{"id":2162,"date":"2007-10-11T12:35:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=415"},"modified":"2007-10-11T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T17:35:40","slug":"openofficeorg-vs-microsoft-office-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/openofficeorg-vs-microsoft-office-2007.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a longtime user of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice.org<\/a>, I pay attention to comparisons between that software and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Office2007.com\">Microsoft Office<\/a>.\u00a0 The first set of reviews that I have encountered that compares Microsoft&#8217;s updated suite with the current version of OpenOffice have just been completed and posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/\">Linux.com<\/a>, and I thought it was worth passing along:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/118986\">OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Microsoft Word<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/119513\">OpenOffice.org Impress vs. Microsoft PowerPoint<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/119546\">OpenOffice.org Calc vs. Microsoft Excel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My own verdict:\u00a0 if you have a need for something that is\u00a0available only in\u00a0Microsoft Office, then that\u00a0is what you need.\u00a0 Otherwise, OpenOffice.org is a great fit, and at a much better price (free!).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a longtime user of OpenOffice.org, I pay attention to comparisons between that software and Microsoft Office.\u00a0 The first set of reviews that I have encountered that compares Microsoft&#8217;s updated suite with the current version of OpenOffice have just been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/openofficeorg-vs-microsoft-office-2007.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2982,2966],"tags":[3036,3121,4677],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-software","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-openoffice-org-writer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-yS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}