I cannot get LibreOffice to download from their website - demand donation and I want to see the damn thing work.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Rochelle <rhub...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please report back to us your experiences on LibreOffice.. Is it compatible > with your old AOO files and MS docs?. I've heard somewhere AOO is no longer > being supported, and that's the reason why bugs and fixes are not being > developed. > > As long as there are no compatibility issues, I'm ready for the leap too. > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:26 PM Jim McLaughlin <jjim.mclaugh...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > As others have noted, with regard to OpenOffice 4.x.x the answer is > > basically "Yes". > > > > I am going to espouse heresy here. > > > > I have used OO about 4 years. When I started, it was a reasonable > > alternative to the Micro$loth product. > > > > Over that time period, IMHO OO has gone downhill. Too many bugs not > fixed; > > too many problems ignored. (The user profile / dictionaries /. spell > check > > being only the most common one.) Its a result of too few volunteer > > developers. I don't have those development skills, so I can't help with > > those issues. I am a tool user, not a tool builder. I think I have > > found a tool which suits my needs better, that being LibreOffice. I am > > in the process of running both suites in parallel and think that I will > be > > eliminating OO sometime after the New Year. > > > > Libre Office is available at: > > > > www.libreoffice.org > > > > LibreOffice is the same price as OpenOffice, i.e. free. > > > > I have no economic or proprietary interest in either OpenOffice or > > LibreOffice. Just a fellow looking for a better tool. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 11:52 AM, James Flikkema <porta...@twc.com> > wrote: > > > > > Dear Sir or Madam: > > > > > > > > > > > > I am getting tired of MS Office, and OO appears to be a possible > > > alternative, However. I have years of documents (Word, Excel, Outlook, > > > PowerPoint) that I need. > > > > > > > > > > > > This should be a simple question, Will OO read Office 2010 files? If > > not, > > > there is no way I can dump thousands of documents to .txt files so they > > can > > > be read. > > > > > > > > > > > > I hope the answer is yes, . > > > > > > > > > > > > James Flikkema > > > > > > porta...@twc.com > > > > > > > > > -- > Sent from Rochelle Gmail Mobile >
