But Lorne, you've already whored yourself out to office 2007 why not whore yourself out annually?
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The otter thread is
You cannot contain the otterly awesomeness to one thread. WE SHALL NOT BE REPRESSED!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Like I said, I used it for close to a year-- so it isn't learning curve, or just getting used to the UI. It's no good. I installed Office 2007, and haven't looked back.
Been there, done that, same experience. Although I did it back when it was still called "open office." And (I am ashamed to say), I used it for close to 2.5 years. I was in my college Linux-is-better, I-am-soooo-alternative phase
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Although I did it back when it was still called "open office."
Has it really changed all that much since then?
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I wouldn't know, I haven't tried it since the split and re-name. But, based on the report, I am going to hazard a guess and say, no.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
It's poop. It has half the features of Office 2007. Formatting doesn't work right. It randomly crashes. It's clunky. There's a whole host of neat little things that you just expect to work-- that don't. I started to dread opening it, because I'd have to use it.
Does it still require Java? That was the coup de grace of the whole OpenOffice experience.
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AFAIK Java was only required for when you had Java extensions or when you wanted to use its Access alternative. You can apparently stop the JVM from being started.
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I remember people told me that. Then LITERALLY THE FIRST THING IT SHOWED ME AFTER BEING RUN FOR THE FIRST TIME was a dialog box saying Java was required.
Conclusion: people lie about OpenOffice to make it sound better.
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open office
still sucks but LibreOffice is fine (not great just fine) for occasional word processor or presentations. If your job requires constant document writing, or data entry then that is a different story.
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@Vaire said:
open office
still sucks but LibreOffice is fine (not great just fine) for occasional word processor or presentations. If your job requires constant document writing, or data entry then that is a different story.
I've been using Google Docs because it's free and it's effectively an instant offsite backup from the moment I type a word.
Also because it's much easier to send someone a link to a website than to send them a megabyte of compressed XML that somehow resembles a document.
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We don't care about the collapse of society, such as a zombie apocalypse, but we do care about the collapse of our building, such as a local outbreak that was quarantined.
Can I come sit in on one of your disaster planning meetings at your company? I will bring lunch. This sounds interesting.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I installed Office 2007, and haven't looked back.
Office 2007 is shit in comparison to 2010. 2007 has the worst implementation of that stupid ribbon. They removed some of the idiocy in the ribbon in 2010. 2013 is just 2010 Metro(sexual) edition.
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I've been using Google Docs because it's free and it's effectively an instant offsite backup from the moment I type a word.
Also because it's much easier to send someone a link to a website than to send them a megabyte of compressed XML that somehow resembles a document.
We use Google Docs a lot for basic word processing documents and spreadsheets. It is amazing for collaboration. Especially so when working on spec documents. It is much more efficient for me to type something, move on to the next line, see someone start deleting the previous line and then get an IM that says, "No, there is no way we can get that done on a first iteration."
Efficiency.
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I use lolLibre office for my CV and Google docs for everything else.
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I've been using Google Docs because it's free and it's effectively an instant offsite backup from the moment I type a word.
Then you try to use it offline and it deletes all your shit.
Yes I'm sure it's "much better now", but fuck Google, they lost my fucking trust FOREVER with that piece of shit bug.
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deletes all your shit
It didn't have revision history back when you tried it in 1902?
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Nope.
They fucked up. Ok? There's one feature I ask for: don't delete all my shit due to bugs. That is not a feature Google has. So I'm never going to try their product again, nor will I ever promote it to someone.
They had a chance, they blew it.
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They fucked up. Ok?
No.
If the failure of any digital system causes permanent loss of data you care about, you fucked up.
Filed under: back that shit up, yo
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But it's on Google Docs, that was the whole pitch. You don't have to, Google takes care of it for you.
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You don't have to
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Yeah, no.
Filed under: digital information doesn't really exist until you can put your own hands on at least two copies
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Goddamned, learn to read.
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Office 2007 is shit in comparison to 2010. 2007 has the worst implementation of that stupid ribbon. They removed some of the idiocy in the ribbon in 2010. 2013 is just 2010 Metro(sexual) edition.
lololol I just realized I actually have office 2003 installed. It's the install media I had. And it works. 2007, fuck that noisy-ass ribbon. 2010, I think I use that at work. It's tolerable. I originally had 2013 on my work machine, but nuked it for various raisins I documented in threads on the old forums.
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still sucks but LibreOffice is fine (not great just fine) for occasional word processor or presentations. If your job requires constant document writing, or data entry then that is a different story.
If I ever get to the point where my job requires constant document writing, then I have either fallen REALLY far, or I didn't run fast enough when they came for me to make me a manager. Either way, DO NOT WANT! 0_0