[OPLINTECH] MS Office

[Dan Will]

Mindy/ Bob,

    I have to put in my 2 cents worth and vote for WPS Office
<http://wps.com/> . 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.)

   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.

Like I said earlier, my 2 cents worth.  :)

 

Dan Will



Technology Supervisor
740.992.5813

 

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From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org
[mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Bob Neeper
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 10:24 AM
To: Mindy Holmes; oplintech at lists.oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] MS Office

 

We have a few patron PC's with MS office, the rest and staff's run
LibreOffice

R. W. (Bob) Neeper
Community Library <http://sunbury.cool-cat.org> 
44 Burrer Dr.  Map <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.243961,+-82.863007> 
Sunbury, Oh 43074
Tel:  (740)-965-3901
 
 <http://info.cool-cat.org> 

On 9/29/2014 10:09 AM, Mindy Holmes wrote:

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. 

Thanks, 
Mindy Holmes 
Mason Public Library 
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