OpenOffice works fine for me. WIndows, Mac and Linux versions. Reads and
rights (no that's not a typo, exactly) Microsoft Office files when needed
for compatibility, exports PDFs if all someone has to do is read your work.
$0. Regularly updated and enhanced.
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan, that's all very nice if you live in an isolated world where everyone
> else is using the same software. For most people, however, the need to share
> a document between a Windows and Apple environment will inevitably arise,
> and then using iWork and similar toys will just not do since most people in
> the big bad world use MS Office. I have drunk all the Apple Kool-Aid, but
> the office package on my Mac is MS Office for Mac (2008) and it works pretty
> well. It also helps that I got the complete package for €25 through my
> employer's Home Use Program.
>
> cheers,
> Nathan
>
> On 9 Dec, 2010, at 7:14 , Jan Steinman wrote:
>
> >> On 6 Dec 2010, at 05:29, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> >>
> >>> I went to install MS Office 2008 (the newest incarnation).
> >
> >> From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> It's not (the newest).
> >
> > If you're still using Micro$oft crap, you haven't consumed your allotment
> of Apple Kool-Aid yet.
> >
> > Check out iWork. It does 99% of what I'd use MicroCrap for, at 1/6th the
> price and about 4x the performance. Keynote is a stunning replacement for
> Micosloth SourPoint. Pages does incredible things, incredibly easy, but
> stumbles on translating some .DOC files from Microsloth Turd. Numbers is
> simply amazing in improved usability over Microsloth Ex-Hell and reads
> Ex-Hell files pretty well... but it doesn't do pivot tables. (If you don't
> know what a "pivot table" is, you'll be fine with Numbers.)
> >
> > There should be a new version of iWork out Any Day Now. Don't let that
> stop you from downloading the free 30-day demo.
> >
> > Oh. You didn't pay for your copy of Word that won't install? Sympathy--.
> :-)
> >
> > ----------------
> > All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves one thing or
> another. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
> > :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
> >
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