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Acrobat.com Presentations: a future PowerPoint killer?

May 27, 2009

Today, Adobe releases a new collaborative Presentations application for its free online Acrobat.com cloud-based office suite. This new presentation software brings Acrobat.com one step closer to being a full-fledged online replacement for Microsoft Office. Since all of Acrobat.com is still in a beta phase, none of the products are fully developed — and some need [...]

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KOffice: a free office suite available soon on Windows

July 11, 2008

KOffice was originally developed for Linux, but one of the primary goals for KOffice 2.0 is for it to run on all three major operating systems: Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux.
Like OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office, KOffice is a full office suite. KOffice is free software and offers a full suite of applications, including for word [...]

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MCLE webcast: The Paperless Office

June 5, 2008

Description from MCLE:

The Paperless Office
Presented by Sam Glover; moderated by Peter Berge
Friday, June 6, 2008, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. CDT
1.0 law office management credit
Tuition: $75
The “paperless office” concept has created a trendy buzz in law office management circles. With new, reasonably priced hardware and software, it can also be a reality for any size office. [...]

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One year with Linux in a Windows world

June 4, 2008

Mike Kavis switched to Linux to prove that people can be productive at work without using Microsoft products. One year later, he has proved the point.
I have been Microsoft free* for a couple of months now, as well, using Ubuntu GNU/Linux as my primary operating system, with OpenOffice.org as my office suite. I have not [...]

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Open document format converter for MS Office

June 21, 2007

Since Microsoft insists on ignoring the international open document format, here are the open document conversion add-ins for Microsoft Office.

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A weekend with OpenOffice.org

March 19, 2007

As I mentioned, I had a short-notice brief writing project to do over the weekend. A new client called Wednesday and asked for a summary judgment motion that was due today. Since I have been dabbling in free and open-source software lately, I decided to use OpenOffice.org Writer to draft the brief.

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30 days with Linux

March 7, 2007

Brian Boyko over at [H] Consumer just posted “30 Days with Linux,” recounting his experience with going commercial-software free for a month. Read the article for yourself, but in the end, Brian decided to run Windows XP only as a backup for gaming and photo editing. Not bad. He did have some problems, and Matt [...]

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Two(-ish) weeks with Office 2007

February 15, 2007

I recently downloaded the trial version of Office 2007 for a long-term test, and I wanted to share my thoughts and reactions after living with it for about two weeks. I primarily use Outlook and Word, and Excel only occasionally. My comments will obviously focus on those programs.
I’ll start with my conclusion: Based on Outlook [...]

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Ditch the mouse: keyboard shortcuts in Office 2007

January 26, 2007

Mousing gives you carpal tunnel syndrome, anyway. Keyboard shortcuts are of the Path [Lifehacker]. Although the new Office 2007 toolbar looks like a shiny cartoon vomited on Outlook 2003, it seems Microsoft got keyboard shortcuts right. Hit Alt, and every keyboard shortcut shows up next to the function it triggers.
Forget stop > reach > point [...]

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