[Shop-talk] software

[Donald H Locker]

I'll add my voice for the LibreOffice.org products. LibreOffice is very
good at reading M$ files (and has the older, more familiar to me) menu
interface. PDF export is excellent. I strongly prefer LibreOffice over
M$ products.

I have not used OpenOffice for about ten years (since Oracle swallowed
it and stopped progress. OO has since moved to Apache, but I found
LibreOffice to be generally more reliable.)

HTH,
Donald.
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On 2020-10-06 3:39 p.m., 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. 
> 
> 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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