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OK, you REALLY need to give Open Office a try. It has all the things MSoft's Orifice has, and even reads/imports their files. But it is open source, free, and totally without all that intrusive BS. Download it, give it a whirl for a decent time and then - if you are convinced, just dump Office. Or dump Open Office and go back to frustration. Your choice.

OPEN OFFICE

Or LibreOffice.

I've been running linux for 20 years - various flavors. DSL, Ubuntu, BSD, redhat - too many to list - they certainly have their place.

I'm trying LibreOffice right now, and some of the editing/word processing features simply do not work.

Maybe there is a glitch in my system, but the most maddening is the failure to select, cut and paste or copy a section of text. It works, sometimes, with great difficulty, and tends to move unintended sections of text randomly rather than select and move the section I intend to the place of my choice. I am working on two small books, mostly written, and I gotta get a new computer/word processing system for the next phase of more serious editing and formatting.

FWIW the spell check is also goofy in Libre: it usually catches misspelled words, though not enough to trust it, but at least half of the time gives anything but the obviously correct word. I.e. If you spell "Mississippe" it may give you a choice of meander, muscle or mud as correct options to replace it. To be fair, it just offered a correct spelling for Mississippe. Spell check has replaced typo misspelling errors with another kind of error: correctly spelled wrong word.

My bad to have hijacked a good thread into my struggles with computers.

FreeOffice 2018 May be an alternative to office also

I've never had those problems with Apache Open Office. And I wrote my two books on it.

Will download it and try it. Thanks!

I'm using Libre Office in Windows 7 with no problems except it's slow to load. Would suggest uninstall/reinstall. A shot in the dark but it's easy and sometimes works. Could be you are missing a few modules.