[Novalug] your view on the need for Microsoft Word

James Ewing Cottrell III JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Wed May 30 10:19:28 EDT 2018


Does anything good ever happen after the words "tell her" are said?

As far as I am concerned, LO is as compatible as MO, with the caveat 
that yes, there may be a few incompatabilities, with the proviso that 
any such examples are "Illegal Documents" in the same way that any Web 
Sites that look different in different browsers are "Illegal Websites".

It's also getting harder to find such Illegal Documents.

JIM


On 05/27/18 17:40, Nino R. Pereira via Novalug wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> my dear spouse insists on purchasing a real authentic copy of Microsoft
> Office Suite including Word, PowerPoint and Excel, on her mac computer.
> She has asked me to give a very nice portable that runs Xubuntu 16.04
> away to someone abroad who is very intelligent but may not have a support
> system such as this mailing list. She insists that the computer must have
> real Microsoft, not some cheap clone like libreoffice that's on there 
> now.
>
> I try to tell her that libreoffice is perfectly compatible with .doc 
> and .docx
> and all the other Microsoft special files: I know this to be mostly 
> true but
> not completely in all details.
>
> Any suggestions for what I should tell her? (beyond go ....).
>
> Nino
>
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