Bizpro Ltd - Virtual Assistants » MS http://ukvirtualassistant.co.uk Virtual Assistant helping you to work smarter Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:01:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MS Office versus OpenOffice? http://ukvirtualassistant.co.uk/ms-office-versus-openoffice/ http://ukvirtualassistant.co.uk/ms-office-versus-openoffice/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:00:59 +0000 Kerry http://www.bizpro-ltd.com/bizpro-blog/?p=72 I’ve always been a real advocate of Microsoft office. It’s superior layout, ease of use and sheer ability puts it streets ahead of the competition, or so I thought until two days ago. Being a software geek, I’ve always insisted on MS office and have had the complete package installed on all of our laptops & desktops.

You can only imagine my horror when it came to setting up my new net book, it doesn’t have the memory to support such a large set of programmes so I had no choice but to look for alternatives. I’m now the proud owner of a net book with OpenOffice installed, and I am amazed! So far so good, it installed very quickly, has a lot of the functionality I would expect of MS, similar layout so the easily confused, (such as myself on a bad day), can navigate around easily enough, and the best bit of all, it’s free! Yes, completely free! I’m very impressed. Not only does my shiny new net book have a writer, it also has the software for spreadsheets, presentations, databases. What more could a busy VA want?

Of course, one of the most important things is that it’s all still compatible with MS. After shelling out for all that MS software I’m certainly not going to give it up in a hurry!

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