Have been using the Open Office Suite for quite a while on my Mac, although I formatted the docs with Microsoft appendages like .doc and .xls so anyone could open them. I did some updates on my Mac. Now Open Office modules freeze once I open them.
Heard there is another freeware called Libre Office. Or should I just buy a version of Microsoft Office for Mac? I am not a power user by any means.
I use Libre Offfice, which comes with LInux. i believe that they have a Mac version as well. I only use it for documents or less complex spreadsheets. Iâve had no issues for the past 10 years I have been using it.
I use Open Office, another free one, things coming from or going to someone using Word.. I also use WordPerfect for anything I will print.
Wow, just wow.
I first learned on WordPerfect. But that was like 1993.
Sorry, but I hate Word. It was originally an offshoot of the first IBM word processing software, which was awful, and always gave me the feeling that no one who programmed it ever had to use it. My first word processing program was Apple Writer on the Apple IIe. That was 1983.
When I have to go Windows 11, Iâll have to upgrade to a more recent version of WP because my version wonât run in 11.
Have you kept the software updated? The current version (for Windows) is 4.1.15.
He has a Mac
Have not seen any updates for Open Office for Mac.
LibreOffice for me. I am not a power user. On windows 11.
Does anyone else remember Wordstar which predates WordPerfect. Those were the days when I was a DOS Dinasaur.before we had a C/PM operating system which was our first home computer
Yikes no donât trust your mac to micro$oft!
I cannot remember the versions of free suites we have had over the years. Star office got acquired by Sun Microsystems and they released the free Open Office in 2002. Oracle bought Sun and eventually abandoned Open Office (as they did Acrobat reader for Linux). Apache software foundation maintained it until 2015. Remember it was released as open source, so we got a fork of it called Libre Office.
Load it up and expect your problems to disappear.
I was expecting this to be a generic âare word processors antiquatedâ to which I would answer, seemingly so. I have not dusted off my WordPerfect 6 for DOS i many years and rarely make much use of any word processor. âSpecially true now that I retired. Such a relief not to have to open up m$word every week to open, tweak, and save back weekly lie sheetâŚ
I will load Libre Office and see what happens. Funny that Open Office worked for years on this computer until it suddenly did not.
Henrius, I think youâll like Libre Office. After you install save the install file in your saved files.
and go into the application to set the default save format. I think he had to do the same thing in Open Office.
I remember IBMâs EasyWriter 1.0, circa 1981, my first WP app.
The first Word Processing programs I used was OfficeVision 400, which was a really basic WP program that ran on the IBM AS/400 midrange system. It was a green screen program and wasnât terribly robust.
IBM tried to duplicate PROFS which ran on their large systems on their mid-range System 32âs an AS/400s. It was ok for itâs day but by todayâs standards was slow and kinda klutzy.
PROFS dates way back into the 1970âs and was more of a private email, calendar and note writer.
I use Notepad for basic things!
having used it I can safely say that it was slow ans kind klutzy back then too. But back then most people had dumb terminals and not PCâs so we didnât have much to compare it to.