[OPLINTECH] MS Office

[Dan Will]

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.

Dan

 

From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org
[mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Dan Will
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 10:45 AM
To: 'Bob Neeper'; 'Mindy Holmes'; oplintech at lists.oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] MS Office

 

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



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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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