<p>I do not have Microsoft Office, because my computer didn't come with it, and I didn't want to be the 100 bucks or whatever to buy it. I instead found a free solution (OpenOffice.org) which has been great up to this point.</p>
<p>For my English class, we wrote three five page papers in six weeks, and the teacher is giving us the opportunity to revise them and turn them in on the last day of the semester (this Thursday). To do this, he wants us to use the compare doc feature that exists in Microsoft Office 2007. Obviously, this presents a bit of a problem for me as I do not have Microsoft Office 2007.</p>
<p>My question is, for anyone that uses Open Office, is there a compare documents function that compares to the one in Microsoft? I am aware of the Edit -> Compare Document, but it just doesn't work the same. One comma causes it to show the entire paragraph as changed.</p>
<p>Thanks,
Matt</p>
<p>Is this high school? How could the teacher expect everyone in the class to use Office 2007? If you tell him you don’t have the program he should let you do something else.</p>
<p>I think that you might just have to go to your University computer lab and swap the document out to MS Word, save everything in a flash drive and just be done with it. </p>
<p>Professors just do that kind of stuff sometimes.</p>
<p>Like, I am on the verge of graduating and one of the rules of my University changed. We now are allowed to finally use non programmable calculators in the higher maths courses (as opposed to none at all) and the big silliness is what exact brand the head of the math department will let everyone use and dictate to buy. I feel like trying to learn how to use a slide rule and an abacus just to mess with everyone. </p>
<p>Open Office has a really nice wiki that might help you…</p>
<p>[OpenOffice.org</a> Wiki](<a href=“http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page]OpenOffice.org”>Apache OpenOffice Wiki)</p>