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- Subject: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files
- From: nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:57:14 -0500
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Hi, Mike! I appreciate your point of view! The documents that I deal with come to me from outside sources, businesses whose software decisions I have no influence over .... --Nancy On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Mike Small <smallm at sdf.org> wrote: > Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello, all. > > > > I painfully conclude that I must install Word on my Ubuntu 16.04 > machine. I > > need to be able to handle Word files consistently. > > > > So I opened Synaptic Package Manager and searched for Microsoft Word. No > > luck. > > > > What do I do? How do I get it installed? > > > > I know, it pains me! But I don't see a way around it. All suggestions > > gratefully received! > > > > --Nancy > > > > Okay, you said "all suggestions," remember that. > > So here goes: The sooner you (and whatever network of people forcing > your hand here) can migrate away from Microsoft Word AND Libreoffice or > Openoffice and over to something like LaTeX the better off you will > be. You'll need to learn LaTeX of course (a wrapper for it named Lyx may > help smooth the learning curve, and there are various quite well written > books about it) but once you master it you should be much happier and > won't have to deal with these sorts of headaches, or with a number of > other headaches intrinsic to the PC wordprocessing WYSIWIG > approach. That was kind of a temporary abberration of the 20th century, > like Reaganomics, urban renewal or the cold war. WYSIWIG word processors > and their free software clones belong in a museum of popular culture > next to the hoola hoop, the Apple II and Barry Manilow albums. > > -- > Mike Small > smallm at sdf.org >
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- From: nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)
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- [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files
- From: nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)
- [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files
- From: smallm at sdf.org (Mike Small)
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