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anticapitalista wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:01 am please delete spammer above

In fact he is not a spammer: he is just pointing out that the software in question is non-free and expensive.
I reported his post before I realized that it was really OK, and I see no way to cancel my report.

GuiGuy wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:26 am

anticapitalista wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:01 am please delete spammer above

In fact he is not a spammer: he is just pointing out that the software in question is non-free and expensive.
I reported his post before I realized that it was really OK, and I see no way to cancel my report.

What's actually missing in that post is that Softmaker Office is an excellent Office Product
and comes in two variants:
As commercial product
and
as a freeware product https://www.freeoffice.com/en/
The freeware version is full functional, with only some slight restrictions,e.g not a full commercial
spell-and grammer-checker included, but the opensource spellchecker variant.
What I understand from users using it, and from published reports,
is that SoftmakerOffice/Freeoffice beats most other commercial and free Office products
including LibreOffice in regard to compatibility to MS Office.

GuiGuy wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:26 am

anticapitalista wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:01 am please delete spammer above

In fact he is not a spammer: he is just pointing out that the software in question is non-free and expensive.
I reported his post before I realized that it was really OK, and I see no way to cancel my report.

How do you know that the post is pointing out the app is non-free and expensive?
It seems to me that poster is advertising the product (and not the 'free' one)

anticapitalista wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:05 am

GuiGuy wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:26 am

anticapitalista wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:01 am please delete spammer above

In fact he is not a spammer: he is just pointing out that the software in question is non-free and expensive.
I reported his post before I realized that it was really OK, and I see no way to cancel my report.

How do you know that the post is pointing out the app is non-free and expensive?
It seems to me that poster is advertising the product (and not the 'free' one)

Agreed in this sense, it is a stupid spam post.

That's how I saw it, and acted.

Thanks for that interesting information, fehlix.
I will try the freeware version.

The free version of Softmaker is a fine product for MS-Office-Documents. Better support than LO. The freeware product has limitations. You can't save in the old MS-Formats *.doc, *.xls *.ppt and you have no commercial spell-checker, see posting by fehlix. Documents in the free standard *.odt are supported but no others. That's a shame. This restriction have all variants of Softmaker Office and for all versions you need to register.

I personally use the Standard Version of the product. Standard Version can save Documents in the old *.doc, *.xls, formats etc. but the commercial spell-checker only aviable in the professional edition.

fehlix wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:02 am What's actually missing in that post is that Softmaker Office is an excellent Office Product
and comes in two variants:
As commercial product
and
as a freeware product https://www.freeoffice.com/en/
The freeware version is full functional, with only some slight restrictions,e.g not a full commercial
spell-and grammer-checker included, but the opensource spellchecker variant.
What I understand from users using it, and from published reports,
is that SoftmakerOffice/Freeoffice beats most other commercial and free Office products
including LibreOffice in regard to compatibility to MS Office.

I know you defend your fellow citizen fehlix
Softmaker is good indeed even in his free version but sincerely I tried many software and no one is perfectly compatible with M$ office standards and SM is no exception. It's sad to say but even Office is not fully compatible with another version of Office.