<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Look into ‘OpenOffice.’ It’s open source/shareware ... it has Word and Excel equivalents (dunno about pdf export though).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 6, 2020, at 12:42 PM, Tim . <tims_datsun_stuff@outlook.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Had to buy a new laptop. For years I've been using an office products suite license that I bought years ago. As each old laptop dies, I get another used one, move the license, etc etc. </div>
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This Win10 machine won't run this old software. No surprise there. </div>
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Sooooooo.....I need Word and Excel for my side hustle. I am not against buying stand alones if I have to but if I am seeing this correctly, they are now only "annual licenses" that would have to be renewed each year. What a crock...er, I mean racket. </div>
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I looked at open source but there are so many that I quickly got confused. </div>
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One thing that is a must have is creating an invoice in Word then saving it as a pdf for sending to our customers. If none of the open source stuff has this feature, then I'd be forced to go with Word. </div>
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Shop content: I am selling buying and selling parts that are stored in my garage shop and my basement shop. </div>
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Thanks all</div>
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