[Shop-talk] software

[John P. New]

LibreOffice (libreoffice.org) is what I use daily and have been for almost the past decade (when it forked from OpenOffice, which I had been using the decade before that).

Aside from some formatting differences, a Microsoft file will open in LibreOffice; files produced in LibreOffice will open in Microsoft's software. LibreOffice exports to .pdf format.

Don't use OpenOffice; it has had security issues and a lack of development over the past 5 years or so, and a new version hasn't been released in over a year (one sign that it heading for irrelevance).

John New
London, Ontario, Canada

On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 3:39:18 PM EDT Tim . 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.
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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.
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> Thanks all
> tim
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