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What is the best Office editing program?

6 replies · 4,932 views · Started 16 January 2008

I want to buy one of the editing software. Just wondering what do people think?

N95 8GB has Quickoffice 4 on it and i am trialing Officesuite as well.

Both seem to display a little differently. Both arent accurate although Quickoffice changes formating abit more but is more readable(i guess).

Any recommendations?

I use QuickOffice 4.5 and it works well. I use it to keep track of my food intake since I'm on a weight watchers diet. Problem is I bought it less than two weeks before v5 came out, which includes support for office 07 documents too. I really would've liked that but they are refusing to let me upgrade for free since they never advertised the fact they were upgrading so soon.

I've tried both QuickOffice and Officesuite and chose QuickOffice in the end. I think the original decision was based on a document I veiwed in both having less problems with QuickOffice, and ultimately that it was easier to purchase OTA and upgrade the free version that cane with the phone. I also quite like their QuickManager. I guess the fact that I use their Adobe Reader sort of means I'm a QuickOffice fan. 😊

kontraband wrote:is it good enough to be added to the 'good apps' sticky?

Well it is sort of essential if you are involved with any Office doc, so probably yes. I guess the fact that the Read Only version is already included sort of negates the value a little. WRT the Adobe reader part, I'm well impressed with it, as I deal with 4mb files frequently and it hasn't mucked up one yet.

kontraband wrote:is it good enough to be added to the 'good apps' sticky?

I think it's safe to say it can be. It has Office 07 document support and, as far as I know, Microsoft's cross-OS rival OpenOffice doesn't even do that.