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Originally Posted by Quoth
LibreOffice has replaced Open Office.
Note for LibreOffice OR Open Office, the XLS, DOC, DOCX can be imported (and then you may need to fix Word Styles and Page formats), or you can Export using Save As, but don't edit in MS Formats, use the native ODT for writer etc.
MS Office 2003 and MS Office 2007 are maybe the best versions of it.
Unlike MS Office which is a collection of programs, some bought in and some added later, the Star Office/Open Office/LibreOffice was always really a single system with parts.
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yes, there is little difference between office 2007 and later versions. MS tinkered with the UI and added some web collaboration stuff, but also decided to have strong online activation and to try to force users into annual subscriptions to web365 instead.
my office 2007 professional came from ebay and has always just worked.
I've lost count of how many time I have used it in the last 12 years
one reason people cling to office is for the Outlook program but that's an awful insecure email product by modern standards. I moved on to mailbird pro [when you could still buy a cheap lifetime subscription] and never regretted it.
my wife still stubbornly clings to outlook 2007 and setting up new hardware for her is a total pain. Stuff like the file of autocomplete entries history, which she 100% needs, is extremely well hidden. Outlook passwords have to be dug out of windows registry or found on scraps of paper...
mailbird -> new PC is just one config folder to copy, everything is in there