Love it or hate it, we all have to make a living somehow. Reports, letters, email - blah blah blah… One of the most annoying things about most office jobs is that you end up taking your work home with you.
So as well as working 7-8 hours at the office, there’s the commute on the train either side, which can easily add another hour or two to your daily routine. Then you end up doing more work when you get home over dinner! It’s never ending - or so it seems…
Well it doesn’t have to be that way! A netbook can help you to take advantage of the time you spend commuting on the train to do the bits of work you would normally do whilst eating dinner.
Just think of all the attributes that make a netbook ideal for resting on your lap whilst sitting on a train; they are light, small, highly portable, and best of all are capable of running office software, email and internet.
You’re probably thinking, “That’s sounds good, but I really don’t want to have to invest hundreds of pounds or dollars in an office suite of applications…” Well you don’t because Open Office is a free office productivity suite that has all the applications that you would expect - word processor, spreadsheet, database, and presentation programs.
As well as Open Office being free, each of the applications can read and write Microsoft Office document file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) as well as the latest XML files. There’s even an option to default to open and save in those file formats as opposed to the native Open Office ones.
Another hugely useful feature is the ability to create PDF files at the touch of a button from whichever document you’re working on.
Just think of the possibilities if you have mobile broadband. Fire out all those reports and documents for tomorrows schedule the night before, so you can go home and relax!
Open Office is free and available here for Linux or Windows, in more than 20 different languages.
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