BabyFaceLee
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MS Office 2016 subscription model and a couple of Exchange Online accounts. I rely heavily on Outlook and OneNote in particular and as the company I work for uses Office 2010 I'm more than happy to keep with Microsoft.
Productivity software, what do you use? Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Google Docs, other?
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CajunMoses
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Why is that? Is it because you don't like using free Web apps that you don't have to install and continually update? Or is it that you don't like your documents to save themselves automatically to secure Cloud storage? I tried using Google Docs, Sheet, and Slides and they're all top shelf products. Now I can't imagine simpler or more secure way of editing and securing document files.
Evernessince
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I think anything you use at work you aren't going to want to use at home, that just reminds you of work.
I made the switch from MS Office to LibreOffice just this year. Even though I'm MS Office master certified I find that Office has had too many, very annoying, long term bugs that MS refuses to fix for some reason. For example, there are many occasions where I set the page to vertically and horizontally centered yet it won't actually print out centered. You have to revert to an older save of the file in order to get it to work. I couldn't care less about the change to the ribbon, I always use hotkeys to do everything anyways.
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CortyDK
Apache Open Office 4.1.2.
Works perfectly and has all the functions I need, and more...
Works perfectly and has all the functions I need, and more...
I'm not using productivity software that much (except in the sense enemys mentioned). When I do it's either Google Docs or Wordpad. When I wrote more seriously I used to use TextMaker (from Softmaker Office), because it's lightweight, well featured and has good Microsoft Office compatibility (it was better than Open Office at the time, in several ways).
dob_1
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I use Excel and Publisher from Microsoft Office, I have 2013 but for me the ribbon ruined it and Office 2003 was the best version so I still stick to them except when I have to open the newer version. I still use WordPerfect as my word processor, been with it since version 4.2, now have 18 and I believe it's always been a much better Word Processor than Word - a few clicks and the jobs done while in Word you are still clicking away! Better graphics inclusion, and merging, not to mention footnotes etc. Everything seem simpler.
Kibaruk
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Competitors is a hard word, I would have used maybe alternative software at most. Although I do use google docs on a light way every now and then for online documents, non of the alternatives come close to Microsoft's Office, this is specially true at least on the thing that matters to the real Office users, Excel.
Office 365, tuned to Office 2003 .doc (etc.) for universal compatibility. The monthly rate is fair and keeping it tuned to latest update allows maximum usability. Open Office (or the current variant) is my recommend to the financially-strapped or non-professional users for its cost (free), compatibility and features. Everyone else is just being petulant about conformity.
Timonius
Posts: 648 +58
LibreOffice (after OpenOffice sold), and Google Docs.
MS Office can bite me, it has been the main source of document compatibility issues for as long as I can remember. Some people can not afford the office suite and resort to free and open source packages. This created a rift of compatibility between users. Of course MS Office tends to win because 'everyone else is using it' and that is what they are used to. I think the divide has narrowed over the years though thanks to better file standards.
MS Office can bite me, it has been the main source of document compatibility issues for as long as I can remember. Some people can not afford the office suite and resort to free and open source packages. This created a rift of compatibility between users. Of course MS Office tends to win because 'everyone else is using it' and that is what they are used to. I think the divide has narrowed over the years though thanks to better file standards.
Kibaruk
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Sorry but let me break it to you, it's because of office usage, business, corporations. That's the problem, people still think these are targeted to home users.
I'll be honest, I only use LibreOffice, and occasionally Google Docs. Microsoft Office has its perks, but a lot of the features, I don't really use or need. I have no desire to shell out a ton of money, just for a software productivity suite. LibreOffice is every bit as good, stays updated, has a clean user interface, and it's not nearly as bloated (in terms of size) as Office. Google Docs is a bit lighter on the features side, but it works pretty good for what I need, when I'm working on something saved in the cloud. MS Office is great in its own right, but outside of the Corporate/Education sector, I don't see too many people spending a ridiculous amount of money for a license, or monthly/yearly subscription, just to type, do spreadsheets or create presentations.
How, exactly, is that the problem?
People use software that does what they want it to do. If someone needs interoperability with MS Office and none of the alternatives are sufficient, he needs MS Office-- what difference does it make whether MS has targeted enterprise or home users? It either meets your needs or it doesn't.
That was what the above was supposed to say. For some reason, the attribution got eaten... would be nice to be able to edit things, TS. Just saying. "Please double check" isn't a substitute.
@Ascaris you can edit in forum mode: https://www.techspot.com/community/...-google-docs-other.229553/page-2#post-1561279
I use OpenOffice 4.1.1 - I used to use Microsoft Office many years ago and liked it, but got tired of paying $100.00 for the privilege. My wife uses WordPerfect 8. We are not in need of so many bells and whistles and don't like the browser-based versions that seem to be popular. I guess we're old school. And, I tried LibreOffice but was dismayed when I found that it lacked some important (to me) features that OpenOffice had.
If I were to go back to college, I guess I would have to invest in MS Office once again because it's the standard that everybody wants, but my favorite is OpenOffice.
If I were to go back to college, I guess I would have to invest in MS Office once again because it's the standard that everybody wants, but my favorite is OpenOffice.
Kibaruk
Posts: 3,836 +1,189
That's it.
liammac002
Posts: 46 +12
I use docs mainly because that's what our school uses.
delluel
Posts: 39 +7
I'm still on open-office. Microsoft might as well have shot themselves in the foot when they revamped office a few years ago. Worst software revamp ever, and that decision will keep me away from Microsoft for everything except windows. Mostly because I feel they only changed it up to get away from open-source office software and somehow get the whole world trained on the new style so they wouldn't want to go to open-source alternatives since they had already learned the new office style. Microsoft has a knack for not wanting to give people what they want and instead giving them what microsoft wants them to have. Same thing as not coming up with any new screensavers in the last 20 years. There were more screensavers on 95 than there are in 10. They should be buying windowsblinds but they are instead trying to trap everyone into what they offer and only what they offer.
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