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Give Microsoft the Finger - Use OpenOffice
October 9th, 2007 | 10 commentsThere are very few times when I’m so mad that I just want to put my fist through the computer screen, but last night was one of them!
I had just finished an update to my Article Marketing Ebook that I had been putting off for far too long. I was also in one of those modes where everything just seemed to flow. I’m sure you know what I mean. There are some times when it seems like I’m hitting the backspace key more than any other, but other times when I write so well I surprise myself.
To say the least I was extremely happy with the finished product. I saved it and that’s when Microsoft Word decided to piss me the *&^%(* off and crash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I lost EVERYTHING!! About 5 hours of work down the drain. I have no idea what caused it, I don’t even remember what kind of error messages I got, all I know is the crappiest word processor on the face of the earth lost all my updates! Not only did I lose the updated, I lost the entire document. Luckily I had a backup of the original so I only lost the updates.
This is not the first time this has happened to me. It’s happened on several occasions in the past. Last time it happened I remember telling myself I need to start using OpenOffice but for some dumb reason I didn’t. Well, I DO NOW!!!
I’m not a techie, as you probably know, so I won’t even attempt to go into the specs etc. All I know is that OpenOffice does the same as Word plus a bunch more including transferring documents to pdf format. It’s much more stable than Word and it’s also Free!!
Do yourself a favor if you haven’t already and uninstall Microsoft Word and install OpenOffice for free!
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9th October, 2007 at 5:42 am
Sorry to hear that, Josh.
I like OpenOffice and have a copy of it, but I still use Office 2007 for just about everything. I haven’t had those kind of problems.
Anyway, hope that you love OO!
Later!
9th October, 2007 at 5:44 am
I’m probably still venting, but I’m still sticking with OpenOffice. I’ve used it quite a bit and never had the slightest problem.
9th October, 2007 at 6:52 am
Hi Josh, sorry to hear that too.
Like Chris, I’ve got OpenOffice installed, but still use Microsoft Office most of the time. I like the idea of OpenOffice and want to support them, but it’s not quite there yet (it’s close though).
Another thing in favour of Microsoft Office (for me) is the Visual Basic For Applications underlying it. Since I teach VBA, I know it pretty well and I can get Office to do almost anything for me.
One tip I tell my IT students: Save often! I hit Ctrl+S two or three times a minute - I don’t even know I’m doing it any more. Sounds like you had more serious problems if the entire document is gone, so this may not have helped, but it’s worth repeating anyway.
9th October, 2007 at 7:31 am
No matter how much proof you guys have, I’m standing by my decision
Damn Word!…I’ll probably be using it again tomorrow.
9th October, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Hi,
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Thanks and regards
Jitu
9th October, 2007 at 10:15 pm
ermm…to be totally honest, I think I’ll stick with microsoft word. I’m sorry for your pains however, the behaviour of word was rather strange, considering you were unable to obtain your work after it’d crash. Bearing in mind microsoft word makes a backup copy or shadow copy of your document while your writing it til the moment you select save and it basically uses that file to overwrite your original document. That’s one of the reasons why word is able to restore your original backup file if it crashes out. But that didn’t happen for you. Anyway. enjoy your openoffice, I remember when I was at university and people there were trying to promote it…not for me, I’ll say.
9th October, 2007 at 11:03 pm
It looks like Word is unanimously more popular with you guys, but it’s caused me more pain than any other word processor. It does attempt to recover documents and there has been times where it has for me, but more often than not the “recovery” is a bunch of useless symbols.
Maybe I just need the newest version, but being that Office goes for $300-$600 I may just stick with OpenOffice, which hasn’t given me any problems at all.
Anyone know how I can get the newest version of Word without having to pay for the entire Office pack?
10th October, 2007 at 1:15 am
There’s no compelling reason for me to pay for Word/Office. I’m an average user, much like Josh. I’ve been using OpenOffice for the last year without significant incident. Every once in awhile, there’s a little something. And the Calc module has problems saving over itself every once in awhile…so it’s important to keep an eye on that. I’m also intending to look at Google’s new-acquired StarOffice, which is supposed to be good.
For the most part, I find Microsoft products to be kludgy and bloated. Yes, they do everything for you…but they are overpriced, and underresponsive to customer feedback. I believe I’ve paid for my last MS product (Outlook 2003…purchased last week…because 2007 sucks beyond belief).
10th October, 2007 at 1:27 am
“Anyone know how I can get the newest version of Word without having to pay for the entire Office pack?”
**Cough**HERE**cough**
23rd October, 2007 at 1:55 am
Josh,
Thought you might like this: http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-download/extend-openoffice-with-oxygenoffice-313413.php
Check it out.
Later!