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Old December 4th 19, 10:50 PM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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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Old December 4th 19, 10:58 PM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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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Old December 4th 19, 11:09 PM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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.

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Old December 4th 19, 11:35 PM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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.

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Old December 4th 19, 11:36 PM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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.

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Old December 4th 19, 11:56 PM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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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Old December 5th 19, 12:11 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite -- 2019 Edition

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 22:56:58 +0000 (UTC), Nicodemus
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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.


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Old December 5th 19, 01:57 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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.
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Old December 5th 19, 05:36 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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! :-)

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Old December 5th 19, 08:15 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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.)

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Old December 5th 19, 08:24 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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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.

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Old December 5th 19, 11:12 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite - 2019 Edition

David wrote:

According to the article .....

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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.

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Old December 5th 19, 11:12 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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Default 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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Old December 5th 19, 11:38 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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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.

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Old December 5th 19, 11:48 AM posted to alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
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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.

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