Word to Writer
There's an old phrase you may have heard, “There are some things that money can't buy”. A recent advertising campaign has appended, “For everything else...”. Clichéd as it is, the phrase can be turned on its head to neatly sum up the differences between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.
There a some things that only money can buy. For everything else, there's OpenOffice. I would hazard a guess that the average computer user is unlikely to require anything form a word processor that OpenOffice Writer cannot provide.
However, switching from Word to OpenOffice Writer can be almost as difficult as switching from Windows to Linux. Word is almost ubiquitous in schools, universities and workplaces. Many people grow up using it from a very young age, plumbing its dark and mysterious depths by rote. Or else they merely skim the surface, shying away from the elusive secrets beneath.
This series of articles aims to take some common, and some not so common, tasks and compare how they would be performed in Word to how they are performed in Writer.
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