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Old September 18th 20, 04:48 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Word look alike?

Ken Blake wrote:

On 9/17/2020 12:10 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
"Carlos E.R." wrote:

The worst of this is that my friend "needs Word" for working at home
because of the pandemic, thus her employer should be providing any
software needed at their expense, but apparently they will not :-/


You sure MS Word is a mandate dictated by her employer? Maybe she just
thinks it is a mandate from her employer? More likely they just want
her to work on Word documents.


Or create documents in .doc or .docx format. As long as she did, her
employer would be highly unlikely to know what program she was using.


True *if* the documents had no feature that is in MS Word but missing in
the alternative, especially the freeware ones. I gave an example where
charts and perhaps pivot tables were missing in FreeOffice, but those
might certainly be objects used in a company document. Any use of VBA
in the documents make alternatives a no-go. Looks like Carlos can make
suggestions, but it'll be his friend that needs to decide.
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