http://www.inpropriapersona.com/2009/09/could-you-scrap-microsoft-office-applications/ Law + technology, from a JD/PhD graduate student in the history of science. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:37:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.inpropriapersona.com/2009/09/could-you-scrap-microsoft-office-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-798 lbergus Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:21:36 +0000 http://www.inpropriapersona.com/?p=878#comment-798 I also use Google Docs for drafting and saving just about everything. But there comes a point, especially with court-type documents (I'm a law student who's had the need to create a few "briefs") and scholarly articles (footnotes!!) that the formatting functionality of a desktop word processor is required. I imagine this is coming with GoogleDocs someday, but for now OpenOffice is great for the Word/WordPerfect compatibility. I will have to check out the return of Lotus! (I recall Lotus 123 from my childhood...) I also use Google Docs for drafting and saving just about everything. But there comes a point, especially with court-type documents (I’m a law student who’s had the need to create a few “briefs”) and scholarly articles (footnotes!!) that the formatting functionality of a desktop word processor is required. I imagine this is coming with GoogleDocs someday, but for now OpenOffice is great for the Word/WordPerfect compatibility. I will have to check out the return of Lotus! (I recall Lotus 123 from my childhood…)

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