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Rambo 6 - First degree
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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A couple of years ago I downloaded OpenOffice from the PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable, and cloud drives[^] site. I have it installed on another desktop machine that is only available to me via remoting.
I use OpenOffice Writer. It just so happens that the version (3.2.0) I downloaded was extremely good but I didn't exactly know that.
OpenOffice 4.x Chokes & Explodes
Here on my laptop I have a newer version of OpenOffice (4.x or something) and it is the non-portable version. When I open up my 250+ page document with over 200 images in it, it chokes and explodes. I tried it multiple times but it will not load the doc.
LibreOffice : Not So Great - Loads Slow / Scrolls Hardly
The portable version is on another computer so I decided to download the latest LibreOffice 5.1.x and try it out. It doesn't choke or explode but it takes it 1 to 2 minutes to load the document. After it loads I cannot scroll the document at all. I can move it about 2 lines at a time. Ridiculous.
Okay, so I went to the portableapps site and was going to download OpenOffice portable to this computer but it said it was going to take over an hour via sourceforge. What?
My Way: 10 Minutes
So I remoted to the machine I already have it on, zipped up the portable app again. Dropped it to my Google Drive and downloaded it here and unzipped it.
Loads & Scrolls : Amazing
I opened the document with the Portable App OpenOffice v3.2.0 and it opened the document in sub-seconds. And it live-scrolls -- redraws perfectly while scrolling -- over the entire 250+ page doc.
disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with portableapps.com or openoffice v3.2.0 
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For the LibreOffice issues, see this page[^] for some workarounds.
I use LibreOffice 5.x and I like it as it is very compatible.
For OpenOffice.org, I have no idea what could be causing the issues.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Thanks. I appreciate it. I will check it out.
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Despite what a lot of people bitch about, MSOffice is great, and if you know where to look, you can find legal licences for as low as $50 for the complete Pro suite.
I tried the free suites several times, I mean I really really gave them a chance, but I came back to MS Office after a couple of weeks every time.
disclaimer: I am not affiliated with ... well f*** it, I say what I want.
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Rage wrote: legal licences for as low as $50 for the complete Pro suite.
I would be concerned about the integrity of any software of this "class" purchased at such a discount, and concerned about whether the software would have "full legal" status in the eyes of MS so that future upgrades, etc., would be as available as if I purchased the "regular retail" version.
By expressing this "doubt," I do not mean to imply anything negative about you: more "power to you" if you know where to find such bargains.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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BillWoodruff wrote: I would be concerned about the integrity of any softwar
Yes, I was too, so I checked it directly with ... MS. No secret about it : some big companies buy sets of licenses that they do not use fully, and by upgrade to the next version sell the licences they had still in the pool but did not use. 100% legal.
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Even if MS Word was $200 US, I would still buy it. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Even if MS Word was $200 US, I would still buy it.
The Eye of Sauron of Redmond beholds Gollum ?
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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I'm an idiot, Bill; a simpleton. Please rephrase your question so a moron such as myself, can understand it. Thanks. 
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Slacker007 wrote: I'm an idiot, Bill; a simpleton.
That's very a clever ruse, but I believe you are practicing taqqiya with this statement. I understand the need for that; as Kierkegaard said:
"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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I'm not anti-office or anti-microsoft.
I switched a few years back when you could only buy MS-Word for many hundreds.
At the time I needed a good Word to PDF converter and MS-Word didn't have it built in.
Then I noticed OpenOffice had it for free -- about 1 year or so before Word added it.
I like the the MS subscription idea. It isn't too bad to get set up and the management console isn't bad for installing it to up to 5 computers.
I probably should try Word's doc to PDF conversion again though because maybe it's really good and I haven't noticed.
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Is she big for her age?
Or are you going to do some extensive testing on it until she is big enough to ride it - about 15 years time maybe? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Have you checked what date it is tomorrow? 
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Happy first birthday to your four year old!
I hope she has a good time, and the party doesn't get too out of hand...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, she's an extremely strong minded person already so the party has already gotten out of hand.
She only wants to invite the friends of her big brother since she's a "boy". The fact that she's missing crucial parts doesn't bother her the slightest.
We've been having a big row with her today about that she should actually invite her own friends instead, especially those that have invited her for their birthdays.
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Well, tomorrow is the day that peoples of the female persuasion get to propose and generally 'be the man' so really you don't have a leg to stand on. Give in gracefully or accept the consequences!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Explains a lot about her, doesn't it?
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An unreasonable female?
Hmmm, that has to be a first.
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That's a good one. You had me tricked too. I was thinking, "what kind of one-year old can ride a bike? maybe the bike is 6 inches tall or something? how can this happen?"
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Well, some thing you can't choose.
But at least she won't become a grown up until she's a pensioner.
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happy birthday to your daughter (and have a ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) or two yourselves, by the sounds of the conversation with OG etc, you're going to need drink)
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Considering everything that happens in my life at the moment I'm seriously underdrunk. But that's for a different post, eventually.
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