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Thanks - makes sense.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Office. The amount of time between when I get bored and decide to play with the most recent version of OO/LO and start swearing because of features moved/different VS where they are in the MS version is never more than an hour or two. This leads me to believe that the cost of my labor for the amount of time spent relearning the tool would quickly exceed the cost of an office license. Factor in less technical users struggling more with any retraining problem; and that at this point love or hate it most are probably more familiar with new ribbonized office versions than older menu/toolbar ones and I suspect the same would be true even for less skilled and lower paid workers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Also a reasonable point.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I'd use Microsoft Office. I remain unimpressed with Libre Office. On top of that, people know Microsoft Office, so you could easily end up with the false economy of saving money up front while spending more in the long run.
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Depends I guess, but I would lean towards MS Office either way.
Microsoft has a cool program called BizSpark, if you qualify as a small business and some other criteria, you can get a lot of MS products for free.
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I will admit to a large degree of bias before I make my recommendation.
I hate Word.
Always have. Probably always will. It's bloated, awkward, inconsistent, and difficult to use. The ribbon made this a lot worse. I really wish Lotus Word Pro had beaten it all those years ago, because even now, it's a better word processor.
Having got that out of the way, I'd recommend you go with Office.
I have tried to like OO / LO; I really, really have. But it's just not as good, or it is, but then... It all falls apart, and the frustration allows you to a crawl.
Besides, Excel is the best spreadsheet, bar none. Superb is the only word I can use.
What do I use? Office. And yes, that includes Word. Despite it being a bloated, awkward, ... Etc.
So why don't I use Lotus Word Pro? Because it isn't compatible with anything...
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If you are leaning towards MS Office, Office 360 can be installed on up to 5 devices. Prices range depending on which suite you get...for me it was $99 USD/year. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Interesting: thanks.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Quote: installed on up to 5 devices.
Careful, you can install it on up to 5 devices, but only a single user. That doesn't mean you can install it on Franks computer and Sally's computer, it means you can install it on Franks PC, his laptop, his tablet, etc.
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But that option is for personal use, not commercial.
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Open Office (Portable); simple, small, and understands the Word-format.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If you are only going to use Word and don't have to guarantee compatibility with other users/offices then use OO/LO. However, if you are going to need spreadsheets then Excel is unbeatable, period. Once you have got Excel you might as well get the rest as they are mostly integrated. Powerpoint isn't the greatest tool, but it's not bad and that is the standard the world works to.
In fact Office is the standard setter (for better or worse, it's a standard) so if you have any other tools they will be designed to work with Office primarily. Go with Office, it's usually been a false economy to go anywhere else in my opinion. I even use Office at home and unlike others, I like it - but then I started with Office 2.0 for DOS and have adapted as time went on. Periodically I have updated my older documents easily to the latest format so will never hopefully find any problems with backwards compatibility.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I actually go through that exercise every couple years to see if I can ditch MS. The last iteration was around Feb 2013 and afterward I settled on Office 365. Since I am a small office, the 5 licenses make sense for me.
If I had 100's of licenses, I might think differently, but I don't, so I didn't.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Are you using a commercial license? Because I thought the $99/year 5 license variety was for personal use only.
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If you are a talking about an IT business, become a MS Partner, then sign up for the Microsoft Action Pack Subscription. Several hundred dollars per year (varies by region) for ten licences of Office etc (plus one licence of server products) for internal use.
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Libre Office is OK, but Kingsoft Office[^] is a less traumatic leap from MS Office.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 20-Aug-13 1:35am.
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Linky no worky - 404 in Han Chinese...
(But I use Kingsoft Office on my Android tablet, and so far it's handled my Office docs with style and panache)
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Weird. The CP paste mechanism had cut the second "e" off the word "free" at the end of the URL.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah - it happens all the time.
I'm guessing that you highlighted the "Kingsoft" link text and pasted a link onto it? Because that's when it happens to me - it's something to do with the relative lengths of the tlink and the link text. I've reported it before, but it's still there!
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm guessing that you highlighted the "Kingsoft" link text and pasted a link onto it?
yup.
I normally paste the link first, then overwrite the link text, but this time I'd already typed the name, so I used what appears to be the buggy version.
Well, at least I know the workaround -- "Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I do this!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hassle is that thats the natural way to do it for me: type the name, highlight it, right click, select "Search Google for...", then copy the link from there. Grrr! 
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Stick with MSOffice. As good as the clone may be, the original remains better, and you are not hassled with all the compatibilities issues.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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So it struck me that it's possible - perhaps even likely - that some of the star characters of the CodeProject are, in fact, really a group sharing a single sign in. A communal species.
Than, having already been struck, I began to muse as to whether or not it mattered - so what if some of you are effectively polyps on a virtual jellyfish of intellect.
Alas, taking a step back and thinking fractally, I realized that that each forum is really such a collective. The collection of forums is no more, conceptually, than a larger forum.
One of many such forums on the internet collective.
So, we're all polyps of a vast virtual jellyfish. This far into the post, I don't even care anymore.
I'm just going to go home (really) and ingest some IPA, and thereby avoid any further thoughts on this or any other matter.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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By the sound of it, you've already ingested something.
How long have you had a jellyfish (which aren't fish, or made of jelly - it's a thick, elastic gelatinous material called mesoglea) fixation?
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^ Sorry, I meant to post that under my MehGerbil account.
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