Office 2013, I hate change

Uh Oh

I may have to get Access 2013 if I expect to do 10 hours of work for a client every other month or so.

Ugghh... I do Access programming and I'm still on Office 2003 at work, but some people have been upgraded to 2010.  I have 2010 at home, mostly to get ready for the inevitable at work, but I'm not looking forward to yet another version to have to be prepared for.  At least at work they tend to skip around and take time their time before updating Office, so there is a chance I won't have to deal with 2013 there.

Genghis


Ugghh... I do Access programming and I'm still on Office 2003 at work, but some people have been upgraded to 2010.  I have 2010 at home, mostly to get ready for the inevitable at work, but I'm not looking forward to yet another version to have to be prepared for.  At least at work they tend to skip around and take time their time before updating Office, so there is a chance I won't have to deal with 2013 there.

I use/program access 2007 and 2010 at work. I am getting a little nervous since there seems to be very little info about any changes to Access 2013. I also don't like the licensing tied to the original machine.

Another plus for LibreOffice. Very recent note that ver 4 is out.

I had the even more ancient Office 2003 or whatever installed.

Went to Win 7 and the MS bastards had me at ransom. This said with all the deep respect to what Microsoft and Bill have done for planetary information exchange.

Win 7 doesn't recognize my version of Word. Response to my inquiry was that they were in full sympathy with my problem and are there to make things right and guide me through to the Light. All it requires is a couple hundred dollars upgrade fee and life will be bliss as long as it is licensed/activated on one computer only...

Fork these theives in spite of the historical good they have done otherwise...

Went with Open Office and then Libre Office. These programs were a joke 5 years ago, but not now. Serious competitors. David and Goliath glory for the end user.

Libre and Open are closely related and a cooperative effort. I went with Libre a year or so back because they were ahead in opening the file X formats of the new Office. Don't know where Open Office is currently.

Libre and Open lack a replacement for Outlook, and like said, some subtle formatting may be missed opening an Access file from Windows in Libre.

Conventional opinion is that Outlook is replaced by Thunderbird email and their Calendar app, though don't have info on whether Thunderbird can navigate on a collective field. Like updates in the address book etc on a server system, say across multiple sites of an extended company.

Otherwise, the project is evolving and growing strength and grace in its open source rivalry.

Free, no activation scheme, opens anything MS can spit out. Well worth the investigation and download.
 
http://www.libreoffice.org/

John
 
edit to add Libre Office link

work just upgraded to office 2010 and it's driving me nuts.

dual screens at work and I can open a word document on each window no problem.  but excel, no.  have to do a convoluted open blah blah then it will open two instances.  then ya close everything and have to do it all over again.  truely frustrating especially since the SAME 2010 word works automatically opening another instance of word.

change is hard.  as I get older changes is more challenging.

I didn't even know  there was a 2013 ugh.

I'm still using Office 2003 Professional and it does everything I need.  

Office 2003 is not listed on the Win 8 compatibility list and not supposed to work but I have it installed on my Win 8 Pro installation and Word and Outlook (what I primarily use) works OK on Win 8. 

change is hard. as I get older changes is more challenging.

 
Change is hard for many, not just older.  My day job, before retiring, was as a  Regional LAN/WAN Network and Hardware Help Desk Manager for a US Federal Government Agency.  Before the agency migrated from "dumb" terminals (IBM 3270 terminals) to LAN, I was sent to a 1 week "managing change" seminar.  My tech staff (hardware help desk techs and network techs) were used to change, but the people at our field offices which were administrative types were not really (or not most) ready for a major change in the way they did work with computers.  It was a major task when we went from teletype machines to the dumb computer terminals.  From the dumb computer terminals to PC's and LAN's was even a bigger shock to how they did their jobs as each employee was to get a PC and have access to the agency's remote computer complex.  What small amount of PC computers that were on the sites (maybe one or two PC's) ran older DOS applications including WordPerfect, Lotus 123, dBase, etc.  The new LAN systems (initially Novell netware for the LAN) would be client server systems and MS Office applications, along with a 3270 emulator for on-line access to the agency's central office computer (CICS mainframe) complex. 
 
Talk about a technology shock... They were given training on using the computers and one person in the office was given LAN Administrator training.  In preparation for the LAN conversion, my Help Desk staff was increased and given prior training including PC hardware troubleshooting and repair training.  I was also given contractor help staff, initially Novell CNE's and later MSCE's.