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 - Greatly improvedStarOffice 7's usability has been imroved significantly over the prior versions. As before, it runs on multiple platforms (which is essential for me). No more crashes (the application can run for several weeks without restart on my Solaris box). User interface is improved as well: faster and more intuitive. StarOffice has comes with same functionality as MS office (at a fraction of the cost) and there are no problems with MS office interoperability!! Rating: - works fineI use StarOffice every day without the slightest difficulty. Writer imports .doc files without any font problems (this is on Windows), Calc and Impress are fine as well. I'm very glad not to have to pay $500 - more than the price of a PC! - to Micro$oft. I have to wonder about the legitimacy some of the reviews below. For instance, all those who give StarOffice one star and compare it unfavorably to OpenOffice. StarOffice is *based* on OpenOffice ... the look and feel and functionality are *identical*; StarOffice is just enhanced to do a better job of reading MS Office files. Makes no sense at all to love OpenOffice and give StarOffice one star. Methinks Bill's droids are trying to game the system. Rating:  - Is zero stars possibleAbsolutely the worst Office Suite I have ever used and purchased. If you want to be aggravated by non-working applications, errors coverting MS Office Docs, Excel spread-sheets and database-java script errors then this is for you. For the rest of the user community use MS Office 2003, I purchased this and I am never considering anyother alternative. Rating:  - Need to correct somethingI have not purchased StarOffice 7 because I am quite happy with StarOffice 6, and you can't buy an cheaper upgrade, you have to buy a whole new version. StarOffice 6 is a wonderful alternative to the MS Office, matching its (exceeding it in some cases) feature set for a fraction of the cost. To correct a point that Rachel mentioned about losing spreadsheet data. If you see ### in your columns, you need to re-size the columns. They're showing up as ### because the columns are too narrow. Anyhow, using StarOffice 6, the only problems I have had with MS Office documents are when there are extensive scripts in spreadsheets, or fancy formatting in text documents. Even then, they open with some easy-to-fix formatting glitches. Not wide-scale information loss. Most MS to StarOffice conversions are a breeze. If you routinely share MS-Office-generated documents, StarOffice may not be your best bet. But for most businesses, nearly all home and student users, StarOffice is a superb alternative. Rating: - Finally an office for the rest of usI have use the expensive ms office for years. Its cumbersome and too expensive. Finally, a truly easy to use and great alternative. Im done with the m$ office. The calc program and the presentation program are better than the m$ but I think the best is the word processor. As a teacher I recommend this. It is truly easy and fun to use.
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