{"id":17,"date":"2004-09-23T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T02:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-12-20T21:32:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T04:32:22","slug":"a-free-alternative-to-microsoft-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/a-free-alternative-to-microsoft-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A free alternative to Microsoft Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a free alternative to <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/default.aspx\" target=\"new\">Microsoft Office<\/a>, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"new\">OpenOffice<\/a>.  It has every application that MS Office has except an equivalent to MS Outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldistribution.com\/samples\/openofficeintro11en.swf\" target=\"new\">here<\/a> for a flash tour of OpenOffice (it&#8217;s for an older version, but you&#8217;ll get the gist of it).  Or view a PDF presentation (you need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/acrobat\/readstep2.html\" target=\"new\">Adobe Acrobat Reader<\/a> to view it) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/product\/docs\/OOoFlyer11p.pdf\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download OpenOffice <a href=\"http:\/\/download.openoffice.org\/2.0.0\/index.html\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/download.openoffice.org\/2.0.0\/index.html\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OpenOffice\" title=\"OpenOffice\" src=\"http:\/\/marketing.openoffice.org\/art\/galleries\/marketing\/web_buttons\/nicu\/88x31_3_get.png\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a free alternative to Microsoft Office, check out OpenOffice. It has every application that MS Office has except an equivalent to MS Outlook. Go here for a flash tour of OpenOffice (it&#8217;s for an older version, but you&#8217;ll get the gist of it). Or view a PDF presentation (you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it) here. Download OpenOffice here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}