{"id":787,"date":"2013-09-03T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2013-09-10T21:02:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T20:02:06","slug":"787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/787\/","title":{"rendered":"1. LibreOffice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?cat=55\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-788\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"techtipsfortradeunionists\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/techtipsfortradeunionists.png\" width=\"234\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/techtipsfortradeunionists.png 447w, https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/techtipsfortradeunionists-300x92.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>Not long ago, a friend asked me if he should buy a copy of Microsoft Office for his new Windows laptop &#8212; or should he get a friend to give him a &#8220;free&#8221; (i.e., pirated) copy.<\/p>\n<p>My answer was one word: &#8220;LibreOffice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> derives from the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a> project, which still exists, and is the free (free as in beer) alternative to Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Microsoft-Office-Business-2013-Download\/dp\/B00B1TGMIS\/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1378216753&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=microsoft+office\">expensive<\/a> office suite.<\/p>\n<p>It has a word processor, spreadsheet, database and power-point-like software.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it can import Microsoft Word files and export files to the Word (.doc) format.<\/p>\n<p>If your union is still paying to use Microsoft&#8217;s office software, isn&#8217;t it time to check out this free and equally good alternative?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, a friend asked me if he should buy a copy of Microsoft Office for his new Windows laptop &#8212; or should he get a friend to give him a &#8220;free&#8221; (i.e., pirated)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips-for-trade-unionists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}