Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us13.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=DUQJW7YSnm<2Z65?TJZPK3HWonT5<]0T=djI?Uho:Xe;lL51CP6LDL7b1lIBJ2Dm_:F?^H3i; X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Andrzej Matuch Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft Office 2021 Professional Plus for $15 USD Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <663cde14$0$3711200$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663ea904$0$6440$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 11 May 2024 12:06:12 GMT Lines: 44 Message-ID: <663f5f34$0$2422117$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1715429172 reader.netnews.com 2422117 127.0.0.1:59881 Bytes: 3177 On Sat, 11 May 2024 07:30:40 +0000, RonB wrote: > On 2024-05-10, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >> On Fri, 10 May 2024 17:01:37 +0000, RonB wrote: >> >>> On 2024-05-09, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>>> Here you go, guys. It was advertised on Windows Central today. >>>> >>>>>>> professional-plus? >>>> cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&cjevent=7e5d96d80e1011ef80971fbd0a82b839> >>> >>> I passed it on to my wife. I don't know what version of Microsoft >>> Office she's using now. (She might already be using 2021.) >> >> Had I not gotten the Office 2021 I have now at a significant rebate >> ($40 USD or so), I would probably be using the free Office 365 >> subscription my job affords me. LibreOffice does the job for me, but if >> I ever make a document for the kids (in DOCX since they don't know >> anything else), there are always formatting issues. The Teams version >> of Office they use always seems to have problems with anything made in >> LibreOffice. > > I'll have to take your word for it. I rarely use standard word > processors now. No real need. Most of my writing is done in an editor. > Reminds me of WordStar in DOS (where I learned word processing) — and > Jstar uses the same keystrokes. > > I can, however, convert to any format in TextMaker when I need to. In reality, absolutely nothing I do requires a real word processor anyway. I'm only using one because that's what's necessary to share files. In reality, unless I absolutely need something to check my grammar, even WordPad would do. Sometimes my documents are shown on a big screen, and I need to make the font bigger, so something that can enlarge the fonts would be necessary. That's about it. Otherwise, I use a word processor to make a modifiable document of my work schedule. It's a simple table in which I can enter and edit blocks to write where I am supposed to do and at what time. I imagine WordPad can make tables too. Honestly, it seems like WordPad is way more than enough for most people. It's too bad they're removing it from Windows.