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Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list

Subject Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system
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From Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date 2015-10-03 09:26 -0400
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On 2015-10-03 08:49, Robert Peirce wrote:
> On 10/2/15 5:47 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
>> I can wait for MS Office "2016"
>> (sometime this fall) if need be.  I can also install it on my SO's MBA
>> in the meantime and test many of the apps...
>
> Have you looked at Libreoffice or one of the other free suites? Possibly
> it can't meet your needs but I have read it adheres to national
> standards to a greater extent than Office.  Of course, you can't always
> believe what you read!

LibreOffice is fine.  As is the Apple suite.

OTOH I have to exchange files with clients, suppliers and others (not to 
mention in-office) and I've found over the years that attempting to use 
LibreOffice or Apple's office suite (Pages, Numbers) leads to formatting 
issues, loss of time screwing with "exporting" from the rebel formats to 
MS Office formats (esp. with the inevitable last minute changes and 
re-issues) that it is not worth my time to use them.

They're all fine apps.  They just don't work in the real business world 
where the de-facto standard is MS Office.  Pity.

I tested Excel and Word (Office for Mac 2008) on 10.11 (SO's MBA) and 
both seem to work fine.

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El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-01 13:26 -0400
  Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-01 17:47 +0000
    Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-01 21:35 -0400
    Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-02 16:38 -0400
      Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 20:50 +0000
        Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 20:57 +0000
          Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-02 17:58 -0400
            Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 22:06 +0000
        Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-02 17:47 -0400
          Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-02 21:57 +0000
          Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2015-10-03 08:49 -0400
            Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-03 09:26 -0400
            Re: El Capitan - known apps (no) problems list Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-03 09:36 -0400

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