You’ll also want to bypass registration much as you did with Microsoft Office. You simply drop the 380MB app into the /Applications directory of the client system. The deployment of OpenOffice is fairly straight forward. xls for Excel, both supported file formats in OpenOffice (reading files created by others will require no extra work). For example, while oo.o is the standard default file type for new OpenOffice documents you’ll likely want to use something you can use if you need to exchange data with others, like maybe. Sometimes features are in different places or called different things.īefore performing a mass deployment of OpenOffice to your Mac populace you will also want to consider a number of settings that you’ll likely want to change. However, OpenOffice is a drastic change for some users. It’s mature in the 3 release and it’s of course, open source and therefore doesn’t require you to purchase it. OpenOffice is able to do almost everything that Office can do. So what does it mean to switch to OpenOffice? To me it’s all about training. However, there is not as much traction on the corporate side of the fence. A number of school districts and companies around the country are currently looking at buying the next version of Microsoft Office and a surprising number of school districts are starting to shift towards.
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