Gosh Peter ! You make me wonder about upgrading my MS Office in the future.
I used to use Pages and Numbers years ago, but moved to Office because of the incompatibilities. But from what you say it sounds like things have changed from that point of view. Thank you for your input. > On 30 Mar 2021, at 8:40 am, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On 29 Mar 2021, at 5:00 pm, Pete <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Neil, yes I agree with your comments below. My deal was 30% off the >> regular Microsoft price of $129 I think brought it down to $90 odd. Then >> with tax deductibility down to $55 there abouts. Happy with that. >> >> The discount continues as well for all years I remain subscribed. >> >> >> Regards >> >> Pete >> > > As much as I hate both subscription-based software, and have an aversion to > Microsoft Office software, I decided several years ago to take out an Office > 365 subscription. > > It is extremely difficult to work in a professional environment with > Microsoft Office. It is simply a necessary evil. Despite my misgivings, I do > recognise that Office 365 actually represents extremely good value. At $99 > p.a., and a with a renewl coming up in April, I will be happy to pay it. I > givers me the ability to instal it on every device I own, and to able to > operate trouble-free with all Office documents people send me. > > Having said all that, I rarely use any of the Office products for document > creation. I find them overblown, confusing, and laden with features that > often don’t work very well. I’m much happier working with Pages for most > document creation, and I’ll always use Numbers in preference to Excel if I > need a spreadsheet. It’s simply a more elegant product, and more than meets > my needs. If I need to collaborate with an Office user, Isimply export as > Word or Excel. The compatibility with modern versions of both platform is > very good. > > The truly frustrating thing about it is, even more than the terrible software > that it is, is the many things that I see people try to do with it when there > are much more appropriate, simple and cheap ways to achieve the same ends. > For example, so many people seem to like to use Excel as a database solution. > It’s a terrible idea, for so many reasons I haven’t got time to go into here. > Being a filemaker Developer I naturally go t Filemaker for a database > solution, but there are many easy, inexepensive solutions, all of which are > better than Excel. That's just one example. > > I could go on, but I won’t. Suffice to say I have never regretted my decision > to take an Office 365 subscription. > > > > 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. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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