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  • J Joan M

    Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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    OriginalGriff
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    LibreOffice - I hate Word, and am not a fan of the subscription model either. If write a document, I want to be able to read in in five years time ... without buying the software again.

    Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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    • J Joan M

      Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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      Eric Lynch
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      My choice is unlike the prevailing business model for most companies (MS-included): -subscription and +freedom. Still on Office 2010 here.

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      • J Joan M

        Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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        PIEBALDconsult
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        Office 2003. (You asked.)

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        • J Joan M

          Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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          Mycroft Holmes
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          I just cancelled my 365 subscription, I REALLY do not like buying the software every year. I have so little use for anything but email that Google tools meet my needs.

          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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          • J Joan M

            Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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            Jorgen Andersson
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            There has been no changes to office that I care for for fifteen years. I'd definitely buy.

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            • J Joan M

              Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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              Slacker007
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              365 as it has monthly payment subscription plans and it is mobile, files can be saved locally or in Valhalla.

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              • J Joan M

                Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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                S Douglas
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                Notepad++ saved to text file; always readable. You asked. :)


                Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.

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                • M Mycroft Holmes

                  I just cancelled my 365 subscription, I REALLY do not like buying the software every year. I have so little use for anything but email that Google tools meet my needs.

                  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                  Slacker007
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                  Mycroft Holmes wrote:

                  Google tools meet my needs

                  as with most people and their personal software requirements. :thumbsup:

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                    365 as it has monthly payment subscription plans and it is mobile, files can be saved locally or in Valhalla.

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                    PIEBALDconsult
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                    Valhalla isn't secure.

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                    • P PIEBALDconsult

                      Office 2003. (You asked.)

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                      Ravi Bhavnani
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                      Ha ha!  Me too!  :thumbsup: +5 /ravi

                      My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

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                      • S Slacker007

                        Mycroft Holmes wrote:

                        Google tools meet my needs

                        as with most people and their personal software requirements. :thumbsup:

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                        Mycroft Holmes
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                        And they have more than enough detail on me that a few minor documents are not going to make a difference.

                        Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                        • J Joan M

                          Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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                          thatraja
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                          Apache OpenOffice[^]

                          thatraja

                          Coming soon1 | Coming soon2 | Coming soon3New

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                            For private use it is: LibreOffice At Job, my Boss pays the bill, so I have no Option here :)

                            It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

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                            dan sh
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                            0x01AA wrote:

                            LibreOffice

                            Why do you hate yourself?

                            "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                              LibreOffice - I hate Word, and am not a fan of the subscription model either. If write a document, I want to be able to read in in five years time ... without buying the software again.

                              Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                              dan sh
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                              OriginalGriff wrote:

                              LibreOffice

                              Oh boy, you hate yourself too!?

                              "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                              • J Joan M

                                Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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                                dan sh
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                                None. When I bought laptop a little over year ago, the store gave me an option. I either get free headphone or Office Home edition. I took Office. :cool: I would probably opt for one time payment though if I have to. Plus, I would try and buy an older version if I can as I do not really have that intensive Office usage.

                                "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                                  LibreOffice

                                  Oh boy, you hate yourself too!?

                                  "It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[^]

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                                  OriginalGriff
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                                  What can I say? It's not the best looking, it's not the smoothest - but it works. The best WP was AmiPro / Lotus WordPro, but that died when the MS marketing machine rolled over the top of it and Word became the standard. Well, "this weeks standard" anyway - they changed file format so often that you had to upgrade to share documents with customers. Word is a pretty bad WP - clumsy, bloated, and awkward - and I hate using it. LibreOffice Word may not be as polished, but it's easier to use for the most part. Excel however ... the world's greatest spreadsheet. Calc works, but it's nowhere near The Master! :laugh:

                                  Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

                                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                                  • J Joan M

                                    Continuous updates? 365 One payment? 2019 Which is your choice?

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                                    F ES Sitecore
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                                    Got this dilemma at the moment, was intended on buying outright, but the cost of buying is six years 365, and in six years time and I still going to be using it? Probably not so I'm edging toward 365. Worse case it'll all come out in the wash.

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                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      What can I say? It's not the best looking, it's not the smoothest - but it works. The best WP was AmiPro / Lotus WordPro, but that died when the MS marketing machine rolled over the top of it and Word became the standard. Well, "this weeks standard" anyway - they changed file format so often that you had to upgrade to share documents with customers. Word is a pretty bad WP - clumsy, bloated, and awkward - and I hate using it. LibreOffice Word may not be as polished, but it's easier to use for the most part. Excel however ... the world's greatest spreadsheet. Calc works, but it's nowhere near The Master! :laugh:

                                      Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                                      Mike Winiberg
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                                      Agree re Word - it is almost nothing like a word-processor, and after all these years and revisions can still get into such a knot with complex formats that your document becomes unmanageable. I still buy and use Wordperfect - been my favourite since the days of DOS version 4.2. They still struggle to achieve compatability with Word documents though, because of MS secret sauce that sometimes even the Word devs don't seem to know about! (I've got a doc prepared with an older version of Word here that the latest version cannot open because it uses some feature that Word doesn't support any more - WP opens it though!) I note Corel trying to move to a subscription model too now, be a great shame if that happens...

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                                      • P PIEBALDconsult

                                        Office 2003. (You asked.)

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                                        ElHori
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                                        Me too! Dislike the Ribbon-UI introduced in Office 2007. Don't care much for any of the new features (except spark-lines in Excel, *sigh*). 2003 can read / write later versions' XML-based fileTypes docx / xlsx / etc. albeit only after installing the Compatibility-pack-update. But the main benefit, the icing on the cake: Starting ye olde Excel 2003 takes as little time as starting the calculator or notepad :-) While even on a very powerful, up-to-date PC with NVMe-SSD, many cores and all bells and whistles starting one of the later MS Office programs takes forever, thanks to all the bloat (and animated splash-screens and stuff). Current LibreOffice isn't much better either in that respect.

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                                        • P PIEBALDconsult

                                          Valhalla isn't secure.

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                                          Slacker007
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                                          Sure it is; it's Valhalla, for Viking's sake! :laugh:

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