I'll second OpenOffice. I changed a bit over two years ago when I
finally began to think that my 1997 version of Microsoft Office was
getting a bit long in the tooth. I never had the full blown version
since I had just picked up Word, Excel and Access piecemeal. Now with
OpenOffice I've got the whole kit and caboodle which includes text
files, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, drawing tools and
mathematical formulae. I can also create PDF files which I couldn't do
with Word. I can also create or convert to Word format files if
desired... but I have no desire. :-)
I don't make extensive use of any of this stuff anymore so my experience
may not be typical but so far I've only encountered one minor
incompatibility which was in converting a spreadsheet. I don't even
recall what the problem was except that the problem and solution were
rather trivial.
Chuck Norcutt
Scott Gomez wrote:
> OpenOffice.org
>
> Looks much like Microsoft Office 2003. Reads and writes files from most
> versions of Microsoft Office. Operates across Windows, OS/X and Linux.
>
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> Scott
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Charles Geilfuss <
> charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Last week Hospital IT upgraded my office PC to MS Office 2007. ARRRRGG!
>> It's bad enough I have to relearn how to do everything but I also have to
>> contend with new bugs. For the first time since the upgrade I printed a few
>> envelopes today. The little dialog box with the two address windows looked
>> OK but when I fed the envelope through the printer both addresses came out
>> as garbage: &@#^%$ lines like that. WTF!! I restarted Word and tried again
>> with same results. Now what? I did a G**gle search on " Word 2007 envelope
>> garbage" and got a slew of hits. Seems all Office 2007 applications use a
>> new default font ...(sorry Andrew) typeface called Calibri (which I don't
>> like very much). I don't know why but if you change the default typeface to
>> anything else (I chose Times New Roman) the problem goes away. I'll let the
>> more capable figure out why it works.
>>
>> Charlie
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