Anyone know any good alternatives to Microsoft Word?

I tried to reinstall Microsoft Office onto my laptop, but during the installation process, I get some kind of error message saying something about some kind of fault or something that occurred during the installation process and then the installer would close. Since I'm getting sick of trying to mess around with this thing, I am thinking about just downloading some sort of alternative to Microsoft Word.

Does anyone have any suggestions for any good alternatives to Microsoft Word? Preferably something that reads DOC files or DOCX files? Thanks.

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Star Office is another good free alternative.

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Originally Posted by SILBER-1

Star Office is another good free alternative.

That's pretty much the same thing as OO.

There's Abiword too. Pretty good if you only want a word processor, and not bother with anything else.

I was speaking idiomatically.

There is no real alternative to Office 2007 to open DOCX. You have to go though some ridiculous conversion process to get a docx file to open in Openoffice and 90% it breaks all advanced formatting.

Personally I think you are better off just trying to troubleshoot the Office 2007 install because nothing really comes close to how feature rich and intuitive Office as become since 2007 was released.

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Originally Posted by Cetra

There is no real alternative to Office 2007 to open DOCX. You have to go though some ridiculous conversion process to get a docx file to open in Openoffice and 90% it breaks all advanced formatting.

Personally I think you are better off just trying to troubleshoot the Office 2007 install because nothing really comes close to how feature rich and intuitive Office as become since 2007 was released.

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Originally Posted by tghvre

oh , sorry , i do not understand you clearly , and i know you are the professional , and you do the professional work , but i need your help , if you would like to help me , and i think i will have a look on it ,

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I use OpenOffice myself, what do I need M Word for then

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Originally Posted by red1234blue

I use OpenOffice myself, what do I need M Word for then

Well, opening .docx files for starters. OpenOffice is ok as far as it goes but features and compatability wise it's not got much on Wordpad. If you're just after a text editor with some formatting options it's ok but if you're producing any sort of professional documents, especially if you're planning on sending them to anyone to look at by email then I'd seriously consider getting Office 2007. The other problem with open office is that if you send a document to someone with an older version of MS Office, the formatting will probably go all to shit in the process.

Even if you go with Office 2003, you can download a fix from the MS website to allow it to open .docx or .xlsx files.

Like I say, if you just need it for writing up essays then Open Office is probably fine for but it's just not up to the task of professional use (Although I suspect if you were doing anything professional with it you'd have just bought Office already).

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OpenOffice.org has been able to read *.docx files since version 3.0. I've been working with OOo in MS Office-heavy environments quite well, mainly due to the fact that people tend to stay the hell away from MS Office 2007 and its weird Ribbon interface, along with a general preference for the pre-2007 document formats, for maximum compatibility with machines that run the older versions (any official or unofficial patches notwithstanding). Ironically this also works in favor of OOo, which by now handles those formats quite effortlessly and its more MS Office 2003-like interface is probably going to hasten adoption quite a bit.

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Can anyone explain to me why my installation of OpenOffice crashes when I try to paste anything from another window? I know the topic isn't really about that, but it seems like I might get some help from the folks who are self-proclaimed OO users.

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Sounds like that type of nasty issues that would take longer to figure out than reinstalling the software or upgrading it to the latest version. 3.0.1 just came out, it's a bugfix release so it might be for you.

I was speaking idiomatically.