> On 30 Apr 2020, at 3:05 pm, Neil Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > I must admit that, like you, I stayed away from subscription software until > very recently – I just wanted a one-off purchase that I could use until it > either stopped working or a new version had a “must-have” feature – and I > think Apple introducing Time Machine was the last time I thought a new > feature was must-have ;o) > > However when I recently, finally, moved up from Snow Leopard I had to say > goodbye to Office 2004!
Like you, I resist subscription software as much as possible, but I did bite the bullet with Office 365 and, like you, appreciate the benefits. The one subscription lets me use it legally on all of my computers, and even in Windows running under Parallels desktop. I’d rather not use Microsoft Office at all, but I’m realistic enough to know that it’s a necessary evil. I use it mainly to open Office documents. While many other programs also open Office documents such as Pages, Numbers, etc, sometimes the only way you can see the document as it was intended is to open it in Office itself. For document creation I pretty much always use Pages and Numbers. I find Numbers to be an extremely capable and highly underrated spreadsheet application. It certainly doesn’t do everything that Excel does (and the Mac version of Excel doesn’t do everything the Windows version does!) but Numbers does some very useful things that leave Excel in the dust when it comes to efficiency and presentation. I do wish Apple would pay more attention to it. Kind regards, Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
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