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<blockquote data-quote="RavingMac" data-source="post: 1315617" data-attributes="member: 45350">You can write an essay in any of the packages mentioned, and should be able to share it with your professors without issue.Things to consider in a choice (which we don't know about you):1) What is your long-term usage? Will you be graduating to a job that will require you to continue to use Office Products (MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.)?&nbsp; If so, you would almost certainly be better off going with MS Office (even though it costs more) because of the skills and experience you will gain.2) Will you be collaborating on projects, requiring you to jointly work on documents with others? Again, in this instance, MS Office is probably a better choice.3) Will you be more interested in Grapically based document creation, potentially moving up to Adobe CS? In this instance, not sure what I would reccomend, though I might lean toward Pages4) Is your usage strictly for completion of assigned tasks and your educational goals are other than as described above? In that case I would probably go with LibreOffice (or one of the other open source packages).&nbsp; Though, again, Pages or MS Office would also serve just as well hereHTHRazormac</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RavingMac, post: 1315617, member: 45350"] You can write an essay in any of the packages mentioned, and should be able to share it with your professors without issue. Things to consider in a choice (which we don't know about you): 1) What is your long-term usage? Will you be graduating to a job that will require you to continue to use Office Products (MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.)? If so, you would almost certainly be better off going with MS Office (even though it costs more) because of the skills and experience you will gain. 2) Will you be collaborating on projects, requiring you to jointly work on documents with others? Again, in this instance, MS Office is probably a better choice. 3) Will you be more interested in Grapically based document creation, potentially moving up to Adobe CS? In this instance, not sure what I would reccomend, though I might lean toward Pages 4) Is your usage strictly for completion of assigned tasks and your educational goals are other than as described above? In that case I would probably go with LibreOffice (or one of the other open source packages). Though, again, Pages or MS Office would also serve just as well here HTH Razormac [/QUOTE]

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