Wet stuff coming from the sky. How odd.

[erastes]

and hay fever, as always, is even worse after rain. It’s just what would happen. *gloom* Sneezing. Check. Itchy eyes. check. Itchy throat. Check. Hives. Check. I love summer. eek! MONSOON! RUN AWAY!

English Weather+Global Warming=Really Rather Odd.

I Knew Him update: Just hit 12k words. But: Foot. Meet Bullet. Just written a ten page scene about a chat beside a graveside and suddenly realised that the dead person is a SUICIDE and therefore wouldn’t be buried where he’s buried. Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid. *changes whilst muttering savagely*

I am so full of the love for Open Officer Writer I can’t tell you. Not only is it FREE – it’s bloody better than Word as far as I’m concerned.  If you computer crashes or freezes or you just forget to turn it off properly, it recovers. Yes, I know Word does that too, but the difference is that Word will recover automatically—and the recovered document will be called “recovered” and then if you have the bad luck to crash AGAIN, your document will be gone. (this is my experience, of course, yours might be different. However, Open Office has recovered AND SAVED your document, so if you crash again, it recovers it again. Bloody wonderful. It also has tracked changes on it, whereas the other free word processing thingy (Works, is it?) doesn’t and transferring from format to format doesn’t phaze it EITHER. I opened a .doc file in it today and although it wasn’t editable, all i had to do was copy the text, paste it into a new open office document and even the formatting of the file was perfect.

You can also save as any type of word processing file too – and as most publishers prefer either Word docs OR RTFs – it’s great that this is an option, as they haven’t been converted to the odt yet… sadly!

I. LOVE. IT. It’s a huge relief because I don’t have Word on the laptop, can’t afford to buy one, and the trial version has one more use left. So thank God I’ll never NEED to use Word if I haven’t got it. Thank you Open Office. You ROCK.

 

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Comments

[beckyblack]

I've got Word 2007 on my main laptop, and I like it. But I'm pretty fond of Open Office too, which I use on my netbook. It's kind of retro looking now compared to Word with its ribbons and stuff. But it gets the job done.

Heck, I even like the MS Works word processor. Anything that lets me write gets my vote! :D

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I love my Open Office.

Just be careful about switching formats. Sometimes mine will eat the quotation marks.

[josephine-myles.livejournal.com]

*sniffles and sneezes* Damn pollen!

I love Open Office too. I've been using it for a year or so, and haven't come across any snags. Doc files should be editable, though - but they open as read only if you open them directly from an email for some reason.

Also, that bloody irritating dancing paperclip never makes an unwelcome appearance on your screen!

[alankria.livejournal.com]

I am so full of the love for Open Officer Writer I can’t tell you.

I wonder if Open Office changes personality depending on, I don't know, the shape of the clouds. I detest it so. Writer reformats all my .rtfs into various fonts and formats and line-spaces, without fail. Fortunately .doc files are stable, but I'd really prefer to save in .rtf. Meanwhile the spreadsheet does its best to make all the dates American, and I'm sure I changed the settings to British a while back but it still makes new dates American when it can.

Can't wait til I get a mac again and I can use my final key on my MS Word-for-mac. It's far from perfect - I also can't wait to get Scrivener back into my life - but at least it doesn't fill me with minor rage almost every time I use it.