Pages Tagged “Office”
Reviews
- Google Docs, Sheets and Slides ★★★☆☆ Fast cloud-based office suite, with good collaboration and mobile support. Too bad I don’t trust Google’s servers any more than Microsoft’s these days.
- LibreOffice ★★★★☆ A complete open-source and Free office suite for your desktop or laptop, comparable to and largely compatible with Microsoft Office. I’ve been using the word processor and spreadsheets for decades on Linux, years on Windows, and occasionally on macOS.
Blog Posts
- Officebot
New design for Optimus Prime? Or maybe that should be Office-mus Prime.
- Flooded!
Wow…nothing like flood damage in the office to start a Monday morning. Fortunately people were in over the weekend & caught it. Ooh, neat! Server problems too! (Not flood-related.) But wait, there’s more! They had to shut off the water line to the coffee maker! Can the entire office manage on a tiny 3-cup coffee […]
- Just Another Spammy Monday
Spam subject: “TPA Report.” It should be a TPS Report, but the keys are, like, right next to each other. I guess even spammers can get a case of the Mondays.
- In Your Office
A long row of furniture stores sits in the city of Lake Forest, on a frontage road alongside the 5 freeway. Among them is this: I can just see the exchange at the workplace: “Nice chair! Where’d you get it?” “In your office.” “Hey! What’s the big idea!”
- Bathroom Humor
One of the two soap dispensers in the bathroom at work has been broken for months. I think the building doesn’t fix it because it looks full. Over the past week or two, someone has started writing things like “Broken” or “Still Broken” (or, one day, “Kaput”) on paper towels and leaving them underneath or […]
- Taking the Web Beyond the Typewriter
I recently stumbled across an old copy of the Demoroniser (which my American-trained sense of spelling keeps trying to spell as demoronizer), a script designed to correct some of the, well, moronic HTML generated by Microsoft Office. Aside from flat-out coding errors, Office would use non-standard characters for things such as curly quotes or em-dashes […]