[Shop-talk] software

[Mark Andy]

Howdy,

Take a look at Libre Office.  It's one of the main free/open source
solutions that are out there.  Been using it for years at home because I'm
too cheap to buy MS Office stuff like I use at work.  Comparing the two,
its very, very rare that I run into something I do at work in MS Office
that I struggle with in Libre Office.

Another choice might be Google Docs.  More of a cloud thing, but if you're
already in the Google universe and particularly if you have ChromeBooks for
stuff, Google Docs is pretty solid.  Again, for generic / standard use,
that should do everything you need it to.

Both will certainly print things to a PDF.  :)

Mark

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 3:41 PM Tim . <tims_datsun_stuff at outlook.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> This Win10 machine won't run this old software. No surprise there.
>
> 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.
>
> I looked at open source but there are so many that I quickly got confused.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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