Why you should use OpenOffice for your business

OpenOffice is a great alternative to Microsoft Office. It can perform everything you can do in Microsoft Office and best of all it is FREE.  Yes, I said FREE, you don't have to pay single cent for even commercial use and you can install on as many computer as you like.

For people new to OpenOffice, you may find it difficult to navigate or finding the features you are familiar no longer where it suppose to be (as in MS Office).  However, once you use it for couple of time, you will be as productive as you are in MS Office. Just remember that Help is your friend.

If you wonder why you should go through the hassle to use OpenOffice, just think about the money you save.  For example, MS Office Home Edition going about RM500, while Professional Edition is about RM1400.a  Let say you have 10 units of computers in the office, you can easily save from RM5000 to RM14,000 just by using OpenOffice.

OpenOffice Programs

• Writer a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book. Alternative to Word. 

• Calc a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyse, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics. Alternative to Excel. 

• Impress the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. Alternative to Powerpoint.

• Draw lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.

• Base lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within Apache OpenOffice. Alternative to Access

• Math lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.