OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

Rated 40/50 by dnlbrick at Aug 9, 2009

"This is a great product." This product is every bit as good as MS Office, with a big plus of free. Although it is very good, it is not always totally compatible with MS Office and a bit slow loading. I continue to use it anyhow. It has virtually all the features of MS Office and a decent tutorial if more training is required. like it very much.

Rated 50/50 by jimdris at Aug 10, 2009

"OpenOffice.org is all I need" I have used OpenOffice.org for my text document and spreadsheet needs for a couple of years. Loads a little slow, but not too bad. It's free, non-obtrusive, and it works.

Rated 50/50 by bbbad2004 at Aug 11, 2009

"Outstanding product" This is absolutely the easiest and best office product to use. You can do just about anything that the expensive products do and the price is excellent too. Like any other office product it takes a bit of a learning curve but once mastered can make your office chores seem easy. This is the only office product I use, except for pdf files. The best things in life are free.

Rated 40/50 by apaul1934 at Aug 12, 2009

"Open Office does all I need." What I have used of it has been easy to use. On my computer it opens a little slow.

Rated 40/50 by Sthedoc at Aug 13, 2009

"Ease of us and access" The way I can move around in the window and the ease of the content inserts and addition I didn't find anything that i was not impressed with

Rated 40/50 by jts1940 at Aug 19, 2009

"Good clean system at the right price" The price and it works None I am aware of See #2

Rated 40/50 by jbecks63 at Aug 19, 2009

"Good but not great." Easy to use. Takes to long to load up.

Rated 40/50 by Pidipa at Aug 20, 2009

"Using Open Office for approx. ten years - no complaints" A great all-rounder. The price - if it wasn't free I might really be able to think up a gripe like ... let me think ... oh yea... why is it so expensive?

Rated 50/50 by reeltired at Aug 20, 2009

"As good as it gets - for the price." It has all the features of much more expensive products. I haven't encountered any. I knwo they uise a lot of this program in Europe - in big businesses. It's as good as the expensive Ameircan brand, and so affordable.

Rated 40/50 by daylight2 at Aug 21, 2009

"Great if it wasn't so large" Got it all Slowed down my computer. It would be nice if you could just download the programs that you need or use. Very large program that slowed down my machine. User friendly? Not really, unless you are a geek and have the time to search through forums. Free and has MS beat on value.

Rated 40/50 by basesurge at Aug 22, 2009

Free. Does most of what M$ Office does Takes forever to load. Big download. May not work seemlessly with all files, I don't really get the M$ Office monoculture. That package is monsterously expensive and I sincerely loathe it's UI. OO is the freeware alternative from the good folks at Sun, the Java people. If all you want to do is some basic Word, Excell, etc. stuff it's all in here but the results may not play well with other office programs. This package has a bit of a learning curve as well.

Rated 30/50 by kcand3 at Aug 22, 2009

Compared to Wordpad on Vista, it had alot more options to choose from, like double spaceing button etc. I was very eager to use this applicaton. This app. kept on crashing for no reason or it would freeze up. Very disappointed with the crashing side of it. Open Office. org should have better answers in its help menu for when this happens. Have got rid of this app. and have now got Oo.org 2.4 which does not freeze or crash and is much better all round I think. The help menu is vast and so far, no crashes!

Rated 50/50 by mosniper831 at Aug 25, 2009

"great and free" free prefect freeware to download mirco soft student has nothing on open office. had problems installing it , had to download it twice. Had to repair the software. great freeware.

Rated 40/50 by blooddogone at Aug 26, 2009

"Haven't really used it that much." I can open the pictures that mt sister emails me,otherwise I can't open them. I'm just learning how to use it so I can't say anything I don't like. I pretty much did that already above.

Rated 40/50 by xymarkd at Aug 26, 2009

"Great free alternative to MS Office for average users" Free. Works well with standard formats. I take a .doc file someone prepares with MS Word, proof and tweak the format with OOo, and email it to others as either .doc or .html. I also maintain a Excel-format spreadsheet. All this works well. Huge download; slow startup. Sometimes it seems to get confused if I change the page layout repeatedly in the same session, but that's minor stuff.

Rated 40/50 by Aegis69 at Aug 27, 2009

Wow, guys I have to say that downloading 130megs for a .01 upgrade is getting silly. I love openoffice, its all I use, but maybe wait till you have a serious version upgrade, like 3.1 to 3.2 or something before recompiling the entire app. Or, implement a patch system. Please. (edit) jeezuz now I gotta restart my system too? COME ON!

Rated 50/50 by mjm01010101 at Aug 31, 2009

Strangely organized list of fixes here: http://development.openo...org/releases/3.1.1.html

Rated 50/50 by imluna47 at Aug 31, 2009

"Works as well or better than Microsoft Office..." No cost, high efficiency, easy to use program. I really don't dislike anything. What's not to like?

Rated 30/50 by mjm01010101 at Aug 31, 2009

Strangely organized list of fixes here: http://development.openo...org/releases/3.1.1.html Update: 9/8/2009 Crashed on export to PDF. Could not recover the document even though I previously saved it. This is a showstopper for me.

Rated 50/50 by wrdavenport at Sep 1, 2009

Simple, clean, straighforward, and (above all else) evolutionary (not "revolutionary") with improvements If you are a power user or someone with guru-like skills/needs for office productivity this will be a light for you It is said that the greatest trick Satan ever played was convincing Man that he did not exist. Microsoft has so permeated the market that great, utilitarian based suites like Open Office seem almost to be lost in the wilds. But for the vast majority of us that have basic to intermediate skills and need for word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets Open Office is a top notch performer with an unbeatable price.