Open Office vs MS Office: Word Processing
So how does Open Office.org “Writer” compare against MS Office “Word”? I’ll start this with just some menu comparisons so you can see that the majority of options used in Word are also in Writer. There are definitely some differences in how certain tasks are executed, but I’ll show later how that is just 12 of one and a dozen of the other.
As for the menu comparison, you can see for yourself that the menus and options available are very close, and would make user migration easier.
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| Open Office.org 2 File | MS Office 2000 File |
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| Open Office.org 2 Edit | MS Office 2000 Edit |
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| Open Office.org 2 View | MS Office 2000 View |
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| Open Office.org 2 Insert | MS Office 2000 Insert |
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| Open Office.org 2 Format | MS Office 2000 Format |
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| Open Office.org 2 Table | MS Office 2000 Table |
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| Open Office.org 2 Tools | MS Office 2000 Tools |
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The last two menus; “Window”, and “Help”, and pretty basic and there is nothing of any real interest to note. I think I will try the script integration from Notes next.