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TOP 100 TOOLS
OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a free office suite of tools to
install on your desktop to create documents,
spreadsheets and presentations. It is compatible
with MS Office, so you can read and edit existing
Word,
Excel
and
PowerPoint documents in it.
You can also convert your materials into PDF files
for free. OpenOffice docs can also be read in
Google Docs.
NOTE: OpenOffice can be used as a hosted service at
Ulteo.
Comments from those who selected OpenOffice as one of
their Top 10 Tools in 2008
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"Although I have had
OpenOffice
installed on my computer for some time, I have
tended to continue to use Word and PowerPoint, but I
have been using it
more and more later as I really like some of the additional functionality it
offers me. For instance it is so easy to create PDFs
from within it, and convert
presentations to Flash."
Jane Hart
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"50% of my job consists of writing. Although I
like to use
Kile
for larger texts, I find Writer indispensable for letters and
other short texts. Exporting to PDF is only one button away and
it reads and writes most office formats. Impress is a bit
crude, but it good enough to author a presentation and manage
its slides. I then use
KeyJnote for
the presentation itself which uses stylish 3D effects and great
thumbnail zooming."
Hans de Zwart
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"The open source office suite which helps me
redacting reports and papers as well as creating presentations,
graphs and so on."
Guy Boulet
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"I don't use Open Office often, but it does a
great job of converting Powerpoints to PDF format for putting on
the website." Don
Simmons
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"A wonderful office suite that has seen a lot of
growth and improvement since I first started using it."
Robert Chapman
Comments from those who selected
OpenOffice as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
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"I've
been using the free and open source OpenOffice for
so long that I don't remember the other office
suites. It saves in multiple formats, including MS
.doc, .xls and .ppt, and exports to Flash or PDF
with a single click."
Harold Jarche
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"Mainly because it is not a Microsoft product and the
fact that it is absolutely free. Not only can it open
and save MS Office file formats, it also allows to save
to PDF. It even includes a nicely featured drawing
application."
Guy Boulet
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"The great thing on
OpenOffice is that the windows version is exactly the
same as the Linux version. It doesn't matter on which
system you are."
Tim
Schlotfeldt
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"Especially
for producing PDF-files from Office-documents."
Wilfred
Rubens
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"Impress - better than Powerpoint, and exports to Flash"
Nick Hood
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"A good, open source,
suite of office tools. It is Microsoft Office compatible
and it is free."
David Delgado
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"For writing, collating, preparing presentations,
tracking, reporting – online and offline – I still
haven’t found a way to avoid these tools"
Andrea Barrett
"Would
definitely recommend beginners use
OpenOffice.org Writer instead (of Word)"
Michael Chalk
"I have gotten
personal thank you notes from students for introducing them
to Open Office.org!"
Susan Quinn
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