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   Hello Mortar!   
      
   28 Nov 24 18:48, you wrote to me:   
      
    MM> That depends on the complexity of the Word doc.  For your   
    MM> garden-variety document (text and images), I've had no problems.  If   
    MM> the Word doc contains macros, imbedded spreadsheets/graphs, linked   
    MM> data, etc., then you could run into issues, it various on the actual   
    MM> content.   
      
   True.   
      
    MM> Unless you can afford a few hundred bucks, LibreOffice (FREE!) is the   
    MM> better choice.   
      
   You can get legal one-shot Office keys for cheap at gamers-outlet.net.  Office    
   2024 Pro Plus is $33.36.  Office 2021 Pro Plus is $7.23.   
      
   I have never, ever paid full price for Office professionally or personally.   
      
   LO has choked on damn near every Word doc I have given it so I dumped it years    
   ago.  OpenOffice, for me, was more compatible than LO.  Then I discovered    
   OPENOFFICE.  But 9 times out of 10, I run Word docs through a .docx to    
   markdown converter to read if it's for my use only.   
      
   -- Sean   
      
   ... "Thanks a thousand." - Nelson Rockefeller   
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