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How to Switch Office Suites from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org

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Fanaticattack.com; By Solveig Haugland
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How to set up OpenOffice.org to work how you want it with templates and clip art, configurations, shortcuts, and more. You’ve been thinking about it for a while. You’ve seen the PDF converter and sighed longingly; you’ve blushed before the skeptical glances of your open-source and anti-Microsoft friends who say “You’re still using Microsoft Office?” you’re looking at your budget and wondering why you would pay to get Microsoft Office 2007. And you’ve received Word 2007 files and haven’t been able to open them, so you know there’s going to be some file format issues no matter what you do. But you haven’t switched over to OpenOffice.org. Quite yet. I’m here to help.

Think of this as a virtual guide, the written version of me coming over to your house on a Sunday afternoon to help get to know OpenOffice.org and figure out all the things you’re not quite sure about. Sit down with this article this weekend and in a few hours you’ll feel refreshed, open sourced, and able to hold your head high when you run into those roving gangs of open source supporters.

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