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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>BTW, I recently purchased Office 2013 Standard (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook) for $24.00 a copy, that is cheap enough for all of the patron computers. We used to get Pro but almost no one (except me) uses Access so why bother and spend the extra money.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Will<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 29, 2014 10:45 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Bob Neeper'; 'Mindy Holmes'; oplintech@lists.oplin.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OPLINTECH] MS Office<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mindy/ Bob,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> I have to put in my 2 cents worth and vote for <a href="http://wps.com/">WPS Office</a>. I have been using it for about a year (was called Kingsoft Office then). I have used it to open, edit and save docx, xlsx, and pptx files with no problems. I use it on Linux as well as Windows 7 & 8/8.1. There IS a version that you can buy that supposedly has more features but, I have no idea why you’d need more features than what the free version comes with. BTW, the free version does not have advertising built into it. That is usually a standard for freeware/shareware and you might say even Windows 8/8.1 subjects it’s users to advertising (try using an app such as weather and look for ads, they are there.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> I have used LibreOffice and OpenOffice (even StarOffice back in the day) and it (to my way of thinking) is getting a little bloated. The installer is 61.1 MB for WPS Office and 214 MB for LibreOffice. Both suites are very good but my preference is WPS Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Like I said earlier, my 2 cents worth. :)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dan Will<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=182 height=36 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01CFDBD4.6430E770" alt=logo><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Technology Supervisor<br>740.992.5813<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The difference between fiction and non-fiction? ......<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fiction has to make sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tom Clancy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Neeper<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 29, 2014 10:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> Mindy Holmes; oplintech@lists.oplin.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OPLINTECH] MS Office<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>We have a few patron PC's with MS office, the rest and staff's run LibreOffice<o:p></o:p></p><div><pre>R. W. (Bob) Neeper<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://sunbury.cool-cat.org" target="_blank">Community Library</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>44 Burrer Dr. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.243961,+-82.863007">Map</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sunbury, Oh 43074<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tel: (740)-965-3901<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://info.cool-cat.org"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=107 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CFDBD4.6430E770" alt=cool-cat.org></span></a><o:p></o:p></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal>On 9/29/2014 10:09 AM, Mindy Holmes wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Wow! With the soaring pricing of Microsoft licensing, I am curious what other libraries are doing on the MS Office front. I am particularly interested in the patron aspect. I don't think it will be terribly difficult to migrate staff over to something else (Google docs, MS 365, etc.), but am not sure how that would be on the patron side. I do go through TechSoup to get the steep discounts but there are limitations there too. <br><br>Thanks, <br>Mindy Holmes <br>Mason Public Library <br>_______________________________________________ <br>OPLINTECH mailing list <br><a href="mailto:OPLINTECH@lists.oplin.org">OPLINTECH@lists.oplin.org</a> <br><a href="http://lists.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/oplintech">http://lists.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/oplintech</a> <br><br><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>