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Microsoft office download
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Does anyone know where I can download microsoft office?
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Well, usually when you purchase Office, it has a code which you have to enter during setup to prove authenticity of the licence purchased. A hacked version works around this issue.
OpenOffice is a high function professional open-source downloadable office suite of programs, including writer, calc, impress, draw and base which are the equivalents of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Paint and Access, Available totally for free. Get it here : http://www.openoffice.org/
Will I be able to open documents that I created in word with those?
Yep
Open office offers the same raw functionality effectively but without the form, so if you are using documents a lot you will find it restrictive and slow to do simple tasks. If you've learnt excel you will need need to relearn calc because it uses different functions and syntax for some bizarre reason...
Personally I was happy to pay £40 for office as I use outlook so much, I have it set up with 4 email accounts. My friends use thunderbird (mozilla equivilent) and they just can't do as much stuff as I can.
and yah one more thing, it is possible that when you open your document in open/star office, which as saved in MS office, it may not show properly alignment and some other stuff because of the lack of the feature support for MS doc.
If you're a student you get it cheaper, like most MS products.
You can always use OpenOffice though.