Monday, 22 September 2014

Microsoft v Openoffice

To be fair I seldom use MS Office applications. Why? Because it is expensive. When I bought my computer I did not have that much money left to buy MS Office.


Instead, I usually work on Open Office (an open source equivalent to MS Office) applications. From a philosophical and ethical point of view I think it is better to use open source program.


I find Open Office to be as convenient as MS. I frequently work on Open Office Writer ( OOW) instead of MS Word, I do most of my writing (like my assignments or theses) on OOW. It allows me to have a Backup of my academic work just in case.


For presentation I am accustomed to OOPresentation


However it lacks a few functionalities of MS Power Point: for instance, you cannot scroll the slides which is slightly inconvenient when you are reviewing your presentation. The master pages are also less up to date than MS PPT. Apart from those 2 points I like it.


From time to time I need OO Spreadsheet and I cannot find that much difference with Excel.


In the future when I will have to keep a record of my students and their record, I will probably have to use a database or maybe stick with Spreadsheet. Does anyone have any experience of both? Can he/she give me his/her advice on what is best?

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Christelle, that's a good suggestion I will talk to you about that.

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  2. It depends what you want the database for, I think that spreadsheets are perfect for most of a teachers admin jobs. The OO version is perfect really and as you say, much cheaper than MS!

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