OpenOffice Microsoft Office alternatives

OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas
- This blog seems to have many tips on openOffice usage
Summary of new features in OpenOffice.org 2.3
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Just Say no to Microsoft - this page has evaluated alternatives to each of MS product
- Spreadsheets comparison
- MS Wordcomparison - Abi word is there (my favorite for fast and easy )
- look at the legend icons on each product like "quality alternative/my personal pick" etc.. this gives the evaluator opinion on each of the products

Open Office
Open office Producs
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OpenOffice.org 2.3 Impresses: General improvements made to the spreadsheet application, Calc, and word processing application, Writer, make the case for OpenOffice 2.3 as a potentially easier and definitely cheaper upgrade path for existing Microsoft Office users, who may be considering a transition to Microsoft Office 2007

Open office Calc Spreadsheet review

Web based Word/spread sheets
- As I am using google docs ,they are good to share( for read/write) with any body , but for some reason my google spread sheet is not opening one of existing "Microsoft Excel" file
- tried "glide crunch" offline spread sheet looks good , problem it saves only it's own format not the opted .xls etc..