I recently switched to Open Office (as in I did it today) because my MS Word installation got corrupted and I thought I might as well give it a try if I have to install something (AP Physics report due tomorrow, dontcha know).
However, I have a few documents that I password protected in Word that I’d like to be able to open in Open Office, since I can’t open them in Word at this point. Is there any way to get Open Office to open these documents?
If the password implies encryption, it’s probably illegal (under the DMCA) for OO to be able to open those documents. It’s a bitch, I know, but there isn’t anything the OO team can do about it.
Open Office is great, but you get what you pay for. Web Ct for example didnt recongnize it, so I had to download the trial of Office.
Microsoft is a Monopoly to begin with, but then, the sell the best products for it seperately… for just as much? No sale.
Careful… this board, as well as a goodly chunk of the Internet as a whole, is running on open-source software, which is extremely cheap, if not free, to the people who run it. Open Office is a great piece of software by most measures, and its ability to read Word documents is something that MS is very interesting in hindering by any means it can.
This is great business, in fact: Microsoft knows that people don’t by Windows, they buy Office and Excel and so on. Windows is simply the headache you endure to get the applications. If they offered discounts for buying applications seperate from the OS, their OS sales would dry up completely. For some reason, Gates doesn’t like this prospect, although he’d probably make just as much money (if not more) if he simply wrote his applications to run on multiple OSes and sold them to everyone, instead of just Windows users.