Open Office in Ministry
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Open Office is an Open Source suite of applications that can be used as a replacement for Microsoft Office or Corel Office. Open Office has a few endearing qualities that make it ideal for use in ministry, both in an administrative and missionary environment. The advantages and disadvantages follow;
Advantages;
- It’s Free - That’s correct! Open Office’s primary advantage is the cost. It only costs the time to download and install the program.
- It can open files created with Microsoft Office and Corel Office. That includes word processing documents created with Word and WordPerfect; presentation documents created with PowerPoint and Impress; not to mention spreadsheets created with Excel and StarCalc.
- It can save documents in the aforementioned formats with multiple version support too. All testing I’ve done indicates that if you save a document with Open Office in say Microsoft Word format and you send that document to someone who only has Microsoft Office, they’ll be able to open it 99% of the time.
- It also offers it’s own database creator as well.
- Open Office is available to run on Windows, MAC and Linux operating systems.
- It’s Open Source and actively developed. That means new features and compatibility is constantly being added to the suite of programs.
- It’s easy to learn how to use.
Welcome: Elizabeth Anne Bennett
