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pwhodges:
Hey, look!  Microsoft would like you to pay them when you replace your computer (Office 2013 licences are not transferable, ever, even to your own new computer).

snalin:
http://www.openoffice.org/

I cannot see myself ever buying an office package for private use - it would cost me 1000NOK for the mid-range version (175USD), which is laughably expensive for any piece of consumer-grade software, and now I have to pay that for each of my computers? Not happening.

cesium133:
If only there were some free -- one might use the fancy French term libre -- office program out there that does 99.9% of what MS Office does.

I don't use office software that often, though I have run into a few incompatibilities between Open/Libre Office (it's the same software, but the development teams split when Oracle bought OpenOffice). The main one was the equation editor. I don't know if MS Office's equation editor has improved, but at the time I tried to use it, the OpenOffice one was way better. The problem was, if you edited an equation in OpenOffice and imported the file into MS Office, MS Office would mangle the equation. And another thing to keep in mind: when giving a presentation, always know what software is going to be on the computer you have to give the presentation from...

BeoPuppy:
God, I was worried for a minute that you were talking about MS Paint.

Which would cramp my style severly.

ankhtahr:

--- Quote from: cesium133 on 25 Feb 2013, 06:03 ---I don't use office software that often, though I have run into a few incompatibilities between Open/Libre Office (it's the same software, but the development teams split when Oracle bought OpenOffice). The main one was the equation editor. I don't know if MS Office's equation editor has improved, but at the time I tried to use it, the OpenOffice one was way better. The problem was, if you edited an equation in OpenOffice and imported the file into MS Office, MS Office would mangle the equation. And another thing to keep in mind: when giving a presentation, always know what software is going to be on the computer you have to give the presentation from...

--- End quote ---

Nowadays I rarely use an office suite anymore, but when I do it's Libre Office. For most of the stuff I have to do for school I use LaTex. It looks fantastic, and to me it's quite intuitive, once one understood the idea behind it. I also create my presentations with it, using the Beamer class. The resulting presentations look great, and are in the PDF format, which has never caused me problems.

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