[OPLINTECH] Public Computers & Office

[Chauncey Montgomery via OPLINTECH]

We have LibreOffice on all public PCs.  However, we do have four PCs with MS Office for the patrons that insist on using it.  LibreOffice is sufficient for most and rarely do we have folk complain that we use LibreOffice instead of MS Office.  Staff use LibreOffice, which enables us to assist patrons with funky requests, such as, "how do you freeze cells," or "how do you repeat rows at the top," etc.  As mentioned by others, many users are drifting towards Google Docs, since schools and businesses are starting to use it.  This shift should make life much easier for us.
CM
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Chauncey G. Montgomery
Director/Fiscal Officer | Community Library
44 Burrer Drive | Sunbury, OH 43074
740-965-3901 | www.yourcl.org

On 06/01/2017 01:08 PM, Ed Liddle via OPLINTECH wrote:
> Another option would be libre office
> http://libreoffice.org
> A few years ago after Orcale purchsed Sun, it was uncertain what would happen to OpenOffice. So the open office folks decided to fork it and created libre office. They initially went through the openoffice code, cleaned it up and started using that as the code base to build libreoffice on.
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> I have both microsoft office and LIbre office on our public computers. I also started installing google chrome on the public computers since our school district uses google apps for their students.
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> -Ed Liddle
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> On 06/01/2017 11:47 AM, Larry Fischer via OPLINTECH wrote:
>> Who is still using Microsoft Office on public computers?
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>> Who has switched to only providing Open Office?
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>> Thanks!
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>> Larry Fischer
>> lfischer at gcpl.lib.oh.us
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