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Personally I like LibreOffice, as it has a ton of features. It is a very active fork of OpenOffice that was created when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, due to fears about what Oracle would do to the suite. It even has LDAP Support (e.g. Active Directory)[^]!!!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Ditto, though I've found Publisher and Outlook hard to leave behind.
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: Ditto, though I've found Publisher and Outlook hard to leave behind.
If a customer would ask me to do something in Publisher, i would role laughing on the floor. Of course I could do for a minimum 2000 Euros per Hour, but it's lost lifetime. I could do the same with Indesign (or another Desktop-Publishing software) in a quarter of time, I could do it better, it would look nicer and I would have fun doing it.
MS Publisher is the silliest bunch of crap I ever started on my computer.
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That's a valid opinion. but I don't think it's helpful in this context.
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: That's a valid opinion. but I don't think it's helpful in this context.
You are right. But when I read something about "MS Publisher" I automatically change to be a rant troll. Sorry.
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No worries. Rants are fine from time to time, but I'm very wary of trolls at the moment so don't be too surprised if I reach for the halberd.
Anna
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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If you are connected to the Internet all the time, take a look at MS Office Online[^]. It is free and may be enough for your needs.
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Thanks. That seems to be better choice compared to Google Docs. I was looking for something similar, probably I didn't try hard. Thanks.
Thanks,
Milind
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If you shop online you can find a single installation license which cannot transfer. You can get Office Enterprise for less than $100.
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Google Docs is good. their Sheet thing isn't as powerful as Excel (nothing is), but it's good for basic stuff.
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I've tried the various OpenOffice products and hated them.
Office 365 Personal can be purchased from Amazon for $69.99!
If desperate, log into your OneDrive account and use the online Office stuff; it's pretty fantastic.
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OpenOffice and Google Docs. Both great and both free.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I used OpenOffice a while back.
I didn't like it because... it looks like it is compatible with MS Office, in most ways, but is just enough different to drive you nuts. If you are handing off any documents in electronic form to an office user (or vice versa) you could get into compatibility/display problems which will look unprofessional.
On the other hand, if none of the documents will leave your computer, and it is just for tracking your own information, it will be fine.
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Kingsoft rocks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It cost like $200 to buy Word and Excel. I'm not *that* pro MS usually, but $200 for all the crap you can do with those two programs isn't that bad of a deal.
That being said, last I checked OpenOffice was extremely compatible. Just as another alternative, the KDE project makes Calligra[^].
Jeremy Falcon
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POV - US$200 seen from India is one hell of a lot more than US$200 seen from US (or Singapore for that matter).
I could be disparaging about Indians not wanting to spend money on software when they are in the industry but that would be bigoted/racist or just plain rude!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: but $200 for all the crap you can do with those two programs isn't that bad of a deal.
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Since you mentioned programming related, I assume you are doing VBA macro for your customers.
Your customers are most likely use MS office, and your programming work with Office alternates will not able to use in their environment. I believe Office 365 Home is the cheapest solution.
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Used OpenOffice for many years, actually still have it installed on my personal laptop. Works just great
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I used to use OpenOffice, but Oracle stuffed it up. I've since changed to LibreOffice for PC and Kingsoft WPS for tablet. Navigating tables within word documents has a few odd quirks within LibreOffice, but they are easily dealt with.
I deal with documents of a sensitive nature and have limited resources, so web-based and Office365 are off the table.
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Basically it all depends on how advanced a user you are, and what your requirements are.
Personally I find LibreOffice is more than up to the task for my needs. I prefer it to OpenOffice for personal reasons.
If your requirements are more basic, I recommend Google Docs. The collaboration and sharing features are excellent, and its always nice having cloud access to your stuff when you are out of home/office. On top of which you can access and use it on your phone if necessary.
I use GoogleDocs for most of my needs, and keep Libre around, just in case there is a new docx/xlsx from a client that I need to open, and docs is on the fritz.
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I know everyone has supplied an opinion so l thought l would join in.
If just need the basics nothing fancy such as creating macros get either google docs or office online l use what's built into onedrive.com. Both do the basics and if your client has internet connection can easily collaborate with your client by sharing the document. Or download document and email.
Need a little more? then Librie Office is good can open and save microsoft formats. Ohh and its free you can get hold of a portable version at portableapps.com as well. Its not quite the same as MS Office however it can do 99% of the things you might want to do.
HTH
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