Help with OpenOffice.Org?

Question

My friend told me that its absolutely free, legal, and virus free, but I really cant trust him. Even if you don't have antivirus, will your computer stay safe? will it get a virus? and is it REALLY legal? I thought that its illegal because its free. BTW, my computer is a windows XP. Can someone who tried answer?

Answer 1

OpenOffice FREE and SAFE and it works with Microsoft files.

OpenOffice The free and open productivity suite

http://download.openoffice.org/

When you download from the Internet, use “SAVE” not “RUN”

Make sure you KNOW/CONTROL where the FILE SAVES.

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OpenOffice download is a extremely large program. It contains 5 Application programs plus an extraction program and a program installer.

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When the Download box appears

• Click on SAVE

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Once you downloaded/saved OpenOffice on your hard drive, you have to extract the Installer.

• Click on the program Icon.

In the installation Preparation box,

• Click Next

You should get the default “Destination folder”

C:\Users\Yourname\Desktop\OpenOffice.o... 2.4 (en-US) Installation Files

• Click Unpack

OpenOffice Installation Wizard will come up.

• Click Next

Check (I accept the terms in the license agreement)

• Click Next

If the customer information is OK

• Click Next

At the Setup type

• Click Next

At the File Type

• Click Next

Click Install

At Installation Wizard Completed

• Click Finish

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Open OpenOffice

Scroll down the licence Agreement

• Click Accept.

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In OpenOffice

• Click Tools

• Click Options

• Click Load/Save

Select Microsoft Office

• Check all the S boxes.

• Click OK

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Delete the “Destination folder” on your desktop

You can also delete the downloaded file.

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Answer 2

Hi !

At  first understand what is this openoffice.org? u know its like a ms-office. Openoffice is absolutely free, even when i installed the fedora 9(linux os) it installed itself automatically,not like the windows,because in windows u must've to install the ms-office seprately.

          And the answer of ur next part is it will it get a virus? u can easily understand now. if ur pc affected by viruses, then it can affect everything depend on the virus nature, either it may be ms-office or openoffice. So openoffice is just like ms-office peckage nd is absoluetly free.for windows u must've to install the openoffice.org seprately,but no need to install seprately in case of fedora(linux o.s)

Answer 3

Yes, the program is open source, and therefore totally free. I have used it for many months and have never had a virus. It's totally safe.

About it being legal, it is. It's distributed under the GPL. Check out 'GPL' on wikipedia to get more information.

The program is great, I recommend it to you.

Answer 4

It is better than what you, as an obvious windows user would consider free. It is Open Source....which means that it is not only free as in free beer. It is free as in free speech.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

You are just about ready to discover a whole new world.