 |
 |
|---|
Posted on 02/22/2019 5:26:30 AM PST by dayglored
The new app focuses less on Office 365, more on free stuff.
[TEXT ONLY ... Links at the CNet page.]
Microsoft's new Office app is available now for all Windows 10 users, Microsoft announced in a blog post Wednesday. The app, which was announced in December, replaces the current My Office app.
The new app is designed to be more useful to Office users by letting them launch documents, access Office desktop apps and more. While the soon-to-be-replaced My Office app has most of these features, the new one focuses on free elements.
With the new app, you can find your way around with tutorials, tips, tricks and more -- but no Clippy. Microsoft Office joined the Mac App Store earlier this year.
The new Office app is free and comes preinstalled on Windows 10, so you don't need to buy Office 365 to use it.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
|
|
|---|
Dirty bloggers.
My window 7 won’t let me on internet. All this is a Greek to me.
So, I have office 365 and windows 10. Do I need to do anything?
Open Office
Ha ha! I remember those days when Windows and Office came on 3.5” diskettes. Loading them onto one machine at a time was fun (ha!). When disk one finished on one machine you grabbed it and ran to load onto the next one. Musical chairs! Those were the days....
Open Office works just fine for me.
I was over at my mother’s last night, editing an existing RTF for her, and I thought it was the separately yearly licensed app, and closed it.
I was expecting Wordpad.
I mostly use LibreOffice, my self.
Though for envelopes, it’s Word97 on an old XP machine.
Two More:
Libre Office
Which was forked from Open Office some years ago.
I recently uncovered a box of IDE HDD’s. I didn’t know what was on them and didn’t want to toss them as-is. So I resurrected a 30-year old PC so that I could read the drives and recover any data.
It ended up being an entire day job, remembering jumper settings and BIOS options. In the end it turned out that Windows 98 couldn’t “see” several of the drives. So I had to update. The machine wouldn’t support anything newer than Win-XP. Fortunately I could load it from CD and didn’t have to do so from diskette.
Post Script: I did find some old photos that my father had scanned so it was all worth it!
Why go through all this when Open Office and Libre Office are available for free?
I’m an old MS Office freak, been using it for years. Got really pissed at the “ribbon” interface. Went back to Office 2003, the last release before the ribbon.
Last fall I tried Libre Office and like it real well. There are some inconsistencies with Office but easy to get around.
Haven’t tried Open Office but since Libre Office is an offshoot of Open Office I imagine the dissimilarities are few.
I can’t go to CNet anymore. I am tired of spending half a day removing all the crud, crap and bloatware that comes with every visit.
I don't think so, as the new app will come in with the Win10 update.
I use LibreOffice on my Linux boxes, and am quite happy overall, despite the relatively minor incompatibilities with true MS-Office.
Yeah, I normally try to copy out the source of the article pages so that the embedded links come with it, but wasn't able to do that with the CNet page.
FWIW, the text-only stuff I posted was complete, other than the links.
[[Ha ha! I remember those days when Windows and Office came on 3.5” diskettes.]]
Lol i never had 3.1 but my neighbor did- he loved loading it lol-
run a virtual machine- don’t save anything when you shut down- no worries-
P
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.