poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Deavmi <=-
I've been playing with a couple of suites lately, since my office
licenses are getting out of date and I've been using my Linux laptop
more these days.
I used to use suites like OpenOffice or LibreOffice, but a few years ago, I had to work on a document, which none of the free suites or cloud services like Google Docs/G Suite could handle without corrupting the formatting. I ended up subscribing to Office 365, which worked perfectly
It's hard to beat office365, and "renting" the newest version of
office, getting 1TB of cloud storage and the online apps. You could use Office365 on any platform and use the Windows/Mac apps when applicable.
That's the route I ended up going down, and it's affordable, with frequent updates.
For the same price you could get G suite and use web apps all the time. I'm leaning that way.
At the cost of compatibility. For most people, the alternatives work perfectly, and it certainly doesn't hurt to check out the free options. I used them successfully for many years, but sometimes you need the real Microsoft product for maximum compatibility.
If you had multiple systems, multiple platforms and didn't want to use cloud storage I'd use OpenOffice and Resilio Sync. Resilio does secure file syncing cross-platform and doesn't use the cloud. You could back
up your docs to all of your systems and have multiple copies for safe keeping and have a free office app to work with - without any data in
the cloud.
That's an interesting idea, and an alternative twist is to use OpenOffice on Linux and Office 365 on Windows machines, along with Resilio. That way, you can use any machine for day to day editing, but have MS Office available for when maximum compatibility is needed.
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