Posts by Ajax McKerral

Ajax

As a contractor I use Open Office that has a very handy "Export to PDF" file menu item, that works a treat. This provides professional looking documents that can't be edited. This is great as I am rarely collaborating on documents with people.

If I need to collaborate then I can turn on track changes, save as a .doc and email it. This function is cross compatible with MS Word and works very well.

It has to be said that Open Office is not without its bugs. Particularly with dates from Excel to Open Office spreadsheets. When copied or referenced the dates are years apart.

However, instead of shaking my fist and saying a "prayer" to Bill, I shake my fist and accept that I got it free and it works pretty darn well. (Though I really wish they'd fix it)

I'm not sure the bug list is any shorter in Open Office than Ms Office. But at least it's free, in the sense of "beer" and "speech".

(For clarity's sake I'm using Neo Office on OS X)