alternatives to MSword? (1 Viewer)

[killy kill]

My product key to use MSword on me new laptop is "invalid" for some reason and i can only open it so many times before it goes all 'reduced functionality' up in this bitch.

Don't have a clue about this stuff, any alternatives? Er, free alternatives, that is...

 

[magicbastarder]

open office by sun.
it's free.

 

[minka]

My product key to use MSword on me new laptop is "invalid" for some reason and i can only open it so many times before it goes all 'reduced functionality' up in this bitch.

Don't have a clue about this stuff, any alternatives? Er, free alternatives, that is...

open office?

free, seems grand for most purposes.

 

[killy kill]

cool, thanks the pair of ye

 

[Unicron]

Maybe you could try open office?

 

[jane]

I'm not being a wiseass. I use Open Office for everything and it's fine. A few bugs in the Open Office Writer, like where you can't get word counts (I just use an online word count thingy), and the dictionary and thesaurus are a bit rubbish. I'm using 2.2, but there's a 2.4 available, and some of the bugs might have been worked out. I should probably download the thing.

It's also good if you aren't too keen on the new versions of MS Word because it looks more like 97 or 2000.

I use the spreadsheet one, too, and that's also totally fine, as is the not-powerpoint.

I've had no problems with compatibility with MS word, either on Mac or PC.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

If you have MS works installed and want to get full office you need need only get the upgrade version of office not the whole shebang - might save a few quid for anyone who is considering this.

I have open office on a USB drive that I can run directly from any machine - very very handy when travelling - it has Thunderbird, Open Office, Skype and FTP client all which run directly from the USB drive leaving nothing on the machine.

 

[pete]

Open Office 3 beta is out. Not had a chance to test it yet...

Google Docs is surprisingly good too.

 

[Goff]

I have open office on a USB drive that I can run directly from any machine - very very handy when travelling - it has Thunderbird, Open Office, Skype and FTP client all which run directly from the USB drive leaving nothing on the machine.

I have MS Office 2003 on a usb drive. Works fine and dandy.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I have MS Office 2003 on a usb drive. Works fine and dandy.

Wow, I wouldn't have thought that was possible - I figured Office would be writing all sort of stuff to the registry as it installed.

 

[Gambra]

Wow, I wouldn't have thought that was possible - I figured Office would be writing all sort of stuff to the registry as it installed.

Tis Warezed. I have Photoshop running off a USB stick as well..

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

MSBattleaxe or MSFlail are both pretty good

Open Mace is a little buggy

 

[egg_]

You could use Google Apps either - pretty good word processor and spreadsheet stuff, you can save and share your docs online

 

[wageslave]

Tis Warezed. I have Photoshop running off a USB stick as well..

Jays, is that not super slow?

 

[Gambra]

Jays, is that not super slow?

Nope not at all. It's bashed down to about 100mb only.

 

[flashback]

Not really the same thing but you can make amazing looking documents in LaTeX.
Its not what you see is what you get, you have to learn an annoying markup language, but the documents it makes look great.

I use it to make my CV for instance.

 

[ITalkShite]

Not really the same thing but you can make amazing looking documents in LaTeX.
Its not what you see is what you get, you have to learn an annoying markup language, but the documents it makes look great.

I use it to make my CV for instance.

 

[pete]

Why didn't you use vi?

 

[flashback]

Why didn't you use vi?

cause I use Kile to edit my Latex stuff. And emacs to do everything else.

Heh heh. Yis can laugh all you want, shit looks deadly in LaTeX. Its not that complicated. If you have any experience with markup you'd learn it in no time. The only thing that's any way tricky is putting in pictures.

I think MS Word is fierce complicated when you are forced to fiddle about with it. I have no idea what its doing half the time.
You just have to hope that it guesses correctly what you want, which it does most of the time. But Christ help you when it doesn't. Fucking nightmare.

 

[Goff]

Wow, I wouldn't have thought that was possible - I figured Office would be writing all sort of stuff to the registry as it installed.

Do a search for thinstalled. You'll be amazed at what you can find. It's a virtual OS type thing. So you can basically make your own. Easy enough to do.

Tis Warezed. I have Photoshop running off a USB stick as well..

Yeah. It's great. Slow to load but piss fast otherwise. I use it a lot, usually when showing people how to use photoshop, which seems to be happening quite a lot lately.