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To: NYFriend

Open Office and Foxit reader for me.

In college I came so very close to having a..incident..involving a networked computer running Word Perfect 2.11’s “justify” feature...no jury in the land would have convicted me!!!!


25 posted on 12/10/2008 5:48:53 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: padre35
Foxit Reader, yea. Better performance with most PDFs and better security.

Open Office, nay. Performance is a joke.

29 posted on 12/10/2008 6:00:17 PM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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To: padre35
In college I came so very close to having a..incident..involving a networked computer running Word Perfect 2.11’s “justify” feature...no jury in the land would have convicted me!!!!

The original version of Word Perfect for Windows had an auto-save feature that was enabled by default. One day I was working on a project that I'd spent nearly 2 hours on, saving it on a regular basis. Then something happened, and WPfW managed to corrupt my document. Before I could stop it, the damn program managed to overwrite the last good save I had!

So I know what you mean.

Mark

38 posted on 12/10/2008 6:14:10 PM PST by MarkL
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To: padre35

OpenOffice is just brillant. If I ever end up with a computer without MS Office, it’s OpenOffice for me.

As far as your college experience, I started work with a network terminal. Luckily I only had it a few weeks before the guy one up from me in seniority burned out, and I got his desk and OS/2 equiped computer.


79 posted on 12/10/2008 7:26:15 PM PST by NYFriend
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