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        <title><![CDATA[thank you]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3706421]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why is this even an issue?  Microsoft has a (free as in beer) patch for older versions that lets them read and write the new .tlax files in addition to their native .tla files.Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this is only a problem for people who a) are using software that is over 5 years old and b) haven't bothered to patch it in the meantime, so it's hard to feel a whole lot of sympathy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ptorq]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:06:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[a little icon which was always in sight...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704567]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Just take the top 35 things you do and put the icon for each of them in your Quick Access Toolbar. I rarely need to even go into the ribbon or even the Office Button. It is still 2 clicks for a new doc but that's 50% better than 4!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lsangree@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:00:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&quot;We see no reason to migrate to modern formats&quot; was a strategic decision.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704508]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Expecting bidirectional interoperability between very old, EOL formats, and very new cutting-edge technology does not make sense.Making a decision to avoid migrating to a format that is obviously replacing an older format, for nearly a decade, should have been a decision with easily foreseeable future consequences.The future consequence is you may finally have to install the '.docx' import plugin for those ancient copies of Office 2003.  Take it as an opportunity to make a PowerPoint about how much money was saved by installing the free import plugin, vs. cost of new licenses.Alternative: continue doing business as you have been, ignoring new technologies as you have been doing.  Full interoperability between cloud tech and old, replaced file formats is not a safe thing to assume will happen.  If lack of full, native, bidirectional interoperability between legacy 'doc' / 'xls' formats is having enough of an impact on anyone's business that it's &quot;a very big deal&quot;, someone is doing something wrong.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[brian@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:42:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OK, I've got two suggestions on how you may want to try to keep your]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704404]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[MS Office 2003 working for you:1. Install Zorin OS Linux and run MSO 2003 in WINE.http://zorin-os.com/2. Install React OS and check out how MSO 2003 runs for you. The people at React are creating an OS that works EXACTLY like Win XP but much more stable.http://www.reactos.org/en/index.htmlKeep in mind that Microsoft is now trying to push everyone over to their Cloud version of MSO.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:01:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That ends it]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704402]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I've been using MS Word since the early DOS days (was never able to remember the 40+ key combinations of WP!). Vista has given me more than my share of problems with Word XP. Only &quot;suggestion&quot; each time Word crashes: get something newer ;-(I need this version (or 2003) for professional reasons. Besides, an extensive user on a daily basis, I keep discovering features I was unaware of (recently a way to clean up styles by quantities: useful if someone opened your file in OOo or Libre Office and at any time you want to clean up some of the ballast present in your file - WP did shine in that respect).Furthermore there are very few so called &quot;new&quot; features that are useful to me in Word 2010. On the contrary, the dawn Ribbon thing slows me down when working (just one basic example : 4 clicks through several menus to open a &quot;new&quot; document, while, on the &quot;older&quot; version, one just had to click a little icon which was always in sight ).I did consider Google Docs, but this ends it...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[francisvandenplas@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:56:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You need to recheck you facts, Libre Office has compatibility]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704346]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[with all MS Word .doc files as part of the basic native install. However, MS Office stylesheets are another matter as MS have some odd style format codes and they also change them, so I can see where they may need fixing. Libre Office does have French and Dutch versions, and I know they have a Dutch dictionary and a French one available as a download too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:43:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An XP lover]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Come on man. As far as I am concerned I never had a grudge against XP: I eagerly embraced it... after SP2. And I always loved Office XP/2003, the more I was able to exploit the plethora of features. As Vista trashed my perfectly able desktop HD (6550 CRC errors!) with a few perfectly aimed BSD's, I have to use my portable with 2010. Believe me, I can feel the difference ;-(]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[francisvandenplas@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:49:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Future?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Believe me, for a seasoned user, 2007 and/or 2010 are in no way the &quot;future&quot; of Word. I will only admit that the damned ribbon can be useful for the computer illiterate newborn...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[francisvandenplas@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:40:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kings Office]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you want the real look and feel of Word XP-2003, you should give the free KingSoft Office  a try. It really looks like a perfect twin (some little details missing in a few submenu's. This little Chinaman offers almost perfect compatibility with .doc files (Libre and OOo do this only to an extent), stylesheets are perfectly taken care of (only are the styles not alphabetically sorted, I wonder why). And if you really want a ribbon (which I did not test), well they have one too and you can just toggle between those &quot;skins&quot;. I was also even  able to rescue some files Vista trashed (see my other comment under&quot; again!