What version of Microsoft Office should I buy?

You shouldn’t. Because this is free. You should also note it is 100% compatible with all other MS Office programs. You need not worry you wrote your paper in Open Office only to not be able to print it out at work or school. it’s amazing.

Click, and become enlightened my friend.

By the way, if you choose to purchase MS Office stuff, Vista/XP means both Operating Systems. :)

I bought it but I don’t like it as much as previous versions. Try freeware from Google or Foxfire.

I completely agree; Open Office will do everything that you want Microsoft Word for, and you can get it completely free. I switched to it almost two years ago now, and and I have no qualms.

I recently started using Open Office, but am having trouble with a resume sent as an e-mail attachment. Several recepients couldn’t open it, and asked me to send it as a Word document. I thought it was compatible, so what’s the deal on that?!?

@aug: They just have to right click and say ‘Open as…’ They’re noobs.

Thanks…and I thought you went to bed!

Damn it! Foiled again!

OpenOffice is much better. Don’t waste 100 bucks.

People still by Microsoft products? How odd…

I fully endorse OpenOffice. It’s fantastic. One of the best Open Source things out there.

@Augustian – The problem with sending attachments is that Open Office usually saves its own documents as .odt files. Word won’t be able to open those, so if you are planning to send a certain document, just remember that when you go to “save as”, save it as the file type .doc, so that Word users won’t have issues with it.

Paper and pen is always the best way to express yourself. Either that or Bean and 280 Slides .

The only other complaint I have with OpenOffice is it’s very small and remedial dictionary. I misspell every other word, hell I just messed up “misspell.” So, if you are like me and need Spell Check or you head would explode, I would suggest looking for a better Dictionary for OpenOffice.
Although the last time I used OpenOffice was like 2 years ago…

Add another to the OpenOffice band wagon. Hell OpenOffice on linux if you want to really flip off Micro$oft (isn’t that clever I used a $ instead of an s ;-)

And I’m a huge misspeller, and haven’t had a problem with OpenOffice or any of my linux dictionaries. AND I’m able to correct spelling in Esperanto, MSWord doesn’t support that for sure ;-)