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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rsutter on June 23, 2025, 12:34:41 PM
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Hello All,
This is a re-post of a recent APCUG announcement
Ralph Sutter
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WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP
June 25, 2025
9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT, 12 pm ET
Getting Started with Google Docs
Jolyn Bowler, Resource Director and APCUG Representative
Hilton Head Island Computer Club
Office Smackdown
Chris Taylor, President and System Administrator
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Alan German, Meeting Coordinator
Ottawa PCUG
Register here ? https://forms.gle/5PgfDCFTKwcsFjX57
After you click Submit, you will receive a pop-up acknowledgment of your registration. (see below). You only need to register once.
On June 24, after registration closes at 6 pm Pacific Time, you will receive the encrypted Zoom link.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS
Getting Started with Google Docs, Jolyn Bowler. Google offers a wide range of services to its users. It is a terrific, simple, and easily accessible word-processing tool that rivals MS Word and LibreOffice Writer. Although I use both, my go-to is Google Docs. It offers an intuitive interface for users to create documents easily without complicated setups. Being web-based, Google Docs eliminates the need for downloads, providing instant access from any device with internet connectivity. Two excellent features are the ability to create a PWA (Progressive Web App) that resides on my Taskbar. The other is the relatively new Document Tabs feature. It allows for multiple resources in one document but in different Tabs. Your Google Drive automatically saves all your documents. Docs is also compatible with many file formats. Please join me for a tour.
Office Smackdown: Alan German and Chris Taylor. Microsoft Office is widely used for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, but its cost can be high for personal users. This may become a greater concern if Microsoft, as is sometimes rumored, were to move entirely to a subscription-based, software-as-a-service model. One free and open-source alternative is the LibreOffice suite of applications, which closely mirrors many aspects of the Microsoft product. But how good is this free software, and are there any significant limitations to using LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office? In this presentation, we'll review the features of the major modules in both packages, with a specific focus on compatibility issues. Beyond the dollar savings, we'll examine whether the LibreOffice suite offers any significant advantages over Microsoft's offerings.