open office vs ms office........................?  

Open Office is more flexible than MS office and It has a built in PDF export feature too.

I disagree with cnetboss. OpenOffice supports more file formats than MS Office, but they miss the point. Being "universal" is great, but there are separate freeware tools for that. MS Office is more "functional."

When I'm using Excel (Calc) for example, sometimes I'll be selecting gradients to color in a cell. Unfortunately, Calc doesn't offer 24 million colors, it offers 91. :( I'm happy to say I can color the edges of a cell separately in Calc now, but it takes more work than Excel.

I did not test all the options of the both packages, only Word and Excel. My prepferences stay with MS. For example, MS Excel can handle bigger files (up to 10 MB), which I could not even load with Open office. Open Office, however, has one huge advantage - it is free of charge.

lol. This question doesn't even need to be asked. openoffice can't compare with microsoft office's feature list. Microsoft office is much more powerful than openoffice. But when you put price into the equation... openoffice seems more attractive than microsoft office. Because it's free. I use microsoft office because it's easier to use in my opinion.

I would prefer to use Microsoft Office. I have been using it for many times since high school. I have tried using openoffice.org when I tried to open an excel sheet using calc from openoffice, there were a lot of cells that has formulas that has been changed and not interpreted well.

hi hempindia,

how's your day?

anyway, of course, it is ms office.. it is easier, more user friendly and more superb functionality.

just a little info,according to Wikipedia.org, A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions.

for more info bout this...

here's a link for you..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

thanks for posting and sharing this....

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