These days, with regular blog posts and in the course of a typical work week, I find myself doing a fair amount of writing. But what struck me recently is how rarely I use Microsoft Word to assist with that writing. When writing something that requires thought I normally start in a simple text editor. I find the lack of options helps me focus — and when it comes time to move it to an email, blog post, or even a Word file, it is easy to copy and paste the text. MS Word’s tendency to drag along boat-loads of non-standard formatting is such a pain I actively avoid using it for any writing destined for web delivery. Start collaborating with a tool like Google Docs and Word becomes superfluous.
In our department alone we’d save $5,000 annually in licensing by ditching office — tempting in these tight financial times. At home Ethan and Leo both use OpenOffice for all their school work with no difficulties. – they have word processing, presentation and spreadsheet capabilities. For my part I currently use Microsoft Access, Visio and Excel for database work quite a bit. But a move to MySQL and other open source tools (OpenOffice’s Base) could cure this need. So I can definitely see a near-future office environment that does not include MS Office coming.
Who needs Microsoft Office? Freeware puts twists on old apps | Workers’ Edge – CNET News
Most people become so accustomed to using Microsoft Office that they never consider its alternatives. But there are more than one way to process words and spreadsheets: Word and Excel aren’t the only games in town.
Removing extra tags in a Word Web document
Word has the ability to turn your document into a web page. However, it has the reputation for creating bloated pages that contain a lot of extraneous code. For this reason, many experts suggest using an alternate program for creating web pages. But, you can get around this.
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