Star Openoffice.org 1.0 Review - Review your Options
Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
Features, Office You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice. Staroffice used to be free as in you can freely download and install in as many computers as you like but Sun Microsystems has recently decided to charge for Staroffice. However, please do not fret as Openoffice.org will always be free and we are going to show you in this article how and why Openoffice.org instead of MS Office and StarOffice is for you.
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what about spell check
by smudge on Mon 17th Jun 2002 08:20 UTC

I use openoffice.org in both windoze and Linux. the interchangeability is nothing short of amazing. Totally platform independent. Exchanging docs between windoze and Linux is seamless as is using and modifying docs created in Word or Excel and saving and sending them on in MS format.
Just one minor complaint and that is the spell check is not as sophisticated as MS Word. Not having used Word for some time now I don't really miss the spellchecker as i have learned to compensate.
The parts of the suite that i use (spreadsheet and wordprocesser) don't have all the functionality of their MS counterparts and some of the options listed are not working. For the most part though i find that i have my needs met. sort of the difference between driving a 1980's pickup truck and a 2002 model.... they both get you where your going. of course i can drive my OO.org on the OS of my choice and that is important to me. As is ownership and free use of the software on my system.