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Hello Mortar!

28 Nov 24 18:48, you wrote to me:

 MM> That depends on the complexity of the Word doc.  For your
 MM> garden-variety document (text and images), I've had no problems.  If
 MM> the Word doc contains macros, imbedded spreadsheets/graphs, linked
 MM> data, etc., then you could run into issues, it various on the actual
 MM> content.

True.

 MM> Unless you can afford a few hundred bucks, LibreOffice (FREE!) is the
 MM> better choice.

You can get legal one-shot Office keys for cheap at gamers-outlet.net.  Office 
2024 Pro Plus is $33.36.  Office 2021 Pro Plus is $7.23.

I have never, ever paid full price for Office professionally or personally.

LO has choked on damn near every Word doc I have given it so I dumped it years 
ago.  OpenOffice, for me, was more compatible than LO.  Then I discovered 
OPENOFFICE.  But 9 times out of 10, I run Word docs through a .docx to 
markdown converter to read if it's for my use only.

-- Sean

... "Thanks a thousand." - Nelson Rockefeller
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