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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] powerpoint
From:       Daniel Carrera <dcarrera () math ! umd ! edu>
Date:       2003-08-26 4:22:42
Message-ID: 20030826042242.GA3180 () math ! umd ! edu
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Hello Dale,

I highly recommend OpenOffice.  It is a free download from 
www.openoffice.org.  You are free to copy it and give it away to your 
frineds, family and coworkers.  It is free for personal as wel as 
commercial use.  It will not cost you a dime.

OpenOffice has four main components:
  *  Writer is a replacement for Word.
  *  Impress is a replacement for PowerPoint.
  *  Calc is a replacement for Excel.
  *  Draw is a vector-graphics drawing program.  MS Office does not have
     any equialent for this.

If you download a free database such as MySQL then OpenOffice can use it 
as a backend to give you a replacement for Access.

I strongly suggest you try it.  It's free, so you have nothing to lose.  
You will find that OpenOffice has most of the features of MS Office, but 
each one has some features that the other does not.  In my opinion, I 
think that OpenOffice is much better.  My favourite advantages of 
OpenOffice over MS Office (other than the price) are:

  * Smaller files.
  * OO has a drawing program.
  * Superior equation editor (I am a mathematecian).

If you need tech support with OpenOffice that is free also.  Just write 
ack to this mailing list and we will do our best to help you.

Hope that helps,
Daniel.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:46:47AM -0700, dale wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
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> 
> My wife is an XP user.  She needs powerpoint for her 7th grade classroom.  I
> was going to purchase Microsoft Office for Teachers, but my wife doesn't
> need all the extra gadgets that comes with.  Someone recommended your site
> for a potential solution.  Do you have a program that is like powerpoint
> that won't cost $100.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Dale Fincher
> 
> danbury@att.net
> 
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