Yes OpenOffice is compatible with all other office suite, like staroffice, MS Office and others. You have calc for replacement of excel files, writer for word replacement, Impress for Powerpoint replacement, Base for access database alternatives and a bonus of draw for replacement of gimp, MS Paint and Photoshop. For getting OpenOffice You can download it at: http://www.openoffice.org or you can buy the Professional official release CD or DVD to http://www.openofficecd.com for installing it into any number of computers. Hope this Answer will be helpful.
Office 2007 will run on Windows7 but some changes made and released in Office 2010 take better advantage of the Windows7 interface.
I recommend free office suite provides by OpenOffice. It is compatible with MS Office, as usable, but for free. Practically all operating systems support OpenOffice.
Yes you can open MS Office 2000 documents with OpenOffice and it's cousins LibreOffice (my favorite just now) ApacheOffice (havn't tried it yet but might soon). You can save OpenOffice documents in MS Office 2000 formats too.
You would need to use the 'save as' command in OpenOffice and save the file as MS Office format.
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Yes - MS Office can read OpenOffice documents.
Just open it as if it was an OpenOffice document. OpenOffice will read MS Works documents quite happily, and you can either save them as OpenOffice or MS Works formats.
openoffice.org is a great free alternative to ms office. it is completely compatible withe everything but ms publisher
A replacement for MS Office (expensive) is either OpenOffice or LibreOffice (both free).
Yes it is. All you have to do is press "save as" and then save it as an ODT presentation.
Yes - the student's work will be able to be viewed by the instructor using MS office.
The two main differences are:- MS Office has to be paid for - OpenOffice is free to download, and... MS Office is a copyright program - OpenOffice is 'open source' This means that Microsoft will NOT licence the end user (you and me) to make changes to their program. Open source means OpenOffice is capable of being edited by the end user to suit their needs.