[ale] [OT] Microsoft Office 13 license

[Jay Lozier]

On 02/20/2013 04:05 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org 
> <mailto:brian at stanaland.org>> wrote:
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>     I should have read the article first. It says the regular license
>     is tied to a single PC. Not the subscription plan. That can be
>     installed and removed as many times as needed.
>
>     Also, my family has been using Google Apps since it started. We
>     like it. It's great as a common repository we can all get to. But
>     to do complicated school papers you really need a desktop
>     application. OpenOffice worked for us for years until the kids got
>     in High School and the papers got more complicated and had to use
>     specific templates.
>
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> I found that nearly all M$ .doc templates worked fine in OOo as long 
> as the liberation font set was loaded. Without that specific font set, 
> all spacing and alignment was always crap.
>
> That said, I've seen M$ templates generated on a Winblows system that 
> were crap on a Mac with Word. I used those examples to indicate to the 
> school why requiring a specific template outside of a web form was a 
> bad idea. No, they didn't understand or change but they allowed a 
> similar looking paper from a different system. Whenever a .doc was the 
> required format, my kids would save as MS word 2003 .doc in OOo and 
> the teacher never knew any different.
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>
>     --Brian
>
I have saved documents using in LO in various M$O formats and no one who 
received them could tell I was not using M$O. I use ODF formats while 
creating/editing and then convert to M$O formats.

I have found I can make my own template from an M$O document of template 
(depending on the presence of macros) easily enough. This is 
particularly nice if someone expects a standard format for a particular 
document.
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-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier at gmail.com

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