Re: The problem with not owning the software

Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
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In alt.comp.os.windows-11 rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:07:39 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

 

Yeah, it sometimes pains me that it is brought up as often as it is as
some sort of must-have piece of software. It suggests that people don't
do much other than open up Word and Excel.

 

I'm the minority report. I have never used Office. I have no need for it
in my personal life and the company never installed it on the programming
machines. If we get RFPs or other documents in docx or xlsx we use
LibreOffice. For me, that's a read-only thing since my attempts to edit
anything were disasters.

 
What do you use to edit/create documents and spreadsheets with others?

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I'm surprised you don't do any documents. I have been using word
processors since I was in elementary with Apple 2's AppleWorks.

  Like rbowman, I used/used vi/vim for my documents. Have been using it,
ever since it became available (to me). First on Unix/UNIX and later -
mainly privately - also on DOS and Windows. I currently have some 3500
of such documents. And FTR, I'm using vim to compose this very article!
:-)

  In a past working life, I shortly used nroff when vi couldn't yet
format/reformat text (or I didn't know about it or didn't know how to
do it).

  On a temporary assignment, I had to use WordPerfect, because the
organization which hired me was more (only?) interested in how research/
investigation/etc. reports looked, than in their content/substance.
Luckily after a few months, I managed to escape.

  And of course I still get the occasional .doc[x] attachment from
someone who only *needs* a note-taking program, but only *has* (or knows
how to use) Word. Luckily my current Windows 11 seems to grok such
files, at least I didn't have to install LibreOffice since I got it,
over two years ago. Knock on wood.

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