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I'm thinking of doing a clean WinXP install on the home desktop and I, uh, "lost" the Office cd. So I'd either need to pirate a[nother] copy or buy it @ ~$200 to keep Excel, Access, Word, and Outlook. My question is what are the popular and inexpensive alternatives to Office and Outlook? I have a little experience with StarOffice and just downloaded the most recent version. Is it the best alternative to Office? What about an email client? Anything out there that'll sync with a PocketPC? If I was forced to purchase OfficeXP I'd probably suck it up and buy another machine since I'm adding a HDD and some more memory anyway. This is a lowly 1ghz Athlon with PC133 ram that I'd like to spend about $100 on and get another year of quality use before buying or building another one. Thoughts? Suggestions? 
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www.openoffice.org Looks and feels like all the crap Msoft puts out, but they do it a whole lot better and don't treat you like you are a 11 year old non-english speaker with a fetish for paperclips.
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Oooh and a math formula editor!!
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Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
www.openoffice.org
Looks and feels like all the crap Msoft puts out, but they do it a whole lot better and don't treat you like you are a 11 year old non-english speaker with a fetish for paperclips.
I prefer the bouncy ball.
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Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with pirating another copy? And by 'wrong', I mean why wouldn't that work?
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Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
www.openoffice.org
Looks and feels like all the crap Msoft puts out, but they do it a whole lot better and don't treat you like you are a 11 year old non-english speaker with a fetish for paperclips.
I have this in FC3...just like Office XP. I don't think you will have any problem transitioning from MS Office to Office XP.
For a basic word processor Abiword is not bad...
And if you do any photoshopping but can't seem to "find" a cd for that...The Gimp is fairly similar to Photoshop and free.
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Originally posted by Davo:
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with pirating another copy? And by 'wrong', I mean why wouldn't that work?
Tehcnically you can legally make a single copy of office as a backup.
If you really have the original, you should be able to order just the media, which I imagine would set you back between $10.00 and $30.00
Open Office is totally ace! I usually put it pre-installed on all my systems I sell to residential customers. It does, however, lack in WordPerfect compatibility if you need that. Otherwise it's ace!
Also for anybody wanting to make free PDF's check out Cute PDF
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Originally posted by Davo:
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with pirating another copy? And by 'wrong', I mean why wouldn't that work?
Technically, nothing but I'd like to keep things on the up and up.
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for email use Mozilla Thunderbird. I dont know if anybody has a syncing working with it yet or not.
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