<div dir="ltr">I'm going to politely disagree there... I am forced to use MS Office at work, of course, and I've used MSO since its earliest days. I actually got certified in it back in the mid 90's. But these days I am an avid fan of LibreOffice. Yes, it's not quite as robust of MS Office in many ways, but trust me, MSO has a dark side that makes me scream out loud some days. Especially the newer versions. There are a number of things that I _used_ to be able to do in Outlook that MS decided I didn't need to do anymore, so I switched to Thunderbird and never looked back (at least at home on my own computers). Excel and Word, while they're decent programs, just don't understand anything but their own proprietary formats. LO, on the other hand, plays well with just about anything.<div><br></div><div>I don't blame anyone for liking MS Office, but I encourage people to try out LibreOffice. Once you get used to the differences, you'll love it more and more each day.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 at 20:04 Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <<a href="mailto:aklists@mixdown.ca">aklists@mixdown.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> On Dec 2, 2016, at 6:16 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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