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   Bronwyn Harris (bronwyn@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 12:50:45 JST Bronwyn Harris

   Is Open Office a good alternative to Word?

   Do I download something to use it?

   Do I sound like my mother right now? Yes, yes I do.

   (I think I last used Open Office in 1995)

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 12:50:44 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     @Bronwyn I use LibreOffice (a fork of OpenOffice) and it's pretty solid. There's a download. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ (Get 64-bit for Windows if you use Windows)

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 12:53:34 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • Sam Levine

     @SRLevine @Bronwyn OpenOffice is still around, but I would (and did) recommend LibreOffice over OpenOffice. There's a complicated history of why they split, but the result is that OpenOffice doesn't have as wide of a userbase or as good of a feature set.

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     Sam Levine (srlevine@neuromatch.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 12:53:35 JST Sam Levine

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     @Bronwyn I think people push libreoffice now?

     ETA: it's the successor to open office

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     Bronwyn Harris (bronwyn@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 13:05:26 JST Bronwyn Harris

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     • Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)
     • Sam Levine

     @kingrat @SRLevine AHA

     I got great recs here before and then completely blanked on what it was for and couldn't find the damn post. THANK YOU.

     I knew open office didn't quite sound right anymore.