirement for any business team that wished to adopt document management software - Document generation, Spreadsheets, Presentation and even Database management - available for free or close to free, with no strings attached. This package delivers value to any team and has several similar feature to populate and leading packages eg. MS Office. Additional benefits includes the easy of obtain this software online, downloading and installing is easy both on Windows and MAC/Apple. The system works excellent, and file formats are compatible with Google docs and MS Office, providing useful ways for working.

Minpunten:

Main drawback is based on lack of real time sharing in the software. This will be a big requirement but today such drawback will be seen by many as a no no. However, in my case, team member uses the popular drop box for sharing and collaboration and this work great for sharing files across the organization and having an organized form of file collaboration, via web or desktop. So with an investment into a sharing platform eg. GDrive or Dropbox, one can have some good collaboration for open office files.

An Open Source tool for the office

Opmerkingen: It allows me to work on personal and work projects without having to buy professional software, but I'm not sacrificing quality and I can share my docs everywhere without having to worry I'll lose my work.

Pluspunten:

I use it for personal and work reasons and I find it very intuitive and easy to use. The thing I like the most is the fact that you can easily convert your doc into PDFs or other formats, or put it into a Google Sheet, and you won't lose a single word or have to rewrite it.

Minpunten:

I find the synonym suggestions and grammar corrections weak; sometimes the tool doesn't recognize a word that exists. And sometimes I'm looking for some synonym suggestions and there aren't, so I have to look elsewhere.