Posted April 24, 201411 yr comment_1346762 A few months ago I bought a new Macbook Pro. Did not realize when I bought it id did not have a CD-Rom drive. Everything is now downloaded off the App store. My wife has a resume that is Word based. Does anyone know if there is an App that she can import and edit it?
April 24, 201411 yr comment_1346768 Open Office is free. There are a couple of other suites out there as well that I'll look up when I'm not on my phone...
April 25, 201411 yr comment_1346774 and if you need office, i get it for $15-20 from work, and its downloadable mac version
April 25, 201411 yr comment_1346775 Here's the other one I was trying to remember: Neo Office I prefer it to Open Office on OS X. Scratch that, I just noticed they've started charging. Screw that. Open Office it is...
April 25, 201411 yr comment_1346799 and if you need office, i get it for $15-20 from work, and its downloadable mac version Which version of office?
April 25, 201411 yr comment_1346800 Why not libre office? Same thing. Libre was just a fork of OO when The Evil Lord Ellison bought Sun and thus the rights to OO (technically it was still GPL but just the stench of Ellison near the project was enough to drive folks away). TL/DR I use them interchangeably..
April 25, 201411 yr comment_1346807 Compatibility between Word and OpenOffice/LibreOffice/etc. is still dicey at best. Yes, either will open your document from the other program, but formatting will get all garked up in the most annoying and tedious ways.
April 25, 201411 yr comment_1346855 Same thing. Libre was just a fork of OO when The Evil Lord Ellison bought Sun and thus the rights to OO (technically it was still GPL but just the stench of Ellison near the project was enough to drive folks away). TL/DR I use them interchangeably.. Why I switched to Libre....
April 25, 201411 yr comment_1346861 Goggle docs Good one. It doesn't tend to gark up the formatting as badly either...
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