LibreOffice is really slick. I recommend it.
OpenOffice worked and was free, but it looked (haven't downloaded a copy for quite a while) like shit on a Mac. NeoOffice pays more attention to the interoperability aspect, but is kinda clunky and slow, and it's left my older machines behind. LibreOffice is better than both.
Something else to note is that Quicktime Player (which does nifty screen-capture videos) is not Quicktime Player 7. The latter does more than the former, particularly with Perian.
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Cool, OpenOffice was too ugly to use and NeoOffice was buggy for me. I will test it out.
I'm a windoze person with pirated office (thanks little brother!).
Works great!
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Also works for windoze Thudner.
He's one of the Others. First up against the wall when the upgrade comes and so on.
Also I haven't tried the Windows version so I can't say either way.
Makes me almost wish I used Office for something.
Hah! Fuck YOU interoperability!
(actually, I do use Word for my specifications; but since those are heavily based on specific macros, I don't think these alternatives would work anyway. But hey, thanks!)
I'm stuck at work with a variety of macros which have to match the work of others. This'd probably do fine with most of those, but it's not worth spending the time tweaking and proofing.
Word STILL looks like shit on a Windows machine.
Word y'say?
Libre Office?
Huh. Haven't touched 'em in a sunth o'mondays.
Google docs and a plain text editor pretty much constitutes all the readin', writin', spreadsheetin', slide showin', productivityin' suite I ever seem to need.
I use GIMP and Inkscape as standalone draw & paint tools, but other than that I'm just a helluva lot happier in a browser...
Google Docs is a pretty good thing for me: it's a central place for certain things that require a lot of eyes and a lot of individual edits (although I like wikis more). And I very much believe in browser apps for certain environments; cuts down on a lot of training if people already have a general idea of what to do.
Google Docs still don't do some things I need to do with the standalones, and I still want my stuff to be mine.
Yeah, I get that a stand-alone word processor does stuff that GDocs doesn't do, and if you need that stuff well then you need it. I don't.
I have no less than four Google accounts. One for mikey, one for the flesh n blood dood, one that's all formal-like for resumes and official crap, and one for the dood that LOOKS like the flesh n blood dood but belongs to his employer.
So I often have one open in Chrome, one in Chrome Canary, one in Firefox and one in epiphany. So to be accurate, I like to live in browserS...
W/V quotes hitler at a meeting with Mussolini and a representative from Japan: imsoaxis
I have no less than four Google accounts.
That's my number! And Valentine's Day is over, darn it.
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