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I should have realized this a long time ago.
Our ISP contacted us last July about upgrading the church's internet service. They're installing new cables (fiberoptic? I think?) and wanted to get us to sign a contract to switch over to the faster service. (Which we will, because they're the only service in the area, and a five-year contract comes out to the same per month as we're paying now, so it would be stupid not to take the faster service.) Anyway, they'll be throwing in a lot of bells and whistles, including ten professional Microsoft Office licenses. Now, the church does not need ten professional licenses; there's only two employees, me and the secretary. So I figured, duh, let my own license expire and get one of the ones the church is going to get thrown in with our new internet!
Problem: they contacted us in July, my Office license ran out in September, and it's now almost March and still no word on when the new service is going to GET here. And I got a new computer in December. On my old laptop, Word et al still work, you just get an annoying message that you need to renew your subscription. On the new laptop, purchased after my license ran out, Word is strictly read-only.
Problem is, I much prefer writing in Word to writing in Google Docs. The differences are just enough to be really annoying.
And for posting my fic, I have a nice flow to get the Word doc format into postable shape where everything turns out the way I want it. It's simple, it's quick, there are no surprises between Word's code and AO3 or wherever. It does not work with Google Docs, you get those extra line breaks. And yes, I know, there are ways to strip those out, but it's annoying and I want to do it the way I already am familiar with.
But I didn't have Office on my personal laptop, so my choices were a) use my old laptop with the charging/power cord issues, b) use my tablet with the tiny keyboard, c) use my work computer which is sloooooooooooow as molasses, d) use Google Docs, or E) pay $70 for a year's license for Microsoft Office. None of which choices I like.
And then today I realized: you can use Word online through Microsoft OneDrive, just like GoogleDocs.
🤦♀️
Our ISP contacted us last July about upgrading the church's internet service. They're installing new cables (fiberoptic? I think?) and wanted to get us to sign a contract to switch over to the faster service. (Which we will, because they're the only service in the area, and a five-year contract comes out to the same per month as we're paying now, so it would be stupid not to take the faster service.) Anyway, they'll be throwing in a lot of bells and whistles, including ten professional Microsoft Office licenses. Now, the church does not need ten professional licenses; there's only two employees, me and the secretary. So I figured, duh, let my own license expire and get one of the ones the church is going to get thrown in with our new internet!
Problem: they contacted us in July, my Office license ran out in September, and it's now almost March and still no word on when the new service is going to GET here. And I got a new computer in December. On my old laptop, Word et al still work, you just get an annoying message that you need to renew your subscription. On the new laptop, purchased after my license ran out, Word is strictly read-only.
Problem is, I much prefer writing in Word to writing in Google Docs. The differences are just enough to be really annoying.
And for posting my fic, I have a nice flow to get the Word doc format into postable shape where everything turns out the way I want it. It's simple, it's quick, there are no surprises between Word's code and AO3 or wherever. It does not work with Google Docs, you get those extra line breaks. And yes, I know, there are ways to strip those out, but it's annoying and I want to do it the way I already am familiar with.
But I didn't have Office on my personal laptop, so my choices were a) use my old laptop with the charging/power cord issues, b) use my tablet with the tiny keyboard, c) use my work computer which is sloooooooooooow as molasses, d) use Google Docs, or E) pay $70 for a year's license for Microsoft Office. None of which choices I like.
And then today I realized: you can use Word online through Microsoft OneDrive, just like GoogleDocs.
🤦♀️
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Date: 2020-03-07 03:37 am (UTC)From: