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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
According to the article .....
Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org TIA |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
On 12/4/19 4:50 PM, David wrote:
According to the article ..... Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office?Â* https://www.openoffice.org TIA LibreOffice |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
On 12/4/2019 2:50 PM, David wrote:
According to the article ..... Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org Several points: 1. I have only very little experience with LibreOffice or OpenOffice, but they are fairly similar. And as I understand it, LibreOffice is the best of the Microsoft Office compatible suites. 2. I don't know all of these, but as far as I know, none of them provide compatible alternative to all the Microsoft Office components. For example, I think an Outlook-compatible program is missing from all of them. 3. It's only one component of any office suite, but to most people, the word processor is the most important component. And as far as I'm concerned, Corel WordPerfect is far better than either Microsoft Word or any of the compatible word processors. 4. To many people (but not necessarily to everyone) how compatible they are with Microsoft Office is the most important part of how good they are. OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and WordPerfect are all fairly compatible with it (but no program is *completely* compatible). I don't know anything about the compatibility of any of the others. 5. "...for use with Windows 10" is essentially a meaningless part of your question. Most of them (*all* of them?) should work with any recent version of Windows. The important part of the question is how good are they, not "for use with Windows 10." 6. Personally, I don't try to stick with all the programs in a single suite. I dislike the whole concept of a suite, and try to use what I think are the best programs of each type without regard to what suite they are a part of . I use Corel WordPerfect as my word processor, Microsoft Excel as my spreadsheet, and Microsoft Outlook as my e-mail client. I rarely use any of the other components of Microsoft Office, nor any programs compatible with them. -- Ken |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite— 2019 Edition
On 2019-12-04, Ken Blake wrote:
4. To many people (but not necessarily to everyone) how compatible they are with Microsoft Office is the most important part of how good they are. OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and WordPerfect are all fairly compatible with it (but no program is *completely* compatible). I don't know anything about the compatibility of any of the others. Even different versions of Microsoft Office are not necessarily 100% compatible with each other. Leave it to Microsoft to turn word processing into something akin to quantum mechanics in complexity. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite— 2019 Edition
On 2019-12-04, Libor Striz wrote:
Libre Office Is AFAIK a more advanced/more intensively developed fork of OpenOffice. OpenOffice had been pretty much in limbo last time I checked. It's main advantage seems to be that it's fairly easy to set document format defaults system-wide for multiple users by editing a config file. This is a feature that Libreoffice lacks. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
David wrote in news:eSVFF.76022$BF1.75325
@fx26.iad: According to the article ..... Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org TIA First thing get off w10 and ditch that microsoft habit, the internet will survive without microsoft, the model of business that microsft is building will soon collapse along with those adobe people who have been making a good living, the road is long and you must endure for the best is yet to come. |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite -- 2019 Edition
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 22:56:58 +0000 (UTC), Nicodemus
wrote: David wrote in news:eSVFF.76022$BF1.75325 : According to the article ..... Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org TIA First thing get off w10 and ditch that microsoft habit, the internet will survive without microsoft, the model of business that microsft is building will soon collapse along with those adobe people who have been making a good living, the road is long and you must endure for the best is yet to come. There's a greater chance that pigs might fly. Sent from my iFurryUnderbelly. -- p-0.0-h the cat Internet Terrorist, Mass sock puppeteer, Agent provocateur, Gutter rat, Devil incarnate, Linux user#666, ******* hacker, Resident evil, Monkey Boy, Certifiable criminal, Spineless cowardly scum, textbook Psychopath, the SCOURGE, l33t p00h d3 tr0ll, p00h == lam3r, p00h == tr0ll, troll infâme, the OVERCAT [The BEARPAIR are dead, and we are its murderers], lowlife troll, shyster [pending approval by STATE_TERROR], cripple, sociopath, kook, smug prick, smartarse, arsehole, moron, idiot, imbecile, snittish scumbag, liar, total ******* retard, shill, pooh-seur, scouringerer, jumped up chav, punk ass dole whore troll, no nothing innumerate religious maniac, lycanthropic schizotypal lesbian, the most complete ignoid, joker, and furball. NewsGroups Numbrer One Terrorist Honorary SHYSTER and FRAUD awarded for services to Haberdashery. By Appointment to God Frank-Lin. Signature integrity check md5 Checksum: be0b2a8c486d83ce7db9a459b26c4896 I mark any message from »Q« the troll as stinky |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 21:50:01 +0000, David
wrote: Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Actually there is a much better list he https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar..._office_suites Which ones did you try? Give us a review IN YOUR OWN WORDS. I'd be interested in FREEWARE (you cross-posted to acf) suites that can work offline. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
On 12/4/19 3:35 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
On 2019-12-04, Ken Blake wrote: 4. To many people (but not necessarily to everyone) how compatible they are with Microsoft Office is the most important part of how good they are. OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and WordPerfect are all fairly compatible with it (but no program is *completely* compatible). I don't know anything about the compatibility of any of the others. Even different versions of Microsoft Office are not necessarily 100% compatible with each other. Leave it to Microsoft to turn word processing into something akin to quantum mechanics in complexity. That's no lie! :-) -- Ken MacOS 10.14.6 Firefox 70.0.1 Thunderbird 60.9 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite - 2019 Edition
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 21:50:01 +0000, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, David
wrote: According to the article ..... Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org Use Libre. It's a well-maintained, mature, .odx (OpenDocument) native office suite. If you need MS interoperability, stick to writing Office 2003 formats from Libre to ensure full compatibility (.doc, .xls, etc). Libre is superb at exporting to Office 2003 formats, and Microsoft products still read those formats with a high degree of accuracy. Avoid OOXML, the current MS file spec (.docx, etc). At its worst, I have had Libre Calc generate an .xlsx file that literally would not open in Excel and others that generated with bizarre side-effects. In contrast, I've never had an .xls file go bad. So I say go with Libre and use native .odx formats all you can. Use Office 2003 formats if you're sending stuff to someone with MS Office. I have found that MS Office has crap import filters for .odx files generated by any program that adheres to the OpenDocument standard, but imports the old Office 2003 formats well. YMMV. Good luck. (By the way, you used a non-ASCII long hyphen in the subject line and not all news readers handle it. I had to change the header to post to Eternal September.) -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite - 2019 Edition
On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 21:50:01 +0000, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, David
wrote: According to the article ..... Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance: Google Docs LibreOffice Office Online Apple iWork WPS Office Calligra Office DropBox Paper Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org TIA BTW, my dad swears by WPS (Kingsoft) Office. He's had very good experiences with it, even when using the current MS OOXML files. I don't know squat about it, though. YMMV. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite - 2019 Edition
David wrote:
According to the article ..... snipped Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org I am amazed that nobody so far has mentioned SoftMaker and their free (yes, real FREEWARE!) FreeOffice: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ I've used this (mostly the text and spreadsheet components) for many years and it has been (and still is) stellar. Like all non-MS office packages it doesn't support VBA macros but it does have its own fully-fledged macro language. In my experience FO is at least as good in opening all sorts of MS document formats as the various MS Office versions (it was already mentioned that MS Office is not always compatible with itself... which is true). Another big advantage (for me) is that FreeOffice is also available natively for Linux (ie not running under Wine). It also supports portable installs. Check its features, it's worth a look or two. -- Mick |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
On 05/12/2019 04:36, Ken Springer wrote:
On 12/4/19 3:35 PM, Roger Blake wrote: On 2019-12-04, Ken Blake wrote: 4. To many people (but not necessarily to everyone) how compatible they are with Microsoft Office is the most important partÂ* of how good they are. OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and WordPerfect are all fairly compatible with it (but no program is *completely* compatible). I don't know anything about the compatibility of any of the others. Even different versions of Microsoft Office are not necessarily 100% compatible with each other. Leave it to Microsoft to turn word processing into something akin to quantum mechanics in complexity. That's no lie!Â* :-) I believe you! :-D Can a clever guy like you, Ken, actually get to the link found in this thread? https://discussions.apple.com/thread...2#251567212022 To be clear, the place one gets to by following/clicking on the word "here" "See our good friend's last line *here*" If you CAN get there, what does it say there? What don't the 'moderators' want ordinary folk to see? TIA (If you CAN help!) |
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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite - 2019 Edition
Mick Finnlay wrote:
David wrote: According to the article ..... snipped Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/ Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org I am amazed that nobody so far has mentioned SoftMaker and their free (yes, real FREEWARE!) FreeOffice: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ I've used this (mostly the text and spreadsheet components) for many years and it has been (and still is) stellar. Like all non-MS office packages it doesn't support VBA macros but it does have its own fully-fledged macro language. Oops... that final remark about the macro language is bordering on nonsense:-) I mixed it up with SoftMaker's payware Office product as I've once used an older version of that under Windows for a while. The payware does in fact include a macro language. FreeOffice doesn't. Sorry for the noise. -- Mick |
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[OT]7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite — 2019 Edition
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:12:53 +0000, David
wrote: On 05/12/2019 04:36, Ken Springer wrote: On 12/4/19 3:35 PM, Roger Blake wrote: On 2019-12-04, Ken Blake wrote: 4. To many people (but not necessarily to everyone) how compatible they are with Microsoft Office is the most important part* of how good they are. OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and WordPerfect are all fairly compatible with it (but no program is *completely* compatible). I don't know anything about the compatibility of any of the others. Even different versions of Microsoft Office are not necessarily 100% compatible with each other. Leave it to Microsoft to turn word processing into something akin to quantum mechanics in complexity. That's no lie!* :-) I believe you! :-D Can a clever guy like you, Ken, actually get to the link found in this thread? https://discussions.apple.com/CUT_STALKING OT up. The thread never was about office suites/freeware or Windows 10. Go fsk yourself "m.e. troll" and anyone else that supports phishing and stalking. --------------- BD: I want people to "get to know me better. I have nothing to hide". I'm always here to help, this page was put up at BD's request, rather, he said "Do it *NOW*!": http://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php 63 confirmed #FAKE_NYMS, most used in cybercrimes! Google "David Brooks Devon" []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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