<div dir="ltr">I'd use LibreOffice only as a fallback. It's OK with documents that are straight text, but the more I formatted, the less it worked. I gave up on it. I use Pages on my Mac, which reads and writes Word files fairly well, and on my PC, I bought a copy of the stand-alone (non-cloud-based) MS Office. I don't know if they still offer that option.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"></div><div>Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"</div><div>________________________________________________</div><div>Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, </div><div>poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change</div><div>* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified</div><div>* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame</div><div>* Certified speaker: International Platform Association</div><div><a href="http://goingbeyondsustainability.com" target="_blank">http://goingbeyondsustainability.com</a> </div><div>mailto:<a href="mailto:shel@greenandprofitable.com" target="_blank">shel@greenandprofitable.com</a> 413-586-2388</div><div>Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. </div><div>Latest:Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World </div><div>(co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)</div><div><br></div><div>Watch my TEDx Talk,</div><div>"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"</div><div><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809</a> </div><div>(move your mouse to "event videos")</div><div>_________________________________________________</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 3:29 PM Marcia Yudkin via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div> <br>Thank you to everyone so far for your suggestions and comments.<br><br>I have downloaded LibreOffice but now I need to make sure that documents it creates <br>will appear as I intend when a client opens them in Word... which I obviously cannot test <br>myself since my Word is not working right now.<br><br>In particular, I need to make sure that when I turn on "track changes" that all the edits are <br>right there and visible when the other side first opens the doc or docx file that I edited. If you <br>need to execute any commands in order to see the changes, that is not cool.<br><br>Please email me offlist if you are willing to do this quick check for me offlist, which will take you <br>all of a minute.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Marcia Yudkin<br><a href="mailto:yudkinyudkin@yahoo.com" target="_blank">yudkinyudkin@yahoo.com</a><br><br> </div> <div style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42)"> <div> On Sunday, January 19, 2020, 4:15:48 AM HST, Robert Heller <<a href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com" target="_blank">heller@deepsoft.com</a>> wrote: </div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><div dir="ltr">At Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Marcia Yudkin <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:yudkinyudkin@yahoo.com" target="_blank">yudkinyudkin@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Hi techies!<br clear="none">> I bought a new Panasonic Windows 10 computer and Microsoft Word on it is giving me no end of headaches.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> The current headache is that Microsoft has inserted a screen asking me to consider my privacy options. There is nothing I have tried that will make this screen go away so I can open a Word document. I have tried changing the computer resolution, quitting via Task Manager, tabbing to every single option available, and nothing works to get me to a "finish" point to get rid of the interpolated screen.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Has anyone else encountered this, and how did you solve it? I have client work I need to get to, and unfortunately do not have access to my old computer at the moment.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My only thought would be to install LibreOffice and chuck MS Office. <br clear="none">LibreOffice is free and is likely to "Just Plain Work".<div id="gmail-m_3860571286390201003yqtfd61467"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Marcia Yudkin<br clear="none">> Goshen<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">http://www.hidden-tech.net</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="mailto:Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">Hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list.<br clear="none">> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members<br clear="none">> page on the Hidden Tech Web site.<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://www.hidden-tech.net/members" target="_blank">http://www.hidden-tech.net/members</a></div><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Cell: 413-658-7953<br clear="none">Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.deepsoft.com/" target="_blank">http://www.deepsoft.com/ </a> -- Linux Administration Services<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:heller@deepsoft.com" target="_blank">heller@deepsoft.com</a> -- Webhosting Services<div id="gmail-m_3860571286390201003yqtfd54388"><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"></div></div></div> </div> </div>_______________________________________________<br>
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