Having acquired one and getting another lappie for church, I'm contemplating putting Openoffice or LibreOffice or something on, rather than paying thro the nose for a Micro$haft Office variant. Trouble is, as far as I can see, there ain't no equivalent in the OO or LO suites to MS Publisher, which in some instances is very useful... allows you to place graphics anywhere on the page, for example, without tussling with Word which can be very capricious.
Any users out there with any tips, please?
Openoffice & stuff
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Open Office has a program called Impress for producing presentations and the like. I've only tried it once, but having never used the type of software before I couldn't get to grips with it. I only wanted a couple of simple reports and ended up using Open Office Draw to do it, as I was already plenty familiar with that.
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Just to add, I have come across the exact same problem, there isn't a Publisher equivalent.jimtherev wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:55 pmHaving acquired one and getting another lappie for church, I'm contemplating putting Openoffice or LibreOffice or something on, rather than paying thro the nose for a Micro$haft Office variant. Trouble is, as far as I can see, there ain't no equivalent in the OO or LO suites to MS Publisher, which in some instances is very useful... allows you to place graphics anywhere on the page, for example, without tussling with Word which can be very capricious.
Any users out there with any tips, please?
I have a copy of Office 2000.
It has a shortcoming in that it cannot handle the newer file types such as DOCX for MS Word, so I have downloaded and installed Apache Open Office, but all I tend to do is use it to open a DOCX and save as a DOC and then use Office 2000.
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Until replacing Mrs Jim's computer she had the same problem, but we solved it by downloading a free converson from MS .docx -> .doc. Can't save in .docx format etc of course.
Same download suite does this for the rest of the older MS Office stuff.
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Had a look - but looks as tho' it's a bit specialised. The advantage of OO and its derivatives is that it's almost intuitive to those who've been struggling with the MS version for half a lifetime.Wodrick wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:37 pmJim, might be worth a look.
https://www.lucidpress.com/pages/tour/f ... lternative
(I started off with a package written by GST but that seems to have died sometime in the 90s)