Open
Office is the open source application suite of office programs, similar
to Microsoft Office but without the price tag. It's completely free.
The
chances are that you will have Microsoft Office already, as it is very
effectively bundled with computers when they are sold. What makes Open
Office attractive, however, is that you can use it in conjunction with
Microsoft's product to save money further.
In
particular, you can use Open Office to create PDF ebooks (PDF stands
for Portable Document File, which means it is an ebook which can be
read and used on any platform, whether it's PC, Mac or whatever). Until
Open Office PDFs could only be created by buying Adobe Acrobat Writer,
which costs $299 for the standard edition direct from Adobe.
All
you do is export your Word documents into the Open Office format, then
use the PDF utility within Open Office to make PDF ebooks, thus saving
quite a lot of money as you won't need to buy Acrobat.
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