Office Suites

Yes people, I am back to blogging. I didn't fall off the face of the earth or anything. I just haven't been in the mood to blog recently.

About 20 minutes ago, I obtained a New Jersey saltwater fishing license for my upcoming trip to Cape May. I found a really crazy route to get there to avoid the Garden State Parkway.

Anyways, I have been playing around with several different office suites recently. I have used every version of Microsoft Office, starting with Office 97. I used Office 2007 Professional until today, when I felt bad, since it's really my uncle's copy, and Office 2007 requires activation. As a result, I installed Office 2000 Professional, the last version of Office to require activation. Then I realized that it would probably be unfeasible to use an 11 year old set of software on my 1 1/2 year old computer, running Windows 7. I mean, I run Office 2000 on my Windows 2000 machine, but that computer is from....2000.

I later decided to try out Corel WordPerfect Office X5. I generally liked it, but it had to go through this weird, slow conversion process every time I loaded a Word 2007 file. Because the world is transitioning to Word 2007/2010, that would be an issue. Therefore, WordPerfect Office was just...out.

I eventually settled on an office suite which I have used numerous times in Linux. I now use LibreOffice. It's a free office suite which supports many file formats, although it has some issues rendering Word 2007 files. Nevertheless, it's what you're getting for free, and it works perfectly fine.