Do I need to buy Microsoft Office?

happyrichyyy said:
Thanks for the information. I guess Libre office and open office are quite similar, right? Is the .odt format for these kinds of software?
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Yes, that's correct. People with these programs will be able to view it no problem, but those with Office will need the Office format.
 
Understand now. I do see it asks you to save the document in microsoft word format or odt format. I guess better to save it in word format, if this file will be used or viewed later on in other computers.
 
happyrichyyy said:
Understand now. I do see it asks you to save the document in microsoft word format or odt format. I guess better to save it in word format, if this file will be used or viewed later on in other computers.
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Yes, if you save it in Word format you can view it with both Office and OpenOffice. I'd just save them as Word format by default, so others can view the documents as well. If you intend on others viewing them.
 
Yea, you just gave me a good idea, I shall set the save setting to word format as default format. It's also better to save it to word format if you wanna carry it in usb stick, so that you will be able to view it in other device easily.
 
It probably best to save documents as an ODT file, and than save it as a .doc file by doing a Save as since there may be some benifits keeping files as ODT files, and doing a Save As to save as a .Doc file for others.

The main benifit is it is an Open Source file format instead of a proprietary document format which is closed source like .doc.

IBM Lotus Symphony Office Suite at http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/sy ... f/products is also free, and uses the ODT standard.

Lotus has a slightly nicer user interface, and has tabs like web browsers for easily working on multiple documents at the same time. I think it also has a built-in web browser in it the last time I used it a few years ago.
 
froggyboy604 said:
It probably best to save documents as an ODT file, and than save it as a .doc file by doing a Save as since there may be some benifits keeping files as ODT files, and doing a Save As to save as a .Doc file for others.

The main benifit is it is an Open Source file format instead of a proprietary document format which is closed source like .doc.

IBM Lotus Symphony Office Suite at http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/sy ... f/products is also free, and uses the ODT standard.

Lotus has a slightly nicer user interface, and has tabs like web browsers for easily working on multiple documents at the same time. I think it also has a built-in web browser in it the last time I used it a few years ago.
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Haven't seen this one yet, I'll have to have a look. OpenOffice UI is hard to look at.
 
Thanks for the info, this lotus symphony looks cool, maybe I'm gonna install it to see more. Is this newly released? Coz seems there are quite many people like me who haven't ever heard of it.
 
Lotus Symphony was released a few years a go. It is not as old as Open Office, but it has been out for a few years now.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Lotus Symphony was released a few years a go. It is not as old as Open Office, but it has been out for a few years now.
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Do they have a Mac distro for this as well?
 
I just tested Lotus symphony today, it looks good and works good too, in Windows 7 OS. It has three applications, for document, presentation, and spreadsheet, guess they are similar to MS word, Powerpoint, and Excel. and seems it has almost all the tools that are available in MS Office. I like the theme color actually.

Hey I just noticed that I can't save file in .docx format with Lotus document, it has just .doc, what do you guys see when you use this application?
 
happyrichyyy said:
I just tested Lotus symphony today, it looks good and works good too, in Windows 7 OS. It has three applications, for document, presentation, and spreadsheet, guess they are similar to MS word, Powerpoint, and Excel. and seems it has almost all the tools that are available in MS Office. I like the theme color actually.

Hey I just noticed that I can't save file in .docx format with Lotus document, it has just .doc, what do you guys see when you use this application?
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Yep, same issue. Try OpenOffice.
 
I think .docx only works for MS Office 2007 and above, so if someone you are sharing a file still use Office 2003 and older, they can only open .doc files unless they install a plug-in or update for .docx if one exist for their version of MS Office.

Lotus might make .doc to avoid incompatibility issues with people who share document files with people who use Office 2003 and below, and Windows' WordPad program can only open .doc files.
 
Oh okay, thank you for the explanation, understand it now. It still seems to be a good software for sure, I especially like the theme or skin of Lotus Symphony. 🙂
 
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