Just an FYI about LibreOffice and MS Word and document formats...

MS Word dropped support for WordPerfect documents about 10 years ago.  LibreOffice opens them just fine.

More amazingly, MS Word doesn't support its own, *really* old MS Word .doc files from the early '90s, but LibreOffice does.


On Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 14:43, John Lolis eloquently inscribed:

> Thanks much, Charles, for the tip about DaVinci Resolve.
> 
> With respect to Office suites, there was once a patron who tried to open
> a Word document attachment from a message.  Word refused to open it,
> saying it was corrupt.  On a hunch, I suggested trying to open it in
> OpenOffice, and it worked.  They were able to save it and then could
> open it in Word. Since then, I've made sure to keep OpenOffice available
> even though we also provide MS Office.
> 
> When it comes to text editors, my favorite of all time was IBM's Enhanced
> Editor for OS/2.  It had some fantastic features, my favorite one being a
> command prompt mode.
> 
> John Lolis
> Coordinator of Computer Systems
> 
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> White Plains, NY  10601
> 
> tel: 1.914.422.1497
> fax: 1.914.422.1452
> 
> https://whiteplainslibrary.org/
> 
> *When you think about it, *all* security is ultimately security by
> ignorance.*
> 
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 15:31, charles meyer <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> Thank you so much for so generously sharing your list of software.
>> 
>> I've used many with great satisfaction - e.g. Audacity (most intuitive
>> software I've ever used, Mozilla FF and TB), etc.
>> 
>> I would add Edit Lite 8 as a text editor.
>> 
>> I had a huge TB Inbox file to open and search and Notepad++ didn't work
>> but EP did and as freeware that was so appreciated.
>> 
>> I edited my 1st vidoes for the library with OpenShot. Good people there
>> and not a bar video editing application although if you need more I'd
>> suggest DaVinci Resolve Free.
>> 
>> DR is probably more than what most of our public library patrons could
>> endure. :)
>> 
>> Hi Erich,
>> 
>> Thanks for sharing your thoughts about open source nto the threat others
>> think it is.
>> 
>> MS said that for years re: FF, Opera and before that Netscape.
>> 
>> I visited a friend's time share and in their corporate center they
>> offered free use of PCs with FF and Libre Office - No MS software except
>> the OS.
>> 
>> I've played around a little with Linux Mint and it's so intuitive with lots
>> of built-in applications (including video editing; basic though enough for
>> many) and the "experts" all advised against using that OS as dangerous,
>> too.
>> 
>> Charles.
>> 
>> From:    "Hammer, Erich F" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Software on Public Computers
>>