Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

...attending a school with a lot of experience in university entrance ...

My school never even mentioned Uni, and we were just about 4 miles away from what I now find out is one of the best. It simply wasn't for "people like us", it was for middle class people. I wasn't aware of anybody going to Uni, or speaking of one, or anything. Even teachers back then hadn't had to go.

PasturesNew

I've just had a random phone call from a job agency - my name appeared on one of their outputs as being somebody who might meet criteria for a job... I asked him where it was, he said "London", I said "I'm in Cornwall, so not looking to go so far right now", he didn't seem to know how far that is.... I said "If I said I am in Paris, would you have called me?" He said he wouldn't.... I said "Well Paris is nearer than I am".

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

I do wonder what the professional take-up of Office 2010 is. I tried to look it up and it seemed that the initial take up was higher in the home market rather than commercial. For the most part I still use 2003 at work. If I thought the majority of British companies weren't bothering to upgrade, I don't know that I would. The problem is I don't know what they are doing.

I find a lot use office but will mainly only upgrade when they have to.

Generali wrote: »

You don't need Adobe to create .pdf files. I use this:

http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp

I use this and it also works great http://www.pdf995.com/download.html

I send all my quotes and invoiced by PDF except the odd one by snail mail if i must.

GDB2222 wrote: »

There's only one person who sends me excel 2007/10 files. Everyone else is at least still saving files in the earlier format, and I suspect using Excel 2003 to produce them.

I upgraded recently when i couldn't open a file.

GDB2222

sss555s wrote: »

I upgraded recently when i couldn't open a file.

I installed the conversion pack, but there are still files that cause issues.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am in a town notorious for drink fuelled problems and rampant drunken holidaymakers. The police station here's only open Tues-Fri 10-2 and 3-7 and Saturdays 9-2. A total of 37 hours/week.

A few years back there were only 2 cops on the beat, with 12,000 clubbers rolling out of clubs and when the 2-3 cells were full they'd have to drive a 50 mile round trip to another jail to bang them up .... so they weren't bothering as it'd mean 0 police.

You must be in a mysterious Cornish town / village / hamlet / city about which we know nothing?

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

....

shhhhhh ...

neverdespairgirl

See above (-:

neverdespairgirl

I use Open Office, which is great. You can save files in any number of formats, too. And it's free.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

You must be in a mysterious Cornish town / village / hamlet / city about which we know nothing?

Goodness ... you're good

PasturesNew

I have Office 2003. I've used Open Office, but as I've been using Word since Word 2 and Excel since Excel 4 ... and have written/delivered training in both of them since then - and supported both of them .... I kind of prefer using Word/Excel because I already know the functionality inside out.

But I've not used more modern versions of them because I've not had my hands on them.

For PDFs, I do happen to have the full Adobe Distiller set, acquired circa 2005. I don't use Adobe Acrobat though as it's too resource-hungry for my PC and instead I use FoxIT Reader and FoxIT Editor for PDFs. What I like about FoxIT is the way it automatically loads loads of PDFs as tabs in one window by default, which is handy sometimes when I am researching stuff and load 3-4 PDFs in short succession.

I am in the "can't afford to buy software" camp. Shortly followed by the "I could get my hands on just about anything I wanted if I asked around for a few hours" camp. Generally though, I write stuff in Word 2003 or just in html in Notepad.

I am utterly useless at anything to do with graphics though .... and only this week discovered paint.net - which is like Paint, but actually like Photoshop. So if you just need to make minor adjustments and add a layer or two (e.g. making a banner with words on top of the picture) I think paint.net might be just something I can finally use. (Although having gone to paint.net it does say it should be getpaint.net, but it loads in a frame anyway on the paint.net site so it's all the same difference). It's on my "explore this" list.