If not, OOo 2.0-and StarOffice (SO) 8-would be doomed to the purgatory of Office-also-rans, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts probably wouldn't have mandated the OASIS Open Document 1.0 format that only OOo 2.0 and SO 8 support (so far). I assume that OOo Writer, Calc, and Impress 2.0 have features that satisfy the majority-or at least a significant percentage-of Word, Excel and PowerPoint users, and can open and save documents in current Microsoft Office native formats: *.doc, *.xls, and *.ppt. I use Excel less often and PowerPoint only occasionally. The Google-Sun Microsystems non-event I discussed earlier this month had one significant side-effect: I decided to download and test-drive the current release candidate (RC2) of OpenOffice (OOo) 2.0.Īlthough I spend a substantial part of my working days in Word 2003, I don't consider myself a Word expert.
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