&quot;,  but here Libre and OOo, besides partly trashing my stylesheets can recover more files...). My only problem is that my professional contacts, over here, are not fluent enough in English to use it and, personally, I can't do without French and Dutch spellcheckers. KingsOffice doesn't have them. Otherwise I would even consider their Pro version, not because it has so many more to offer, but because I believe a good job deserves a reward!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[francisvandenplas@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:25:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[As I said, I've not tried a transfered Macro, but LO does have]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704170]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Macro making capability. Nor have I tried a pivot table in it. But it does handle links OK. My main use is the creation of books and print ready PDF files and LO is superior to MS Word in doing those.I suggest you might find it worth the effort to download a copy and try out your Macros etc.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:58:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can LO handle]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704149]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Pivot tables, embedded, hot links, static and dynamic links, macros, .....Database?  Hope you aren't saying ...... Access.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rhonin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:18:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Have the same custom issue]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With our Engineering and Finance departments.Moving from MSOffice would require redoing a lot of custom work.  This is something I doubt LO could handle.  That makes it a no go.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rhonin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:13:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Might want to include customers or suppliers]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3704154]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Same here - we are a mix of Google, 2010, and 2007.But, we have many suppliers, contractors, etc, that are still on 2003.We can recommend they plate but cannot force the issue.  We do have a program underway to migrate to PDF.This will mean our Goog users will have to swap to 2010.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rhonin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:08:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[so what?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i dont know anyone who uses google docs. this will simply mean that fewer ever will until the older office suites are totally out of sync w/ the rest of the world.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[inertman@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:13:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Years ago Sun started an office suite that later became Open Office, when]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-395050-3703904]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[they sold it to Oracle the new owners wanted to take it off in a direction that made it a lot more dependent upon various Oracle products. The open source community that had been working on Open Office for many years did not like this. When discussion about this with Oracle broke down the majority of the people involved walked away from Oracle and Open Office and started a fork of Open Office and they called in Libre Office, Libre as in free. This has now progress well past Open Office as the better people are working on it. They've also reduced the dependency on Java that Sun had been introducing into Open Office.Today, Libre Office is far superior to Open Office and also much better than Microsoft Office. The only problem you may have is if you have a LOT of VBA macros, I've not tried Libre Office with VBA macros, so I don't know how it will go.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:58:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Microsoft Office Online]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So... It just occurred to me... Doesn't Microsoft Office Online support the old doc format just fine? I know I upload Office 97 Word documents all the time to my SkyDrive and they open just fine in the online viewer/editor provided with Skydrive. Does this signal an exodus from Google Docs to Microsoft's solution?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Nawrocki]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:46:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[office 2003 - office 2007 compability package]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it should not be a problem, since there is always still the office 2007 compability package'splus for instance docx files are mostly smaller in size then their .doc counterparts....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dutch2005nl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:42:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[changing from Microsoft 2003]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't like the term Libre Office what is this program one that can be monitored by our fraud government]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[acer516]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:08:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Extra work to ensure compatibility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As Google keeps updating their applications it is just extra work to make sure it can export in 97-2003 format when the 2007+ version uses XML and is the new (and more stable) standard.This may free Google up to putting more into  their product?  One can hope! ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hometoy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:47:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Use Office 2007 Software but Office 2003 file formats]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We tried to stay current and upgraded everybody to Office 2007 several years back. Too late we discovered Microsoft made a major change in the way it handles links/link updating between versions. MS engineers have confirmed this was a deliberate change. The Microsoft suggested workaround is just to save all our documents in the Office 2003 format. We lose some feature functionality, but less than if we lost our link functionality when we copy/move documents to new folders. We could buy LinkFixer and run it all the time on files in the new format, but that seems to be an unnecessary expense for now. When 2003 is no longer supported....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lsangree@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:47:19 -0700</pubDate>
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