>>>>We've never bought or isntalled Office at ARS. We've never "HAD" to buy any proprietary software.
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>>>What do you use instead?
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>>One option I find very attractive is StarOffice. The basic version is free. This one uses its own proprietary format, but it can open (and write to) most versions of MS-Office, up to Office 2000.
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>I tried it a few years ago. I would probably use it but it tries to become your desktop. That turned me off, so I uninstalled and deleted it.
Like with many other annoying options in other programs, there is an option of turning this off.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
