Strategy: OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Works
6 Keywords: Microsoft Works, Works, Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Database, Calendar
I never had Microsoft Office on my computer so had to use Microsoft Works but recently I have downloaded Open Office and found this to be much better with many options such as highlighting and word prediction. It still does not always transfer documents into Word without mistakes quite like Works, but the mistakes are fewer and easier to fix. When going from Works to Word fonts or highlighting and even alignments were changed. Open Office also automatically saves documents and if you computer crashes it will ask if you wish to recover the document when you reboot.
As Works did not have a thesaurus I used to go to Dictionary.com and I have found that Open Office's thersaurus is still not as good as Word so I am still using the web site for medical words.
(There is a blog on the subject of the OpenOffice word prediction and how to get it to work)
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"I email it [an assignment] to the tutors, but because on my computer I only have Microsoft Works and the university has Office. I get about 50 emails saying ‘We can’t open that!’. Also, I don’t have Powerpoint on my computer. I can read, open and see it, but I can’t change anything."
- StaceyTip
OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas for those who may have downloaded this free Office suite
