An afterthought ... -----Original Message----- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 08:49 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Cc: 'Elliot Warren' Subject: RE: Open Office vs Microsoft 365
<orcnote>Comments in-line below between these brackets</orcnote> [ ... ] I like this software suite a lot but I need to be able to use it in the business world. Thank you for your time. <orcnote> You are in good company. It will all depend on how demanding use in the business world happens to be. You know what the easy answer is. You saves your money and you takes your chances. If you can limit what you do to what can round-trip via the Microsoft OneDrive and Office on the Web applications, you should be on safe ground and also have a way to interact with folks who use Microsoft Office programs from their Macintosh, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. </orcnote> <orcnote> Afterthought: The preceding remark is about ensuring that what you produce will interchange well with users of Microsoft Office software. The difficult case is documents produced by users of Microsoft Office software that you may need to be able to view with good fidelity and perhaps are expected to be able to modify in some manner and return. There is a naïve assumption that everyone can handle those documents and there's not much to be done about that. If you use OpenOffice and have no Office 365 subscription, there are still options on Windows. First, there are free viewers for Word and for PowerPoint documents. Also, you still have OneDrive's free Office Web Applications that you might be able to use whenever viewing or editing in OpenOffice is unsuccessful. This is a little more work in moving documents to OneDrive, using your browser for viewing and even editing, etc. If you are unemployed or (semi-)retired, the trading of labor versus Expense may work for you. It also depends on how expert you are or intend to be With these personal-productivity software packages. </orcnote> Elliot C Warren --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org