when Google provided an office productivity suite, similar to that of Microsoft Office, I was very excited to give it a shot.

Most people would fine it fine for their day to day needs with the added bonus that you can go from one computer to another and have access to the same program and a centralized data storage.

However..... and this is an important one, you need to have internet access. To me, that's a big issue. It never fails that when you most need to access your document, you can't because the internet connection is down ( and it does not make a difference weather you go to one machine or another in that problem network).

One thing that I do keep around with me is a portable storage device for a usb port. Most people would call it a usb storage key. Openoffice, a free application, has a compact usb version that can reside on your usb key. 

Now you can literally go from one machine to another and work on your documents without worrking if the pc has the program you need to access them. the big plus here is that you don't need to have internet access.

Just make sure that the pc your trying to use has a usb port ( yup, it was too good to be true).

the good news is that most machine will have a usb port or two.  and most usb storage keys will also have the openoffice app already installed. 

If not, don't worry, I have provided the link with this post.

OpenOffice.org Portable