{"id":416,"date":"2007-02-12T16:36:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T21:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnstamfordlibrary.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/12\/microsoft-office-product-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T21:36:03","slug":"microsoft-office-product-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2007\/02\/12\/microsoft-office-product-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office Product Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The JRL library&#8217;s SuperHOMER workstations are NOT  equipped with the Microsoft Office products (word, excel, powerpoint, access). You can however save or email a word document so you can download and view the document for quick edits. Please remember to save (using a USB portable drive) or email (to another email account like Huskymail) a back up copy to your work.<\/p>\n<p>The campus microlab has the Microsoft Office  products.  Howerver, there are some free alternatives out there.  Google offer&#8217;s  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\">Docs and Spreadsheets<\/a>&#8221;  (formerly called Writely).<\/p>\n<p>For non-Office users who need a rough equivalent to Office should examine the Zoho Virtual Office (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoho.com\">www.zoho.com<\/a>)  It doesn&#8217;t have the polish or the features of Microsoft&#8217;s offerings, but it does have similar core functionality and it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>As with Google-created documents, the documents created by Zoho&#8217;s applications are stored on the web, so you can get to them from any Internet-connected computer.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JRL library&#8217;s SuperHOMER workstations are NOT equipped with the Microsoft Office products (word, excel, powerpoint, access). You can however save or email a word document so you can download and view the document for quick edits. Please remember to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2007\/02\/12\/microsoft-office-product-alternatives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL2n-6I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}