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Re: What Office to get?

From	Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: What Office to get?
Date	2025-01-28 13:27 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
> On 16/01/2025 2:38 am, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-01-15 14:30, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> a friend asks me what M$ Office to get.
>>> 
>>> She doesn't like the one that has to renew the license (pay) every 
>>> year, she rather wants a permanent one, and cheap if possible.
>>> 
>>> What options would you recommend? Country is Spain, so offers on shops 
>>> are not feasible, I'm afraid.
>>> 
>>> Of course I suggested LO, but she has to share files with coworkers 
>>> and will not do. She es not a geek. But what I use is LO, so I am not 
>>> familiar with M$ Office versions.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>> 
>> She is going to try Libre Office, she just told me. Another friend 
>> recommended it, and she doesn't need to share files, she says.
>> 
>> Good :-)
>> 
>> Thanks for the answers so far :-)
>> 
> I didn't have MSOffice installed on my former Laptop .... nor do I have 
> a Printer at home, so I write my document in LibreOffice, copy the 
> Document to a USB drive and take it down to the local Library and use 
> their MSO and Printer to print my Document.
> 
> No Problem.

On this. I had very weird experience last week with an online form from an
large internationally recognised organisation that refused to accept a docx
created in LO as an upload. Once opened and saved through Word it worked
just fine. 

I can't even think what check the online form would be doing to refuse a
file like that.

Thread

What Office to get? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-15 14:30 +0100
  Re: What Office to get? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-15 09:27 -0500
  Re: What Office to get? sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-15 08:29 -0600
    Re: What Office to get? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-01-15 13:45 -0600
      Re: What Office to get? malone <malone@nospam.net.nz> - 2025-01-16 09:28 +1300
        Re: What Office to get? sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-15 15:54 -0600
        Re: What Office to get? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-01-15 16:36 -0600
  Re: What Office to get? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-15 16:38 +0100
    Re: What Office to get? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:44 -0700
      Re: What Office to get? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-16 15:49 +0100
    Re: What Office to get? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-28 21:12 +1100
      Re: What Office to get? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-28 13:27 +0000
        Re: What Office to get? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-28 14:51 +0000
  Re: What Office to get? "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-01-15 17:18 +0100
  Re: What Office to get? Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-01-15 12:08 -0600
  Re: What Office to get? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-15 16:07 -0500
    Re: What Office to get? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 22:35 -0700
      Re: What Office to get? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-16 09:05 -0500
        Re: What Office to get? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 13:40 -0700
          Re: What Office to get? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-16 17:12 -0500
            Re: What Office to get? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-16 23:26 +0100
              Re: What Office to get? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 21:38 -0700
  Re: What Office to get? Drummond <noreply@juhygtfr.com> - 2025-01-16 02:00 +0000
  Re: What Office to get? Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2025-01-28 21:03 +0000

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