MS Office or MS Works

[astral276]

I've used both at the same time with no problem, but I've never tried editing a document in them both at once, I'm guessing that would cause a problem.

That shouldn't arise as the first application to open the file should lock it to prevent such a conflict.

[heatemyfather]

That shouldn't arise as the first application to open the file should lock it to prevent such a conflict.

Only if you're running on Windows, other OS's tend to let you open a document or file many times, the last to save it will overwrite any previous saves. Personally I can't stand the way Windows locks files in this way (it could just be MS software that does this, as notepad++ allows files to be changed by other means / programs).

As for MS Office, it's buggy and not worth the money even if it was half the price. I can't count the number of times Outlook has crashed for no reason, the security features are a joke and cause more problems than it's worth, and Word frequently throws up meaningless error messages also for no reason at all. The whole Office suite is supposed to be integrated, so why then does Outlook refer to Word as an external program and give me the impression that it thinks it could be a potential security risk? Junk!

OpenOffice is free, there's a Mac OS project of it called NeoOffice which is excellent and integrates very well with OS X. You get a lot more than you would otherwise get if you paid for MS Office or any other office suite for that matter!

I really wish we used OpenOffice at work, then half of my daily headaches would just disappear.

[Juliebabe25]

@Prohdvn

You need to join ebid as a seller and start listing some auctions.
Otherwise how can people buy your software ?
You are not allowed to show you email address

[OvertheRainbow4U]

I've used both at the same time with no problem, but I've never tried editing a document in them both at once, I'm guessing that would cause a problem.

Open office has its own native document formats, as well as the MS ones, plus it can save as PDF, I know the older versions of MS Office couldn't do that

I have MS Office 2007 on mine, and I can save in PDF without any problems.