[Shop-talk] software

[Bob Spidell]

Look into ‘OpenOffice.’ It’s open source/shareware ... it has Word and Excel equivalents (dunno about pdf export though).


> On Oct 6, 2020, at 12:42 PM, Tim . <tims_datsun_stuff at outlook.com> wrote:
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> 
> Had to buy a new laptop. For years I've been using an office products suite license that I bought years ago. As each old laptop dies, I get another used one, move the license, etc etc. 
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> This Win10 machine won't run this old software. No surprise there. 
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> Sooooooo.....I need Word and Excel for my side hustle. I am not against buying stand alones if I have to but if I am seeing this correctly, they are now only "annual licenses" that would have to be renewed each year. What a crock...er, I mean racket. 
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> I looked at open source but there are so many that I quickly got confused. 
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> One thing that is a must have is creating an invoice in Word then saving it as a pdf for sending to our customers. If none of the open source stuff has this feature, then I'd be forced to go with Word. 
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> Shop content: I am selling buying and selling parts that are stored in my garage shop and my basement shop. 
> 
> Thanks all
> tim
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