i have always used MS Word for writing, but my laptop wheezed and went into a coma last fall and took my MS 2007 with it.
i carefully switched some projects to Google Docs, but now it’s promoting its “AI” software to me.
so i just downloaded LibreOffice and moved my GDocs over to that.
anyway, if anyone has bad news for me about LibreOffice, tell me now, please, thx
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Pre-MS 365, afaik, you didn’t need an account to use what you paid for. You bought a CD-rom and it installed the software on a limited number of devices. There was no oversight from MS, no remembering passwords or agreeing to updates, if you bought it you owned it. I MISS that.
I did get MS 365 through my college, but either because I eventually left college or MS changed their policies I got locked out of 365. Since there was no major difference in the two programs anyway, I just adapted new docs back to MS 2007, but my computer would never open any MS files after that without me first starting up a (loyal, reliable) 2007 program. I truly loathe login/subscription/online-only software.
Anyway, most of my MS Word files are backed up on a flash drive but my new PC won’t let me use the pre-installed MS products without a product key/login and I’m too petty to bother with that nightmare.
Google Docs was always a temporary solution to this mess.
a ton of great advice in the notes for anyone looking for writing software!
Additional info:
OpenOffice is defunct, kaput, no longer exists. Those of you who have it, hooray for you! Enjoy your rare little software. Apparently LibreOffice is a successor of OpenOffice and as “Libre” suggests, it is $$ free $$
Celtx, heretofore unmentioned, is primarily for screenwriting, but when I downloaded it back in 2014 it also had templates for writing and outlining novels. It was free then and the site says it’s still free if anyone wants to try it (there is a one-time signup but I used a burner email and still got the program)