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adigaskell President


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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:22 pm Post subject: Do you use Open Office? |
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Just been reading that Oracle may be cutting support for Open Office. I use OO rather than MS Office so am kinda hoping this isn't true.
Anyone else an Open Office user? _________________ My social media blog |
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adigaskell President


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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Me too. Hopefully Oracle will continue to support it. _________________ My social media blog |
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if you must use Linux, you're kinda forced to use OpenOffice ..or if you want to avoid buying an enterprise license from Microsoft ...but besides that, I think MS Office is a litle over OO ( just my opinion, don't flame ). |
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:12 am Post subject: |
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OO is great. I only use it now when I have too as I use Pages and Number on Mac. I've used OO for years and always found it very easy to use. |
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paul President


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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using Google Docs primarily these days. I like the fact that I can just pick up where I left off, regardless whether I switch between home and work, or work from laptop elsewhere... _________________ UK Hotels - UK Selfcatering
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adigaskell President


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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Google Docs (or Drive) has improved a fair bit over the years. Of course another option is to still use a desktop solution but save your documents into something like DropBox.
Not quite as intuitive of course, but an option.
I've found the Word/Excel options in Drive pretty good to be honest, and things like Prezi are much better than PowerPoint. _________________ My social media blog |
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paul President


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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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And the other good thing about Google Docs I find is the simplicity with which you can search for a particular document... of course, that bit should be easy given Google's background. _________________ UK Hotels - UK Selfcatering
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:32 am Post subject: |
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I used google docs for years but the last while i start to rethink that.
It all started when the numbers in my spreadsheets did not make sense and i just didn't get it.
And then one day i did a sum of 4 columns that all had 0 in it and googles answer to the sum was -0.01
So then i decided that is why i started to doubt my other numbers so exported them to excel and there the numbers where correct.
Still use google spreadsheets a bit but looking hard to find the best replacement. _________________ George
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georgep Executive


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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 3:50 am Post subject: |
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It is strange and specially if those numbers are important then you need to be sure you can trust it. _________________ George
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