[Informatics] Giving up Microsoft Office - cold turkey

[Mark]

Sometimes old, useless dogs need to be put down ... somewhat like bloated
software suites that can no longer fetch balls without tripping over their
ribbons and pretty but useless features.

Gasp!

On Friday, 30 September 2016, Andrew Pate <arp at mentonegrammar.net> wrote:

> Well Mark,
> Like Litsa I am a bulldog - it's 62 years for us!
>
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> Andrew Pate
> Mentone Grammar
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> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 6:38 PM +0800, "Mark" <mark at vceit.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark at vceit.com');>> wrote:
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> Fear not, Litsa. I'm only leaving MS Office.
>
> It's not as if I'm deserting St Kilda, who have not won a premiership for
> 50 years.
>
> Sob.
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> On Friday, 30 September 2016, Litsa Tzelepis <htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au');>> wrote:
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>> I'm nervous. It's not enough my beloved Footscray is in the GF, Mark is
>> giving up MS- Office :-)
>>
>> Take care xo
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>> ---
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>> On Friday, 30 September 2016, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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>>> Wish me luck, for I am bravely giving up my MS Office habit* and relying
>>> on the free Libre Office <http://www.libreoffice.org/>.
>>>
>>> I'll report my findings.
>>>
>>> I'm scared...
>>>
>>>
>>> *Only on my laptop. Not my desktop workhorse yet.
>>> Despite evidence to the contrary, I'm not *that* silly.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Mark Kelly
>>>
>>> mark at vceit.com
>>> http://vceit.com
>>>
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Mark Kelly

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