good ofice substitute for win 7
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farmgirl19
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Add one more to the Open Office users. I began using it a couple of years ago, and use it with Win 7.
George2615
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Kingsoft is what I use for basic documents on my Win 8 desktop.
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all we need in the back office is to be able to open spreadsheets and word docs.
as it is now.. he emails them to me, I convert them to something like rtf ( for the word docs ).. or the spreadsheets i print inter office.. etc..
as it is now.. he emails them to me, I convert them to something like rtf ( for the word docs ).. or the spreadsheets i print inter office.. etc..
dirt ditch
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I used Open Office with good result for years until my boys needed MS Office for school and it's license was good for 3 computers.
MikeFarm
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Hiya
Vote +1 for Open Office or Libre office. They are open source AND the file format OpenDocument (odf) is an open standard (ISO 26300) AND both will do all of your requirements. Here is a recent review with a quick compare of Libre vs OO:
What LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice Have Taught Me and there are other reviews, just search Google. Best is just pick say LibreOffice (make sure its the official Libre site) and install and play with it. The interface will be different to MS Word but not more so than the next version of MS Word is to the present one
(The entire story of word processing document file formats is decades long and very nasty from one particular company.)
Mike
Vote +1 for Open Office or Libre office. They are open source AND the file format OpenDocument (odf) is an open standard (ISO 26300) AND both will do all of your requirements. Here is a recent review with a quick compare of Libre vs OO:
What LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice Have Taught Me and there are other reviews, just search Google. Best is just pick say LibreOffice (make sure its the official Libre site) and install and play with it. The interface will be different to MS Word but not more so than the next version of MS Word is to the present one
(The entire story of word processing document file formats is decades long and very nasty from one particular company.)
Mike