Thread: windows office

There are plenty of alternatives.

However, if you work with customers with which you need to exchange documents, Office is a must.
Compatibility works only so far. And if you have docs with pictures, tables, graphs etc, they become borked pretty quickly is you edit them in a 'compatible' editor.

For the sake of homework I agree with you. It shouldn't matter. But of course, it your layout looks borked, the first impression your document will make is not a good one.

Since '95 I have taught Business Studies and Info Tech and or used Office in my job. I consider myself pretty good at using Office, I can write some Visual Basic code and answer pretty much any question my students ask. I'm not an expert in VB, but can certainly 'hack' other people's code to work for me. However, in the latest version (Office 10) I'm completely lost. I know where to find the command via the menu in any other version. I use Access a LOT at work, I have created my own database to run the Education centre (students' classes, enrolments, etc) and if I could run Access in LibreOffice or Open Office I'd probably use that.

I never had a real problem with any previous Office versions, or in fact Windows since 3.11 and DOS. We're all just being led along my the nose to upgrade constantly, and for very little reason as far as I can tell.

I created a peer to peer network the other day for my UNI students using Linux and LibreOffice. We had a few teething problems (like needing to install a dictionary) but it picked up the printer easily via the Windows server we hooked it in to. Six computers were donated (I work in a prison) so, other than 150 bucks for the switch, cables etc it was essentially cost neutral. It took me maybe ten minutes to work out how to use headers and footers , page numbering (Page x of y) and access the page setup options (margins, etc). The General Manager is VERY happy we got away with this for pretty much no cost as opposed to several thousand (Office and Windows). None of the students (who are used to Windows and Office) have mentioned any negative comments.

Twenty years ago only a very small number of people in an org had a PC on their desk; now everyone has. The cost is ridiculous. Open Source software is essentially a 'socialist' version of Microsoft products.

I could rant for a little while about the fall of capitalism that is currently taking place, but NK will probably bring an end to the 'Net before I finish typing, so I shall desist...

Can I throw in another option.... Google docs through google drive. They can be downloaded as a microsoft format or pdf formatted if needed for transfer. Provides spredsheet, word processing and presentation software. Couple drawbacks as far as I'm concerned is that you need to be online to edit. But for me thats not a big issue and also means i can work on spreadsheets and documents on my phone on the move. Amd the other is that there is no editing via mobile phones for presentations. But you can view them on phone.

Geek

Originally Posted by Datsots

. For those like JimmyHAD that help with live church presentations I suggest and use OpenLP in conjunction with LibreOffice.

Jonathan

Thank Jonathan,
We/I have been looking for software for sometime but refuse to pay hundreds of dollars for EasyWorship, WorshipPro and the like...