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Summary: Word vs Wordperfect 2002 vs Star Office 5.2
Review: This desktop has MS Office, Worperfect Office 2002 and Star Office 5.2 installed on it. I find myself typing this in Star Office which is the normal path I take. Considering this is the least expensive of the three that is sometimes odd. Wordperfect 2002 has a very disfunctional email client. Office has the problems associated with security and frankly no one likes a bully. I haven't run into something I want to do in running my business that I haven't been able to do in Star Office. Sure there must be something, but like 99% of the folks out there few of us use everything available in the average office suite to it's full power. The 6.0 beta is due out soon and I hope it meets the expectations that most 5.2 users have. Save your money and use Star Office 5.2. P.S. I use it in Win 2000, Win 98SE, and Linux.
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Summary: Inexpensive, but Slow
Review: I use Star Office on my linux box, and the only complaint I have is that it takes at least 30 seconds to start up and is sometimes slow doing other things, even though I have a relatively fast processer and 256 MB of ram. But still very cheap, and sometimes better than Microsoft's expensive stuff.
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Summary: best software value ever
Review: Star Office is the best software value I have ever used. I don't know why so many people use Microsoft's expensive program when Star Office does everything it will do and sometimes better. It imports .xls spreadsheets flawlessly when Microsoft's own program sometimes doesn't do it properly. The web browser works faster also.
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Summary: Great Microsoft Office substitute
Review: I have been using it for almost a year, and I really love its simplicity and power. It is a wonderful substitute to the expensive Microsoft Office.
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Summary: Good suite for normal users
Review: My impressions about this software are mixed. After downloading (9 hours, 10 min from Sun's site) and installing it, I went about checking the features. The first thing I checked out was the MS office compatibility. StarOffice opens and writes MS Office formats easily. The programs (Writer, Calc, etc) are also very powerful and easy to use (for users who know MS Office well). The image editing program has more features relative to PhotoEditor. Now, for the limitations. On my old machine (P-133, 32 MB, Win 95), the program runs a lot slower than MS Office. The startup time is around 15 secs. I know I need more memory on the system, but MS Word used to run reasonably even with other programs open. The other thing to my disappointment was that documents with formulas could not saved in MS Word format. I got strange hieroglyphics when I opened them in Word. The final and most annoying thing was that the program crashed whenever I clicked the Insert menu in Star Writer. In summary, I did not like the idea of checking each document to see whether it transferred cleanly to Word. If the next version of StarOffice offers a PDF conversion option or saves my equations as images, I would be more willing to buy it at the full price. For the time being, I will be using MS Office and learning StarOffice in my spare time. It would also be great if more people accept StarOffice documents, so information will not be lost just because it cannot be saved in MS's formats.
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Summary: Good Product! However, it utilizes too much resources.
Review: This is a great product! This application allows you to move seamlessly from wordprocessing to HTML editing, then to spreasheet populating, then to web browsing, etc. However, I would not advise anyone to run it on slow machines; e.g. it took me two minutes to open and start editing a five-slide presentation on a Pentium 200 Mhz PC.
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Summary: A great office suite for Linux
Review: This product is good for a Windows user trying out Linux, and for the dedicated Linux users. For the Windows users the GUI has the same look and feel of Win Office, and you even get some Office 97 and 2K editing capabilities. So you do your Windows work at work and do the same on Linux. For the Linux users it's a great office suite, one program and you have all the features; wordprocessing, database, spreadsheet, HTML, presentation software.
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Summary: Good, but try the free download version first
Review: There isn't much in here that isn't in the download version, fonts and clipart I guess... I have both, got the full version as a gift, and didn't notice much diffrence.
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Summary: Star Office is a very powerful tool
Review: If you are looking for a great substitute for Microsoft's Office 2000, look no more. With an unbeatable price, Star Office does everything the other one does. Just the commands are not so clearly shown as in MS Office. But if you know what Office 2000 does, you will know how to do it with Star Office. And it is very stable too. I just hope they don't become as greedy as Microsoft.
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Summary: If you haven't seen StarOffice, get it now!
Review: I first started using StarOffice under OS/2 and was surprised at it's features and smooth interface... and amazed at it's "price." This is software you MUST have. This version (5.2) is fully compatible with Office 2000 (which is essential for some people) and has more features than the MS suite. We have adopted it for our company and put it on all our machines -- Windows 98, NT4 and Linux -- giving us complete integration that we'd only dreamed of in the past.I confess that I didn't like the "integrated desktop" feature at first (although it is optional) but have now gotten used to the idea and lean pretty heavily on it. The only other negative comment I could make, to be fair, is the sore lack of documentation furnished with the product. But here again: what do you expect for this price? And the majority of it's features and standard and intuitive. However if you are really new to the idea you'd do well to get yourself a good handbook on StarOffice--there are several now available to choose from. This is software at it's best at any price!
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