On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > The way they package Office doesn't help... Ignoring the > subscription-based "Office 365" I was at Best Buy a few weeks ago... The > only local-install version of Office (Home&Office I think) had Word, Excel, > and PowerPoint. > > How many /home/ users are creating presentations/slide-shows? Drop > PowerPoint and include Access (which is essentially a GUI builder front-end > for the Jet RDBM engine) and Publisher (seems a home user would do more > with invitations, cards, and maybe reports/brochures)!
Access? For a home user? That’s insane! Most home users actually won’t use Access even if they have it. It’s pretty complicated, especially for your average Joe. And Publisher could work out for a home user, except Word can do the same, equally well (at least for a home user). Why would they play with a more complicated program, when they have a good enough thing in Word? Also, home users DO use PowerPoint. One can make a photo album, for example. Or, if you have kids, they might have to create a presentation for school (as a form of an essay). PowerPoint is MUCH more useful for a home user than (a) a user-unfriendly advanced program; or (b) a more-or-less duplicate of what they have. On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > The one thing that isn't available with LibreOffice is OneNote, which you > don't seem to be able to get separately, and doesn't seem to have any > documentation (ie 3rd party books on it). But there is Evernote. OneNote is actually available for free: http://www.onenote.com/ (though Evernote is superior) -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list