Open Office Question

Please forgive my ignorance here...

I have OpenOffice (3.2) on this machine.

That being the case, do I really need these three MS programs:

1. MS Office Word Viewer 2003
2. MS ExcelViewer
3. MS File Format Converters

- is it not redundant to have them since I already have OpenOffice?

 

Open Office will open documents from Word and Excel, if that is what you are asking. Not sure what you mean about the third.:confused
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I`m sure opinions will vary, but in my opinion if you have to deal with various ms office documents from different years, I would keep em. The ms programs you show take up less than 100mb of space, and although OO is supposed to be able to work well with ms office docs, there could always be that one that it will have a problem with, and in that case you will have a backup ms program to work with. One time frustration of having a problem trying to make OO work with a ms office doc, and you`ll be glad you kept them. That said, it`s your system, and you`re really the only one that knows how you use it in conjunction with OO, and Microsoft Office docs.

 

Thank you both. I'm not really sure either.

I "think" (?) MS Office Word Viewer came with this Dell running Vista Home (which I purchased in January 2008). *Correction - it appears I downloaded this several months ago*

I believe I downloaded/installed Excel Viewer from MS (no charge/free) because I thought that I "needed" it.

And the MS File Format Converters was also from the MS website ... I downloaded it but have never installed it (not really even sure what it does...exactly??).

I don't work with (or very rarely would) MS office docs - just looking to cleanup the machine.

Lastly, it appears to me that MS has an updated Word Viewer anyway http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&displaylang=en (I get soooo confused by all of this "stuff"?!?).

Thanks, I think I'm going to lose the MS stuff as I feel pretty comfortable with OO, and I think (?) I could get the MS stuff back from their website (for free) if I ever needed it (if I ever needed them) - correct?

 

Yea, I have decided to change my opinion , (reconsidered),that is what I would do, always an option, delete all your Microsoft Office software programs you have, and go all the way with OO. I mean what the heck, if you are only dealing with minimal amounts of docs, what the heck right, Microsoft will always offer support for all their software you will ever need forever right, just like support for all their operating systems since day one.