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Old September 18th 20, 10:20 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Carlos E.R.[_3_]
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Default Word look alike?

On 18/09/2020 12.44, Chris wrote:
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.


Round tripping .doc(x) files through LO invariably changes the formatting
and if you've got anything complex then chances are that it gets screwed
up. At one time I tried to use LO/OO for a couple of years with colleagues
who used Word and in the end it just wasn't worth the effort.

For home where you're the only person working on the documents then LO is
perfect.


In this case, on her old laptop Word would not do the conversion to PDF,
and being confined I could not have a look. So she mailed me the .docx,
and I did the conversion to PDF using LO in Linux. Nobody noticed.

They are quite simple documents.

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Cheers, Carlos.
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