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Hi Gang
Just had to get a new computer cause my old one died. Of course it came with Windows ten. I had to pay extra to have Microsoft Office activated but i use Open Office instead cause it's free and works basically the same.
HOWEVER!!! Open Office 4.1.2 will not open any Microsoft documents on 10. Even if you tell Open Office to do so in the setup page it will always revert to the Windows file.
If you upgrade to W10 stick with Open Office 4.1.1 it works just like it did on Windows 8 and will open any Word or Excel file .
Bill V.

You might want to take a look at Libre Office (a fork of Open Office). It has worked fine on Windows 10 for me.

Do you see any evidence that Microsoft is slowly manipulating the market to their financial advantage?

What kind of computer did you buy?

admin wrote:You might want to take a look at Libre Office (a fork of Open Office). It has worked fine on Windows 10 for me.

I'm a huge fan of LibreOffice. It's got a snappier interface, much larger development base, and is easier on system resources than OpenOffice. They're both great, but IMO, LibreOffice is better!

wa2crk wrote:Hi Gang
Just had to get a new computer cause my old one died. Of course it came with Windows ten. I had to pay extra to have Microsoft Office activated but i use Open Office instead cause it's free and works basically the same.
HOWEVER!!! Open Office 4.1.2 will not open any Microsoft documents on 10. Even if you tell Open Office to do so in the setup page it will always revert to the Windows file.
If you upgrade to W10 stick with Open Office 4.1.1 it works just like it did on Windows 8 and will open any Word or Excel file .
Bill V.

This is the version I'm running and I have not seen a problem of which you speak but all of my MS files were generated with old versions. If you would like post a file here and I will see if I can do anything with it. You may have to cheat to post here.... or if you want PM me and I give you an address to send a file to.

Not much development work on open office anymore and I have Libre but have yet to install it. I do mostly doc and spread sheet stuff so almost any of these work for those things.

Ed

reible wrote:

wa2crk wrote:Hi Gang
Just had to get a new computer cause my old one died. Of course it came with Windows ten. I had to pay extra to have Microsoft Office activated but i use Open Office instead cause it's free and works basically the same.
HOWEVER!!! Open Office 4.1.2 will not open any Microsoft documents on 10. Even if you tell Open Office to do so in the setup page it will always revert to the Windows file.
If you upgrade to W10 stick with Open Office 4.1.1 it works just like it did on Windows 8 and will open any Word or Excel file .
Bill V.

This is the version I'm running and I have not seen a problem of which you speak but all of my MS files were generated with old versions. If you would like post a file here and I will see if I can do anything with it. You may have to cheat to post here.... or if you want PM me and I give you an address to send a file to.

Not much development work on open office anymore and I have Libre but have yet to install it. I do mostly doc and spread sheet stuff so almost any of these work for those things.

Ed

Why do you say that?

Openoffice is a discontinued open-source office software suite, originally based on StarOffice. Check the wiki.

Ed

Yeah. LibreOffice was forked from the original code after Oracle bought Sun and attempted to closed-source the code base. They eventually opened it back up, as I understand, but the majority of the contributing community had moved to LibreOffice.

if you all don't like any Microsoft products, then get a mac: it's free, it never fails and best of all no windows 10 or otherwise and i'm sure they all run the free stolen office technologies look alikes.

Thanks guys.
Admin: thanks for the tip I just might try that one.
Dusty: I bought a Lenovo from a small independent computershop. I did not want to spend a bunch. One Terabyte hard drive and I think 400 Gbyte ram.
Dusty again for question #1. I have not lost my cynicism although I hung up my avatar a long time ago. Yes I do.
Bill V