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lorrayne



Joined: 17 Dec 2004
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Location: Hampshire
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 4:28 pm    Post subject: Looking for a free Office package Reply with quote
    

Does anyone recommend Apache? Or have any other suggestions?

L

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45377
Location: yes
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

open office seems to do ok for me for most things but i dont do accounts on it,afaik the spreadsheet bit works.
tis quite similar to ms office and compatible with that and other systems

and foxit phantom /foxit reader if you need pdf capability for document reading/searching/editing or capture from a screen shot of a website to desk top or printer.tis easy to copy and paste into open office from foxit format.

Midlandsman



Joined: 22 May 2014
Posts: 116

PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

+1 for Open Office.

MM

gythagirl



Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Libre? Gets a good write-up in moneysavingexpert.com.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Why a free one?

joanne



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Libre is the go to free package

Hairyloon



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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Aren't Libre Office and Open office very nearly the same thing?
As I understand it, they were the same thing until fairly recently when they had an office schism.

joanne



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hairyloon wrote:
Aren't Libre Office and Open office very nearly the same thing?
As I understand it, they were the same thing until fairly recently when they had an office schism.


Yes pretty much but it's a bit like the Peoples Front of Judea and the Popular Front of Judea! It seems that Libre office is the guys who left the Open Office project in a huff over something but they were the ones who did most of the work

Falstaff



Joined: 27 May 2009
Posts: 1014

PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 15 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I had open office a few years ago - but it didn't interface terribly well with ms office and many of the things yo ucan do in ms office you couldn't do.

However, it was free - and as I said - a few years ago.

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45377
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 15 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

the more recent version interfaces well with ms stuff and has a few neat advantages over ms office,free being one of them .i know nowt about libre but if it is from the same authors i expect it is quite good.

they are both free so why not give both a go and decide which seems most intuitive /well helped and tutorialled(is that a word?) to you?

lorrayne



Joined: 17 Dec 2004
Posts: 239
Location: Hampshire
PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 15 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ok thank you muchly for your help - I will check out both.

L

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