Open Office

[EddieB]

Google has comparable products to Word and Excel, plus they are cloud-based.

I use google sheets but did just purchase Office 365 for $99 a year. Also cloud-based.

 

[Head Surfer]

Ok, so is “open office” or “libreoffice” cloud based? I am upgrading big time on speed on hardware and trying to minimize outgo.

Neither are cloud based. You have them on your computer just like MS Office. They are both free. I think libre office is more advanced than open office but that's just my opinion. Botth are compatible to MS office.

 

[Fargo1]

I have used LibreOffice for years. The only downside is the Spreadsheet program is not quite as powerful as Excell, but its never really been a big issue. Only power user will notice it.

I suggest you download it and give it a try.
https://www.libreoffice.org/

 

[QWERTY Pi]

Neither are cloud based. You have them on your computer just like MS Office. They are both free. I think libre office is more advanced than open office but that's just my opinion. Botth are compatible to MS office.

They are bundled with so much PUP and PUM. Throw down a few bucks for an old MS Office 2007 Key (no more support so they’re cheap cheap). And always remember, nothing is for free. Those word, excel, emv, xml, have so much of your personal data housed within.

Just for kicks, use a XML editor and open a XML file you’re sending to a client (which presumably eventually finds its way to FNMA).

Notepad would work, but try a free 1 Month Trial of XML Editor. Exif photo data, the time you signed the doc, browser history & cookies, file types (jpeg, png, jpg, or btmp), your type of signatureur .ico file, sky maps, flood data mapping tools, Adobe X or Adobe 9? ACI? Those handy .xml files tell quite a story. So does the metadata housed within a PDF file. Scrub them free of YOUR metadata. Ohh, nothing to hide, I see.

Introducing... “Waivers”! And soon to come, their ugly cousin “Hybrids”!

The less you give, the smaller their dataset. What they don’t expressly mandate you tell them, is no USPAP violation.

 

[QWERTY Pi]

Oh yeah, try Mozzilla’s Thunderbird for an Outlook Substitute.

 

[andrew81]

i use libreoffice, it has its glitches but its good enough

also you might want to try this for cloud
https://www.wps.com/office-free

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

...........Google Docs is cloud based. That means Google can scan your documents and lock you out of them if they deem them inappropriate. They have done this recently to a National Geographic writer who couldn't get to a story she was writing. Cloud based is just a newer version of the old dumb terminal/mainframe setup where the admins are in total control of what you can do with a computer.

Wow, forget that. I'm never ever ever gonna use that. google is inappropriate.

I tried open office a few years ago. It was fine, except some spreadsheets I have use macros, and those did not work in Open Office, so Excel it is, and not the cloud based thing.

 

[Eli]

I need to get my feet wet with some of these.

I like the free part. Lol

So MS office has gone like annual subscription with windows 10. So old version of MS office can still be obtained with windows xp or 7? MS works is similar too. What am I missing. Idk how to scrub data.

 

[RSW]

I need to get my feet wet with some of these.

I like the free part. Lol

So MS office has gone like annual subscription with windows 10. So old version of MS office can still be obtained with windows xp or 7? MS works is similar too. What am I missing. Idk how to scrub data.

I still use an older version of MS Office with Windows 10. No problem at all.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I still use an older version of MS Office with Windows 10. No problem at all.

I use both an older 2003 and 2010 on my computers. I am a couple of updates behind on both Adobe and Word Perfect and will continue to use both until they expire due to a computer upgrade.