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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'>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@01CFDBD2.6893DE50" 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:image001.jpg@01CFDBD1.0C980190" 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><br><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>