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Open Office with MS Office

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by kellster 1 view

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I have Windows XP Pro with Office XP standard. I want to evaluate Open Office. Would you (anyone) recommend uninstalling MS Office before installing Open Office? To give you a little background, I have been supporting windows since the late 80s. I have not posted here much though. Thank you in advance for comments/suggestions.

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by kellster

But couldn't find anything on this. Surely someone has evaluated open office with ms office on the same machine?

by forum surfer

You want have any problems with both installed. It'd be better to evaluate as you can switch back and forth between applications to compare. No need to uninstall office unless you decide you don't like it. Office Xp is pretty horrid anyway, I'd at least upgrade to 03

by kellster

for the sanity check. I know we should upgrade, long story, not my decision but I was tasked with evaluating OO.

by forum surfer

You may want to test opening excel spreadsheets that use some of the advance formulas, or excessively long spreadsheets with formulas embedded. I found OO had trouble in those areas.

by the scummy one

and never had problems. Of course, You may want to change your default (what opens by default when you open a .doc, etc).

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