[Shop-talk] software

[Tim .]

Used Libre today for a spread sheet I use to keep track of household bills. So far am happy with it. Thanks all!
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From: Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Tim . <tims_datsun_stuff at outlook.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 2:39 PM
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Subject: [Shop-talk] software

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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