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Open office is almost exactly the same as Excel. That's what I use too. Their Writer is very similar to Word, as well. Can't beat it for the price.
 
What are you trying to do with it? My wife is actually an Excel Macro programmer as a huge part of her job. She can do AMAZING things in Excel. I have been using it for years but have never even heard of open office.
 
Hmm...I'm all for sticking it to the man....but since I already have Excel and know it are there any advantages other than the price to use open office other than Excel? If not, then I'm really just sticking it to myself by having to learn another new program!
 
Being an Open Source program , it has allot of add ons (Macros) that are available for free and it is updated by the people who use it the most so it is somewhat easier to use the MS Office , at least for me .
 
I use Excel. to many years working in IT to use anything else. You can buy the student/teacher version for a LOT less and it has all the bells and whistles of the 'full' version.
 
I use it for pretty much everything. The wife actually jokes about it. However, keep in mind that I use it for work on a regular basis; practically everyday.

Another way to view excel is that it is a very good multi-purpose tool. You can use it to do a virtually unlimited number of tasks. However, it can have the drawback of a multi-purpose tool in that it may not actually be the best available option; especially if you are dealing with a large amount of data.

I do not have any experience with open office, but I have heard that it is (in general) a good alternative to MS products.
 
I use Excel every day for everything from work to shop inventory complete with pictures. I know a consultant that has convinced me there is nothing you can't do with Excel. However, if I were in your position and had never used it, I would try OpenOffice before I spent money to purchase Excel.
 
Another free spreadsheet (and other productivity tools) can be found at docs.google.com (free registration required) - your data can be accessible at any computer on the web.
 
I use Excel 'cause it came with the machine and will do a lot of calculations in your spreadsheet.. does have some learning curve... I don't like Excel as well as I did the Lostus123... I always thought Lotus was more powerful. I used Lotus to write my Tariff when I was forwarding manager at an airfreight company and tariffs were required by CAB... I wrote the entire tariff, including all descriptive and rules and regulations in Lotus.. I don't think Excel will do that, but for simple spreadsheets with formulas and calculations, it works reasonably well. I like Lotus cause I could link pages and make corrections over the entire tariff from a single page. Haven't figured out how to do that with Excel.
 
yes, I use Excel occasionally, but primarily because I have it at work, and it came with the computers I've bought. If it were up to my to buy it, I'd use OOo (OpenOffice.org) exclusively.

However, if all you need is a spreadsheet for inventory, etc., don't overlook online spreadsheets like Zoho.com or Google Docs spreadsheet
 
Spreadsheets are spreadsheets the world around. Excell, OpenOffice Calc, Apple Numbers, Google Docs, Appleworks, Lotus, Quattro, etc, etc,. If you can use one, 90% of your knowledge and experience will transfer to another. The differences are usually minor, and are typically constrained to the more complicated macro functions that 99.5% of the users will never use. Formulas and calculations are typically compatible across the board - since math is math everywhere on Earth.

I use Apple Numbers, only because I have a house full of Macs and the price was right. However, before Apple's iWork got to it's current level of refinement, I used OpenOffice exclusively.
 
TBone said:
I use Excel every day for everything from work to shop inventory complete with pictures. I know a consultant that has convinced me there is nothing you can't do with Excel. However, if I were in your position and had never used it, I would try OpenOffice before I spent money to purchase Excel.
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Thanks all for the replys and Tbone said it well and will take his advise and get Open Office. Did not want to spend the money if there was another program that compatable and being free makes it even better.
 
I use it because we use it at the firehouse for budget items. If you have kids in cillege or know someone in education, sometimes they can get a real deal on the academic version. That's how I got my Microsoft project software.
 
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