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What program (Word to PDF, PP, etc..) is most often or easiest to use when writing up a report?
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

    What program (Word to PDF, PP, etc..) is most often or easiest to use when writing up a report?
    I use Open Office and find it to be best for me because it leaves all the links live.

    George Wright
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    • Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

      I use Open Office and find it to be best for me because it leaves all the links live.

      George Wright
      Office has a free plugin (just google it) that will convert a word doc to a pdf for you.

      I create all my reports in word and then convert them to pdf when I'm done.
      Easy and works really well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rod Cortez
      Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

      I use Open Office and find it to be best for me because it leaves all the links live.

      George Wright
      I'm with George and Shay, I like using open office for simple reports. For more complex ones where I need more formatting, creating table of contents, etc. I use Adobe. And I dictate them using Dragon Naturally Speaking......

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  • Profile picture of the author James-Robson
    If you just want a simple report, then Word followed by a pdf conversion will do just fine. Use whatever software you feel most comfortale with and will do the job you need it to do
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  • Profile picture of the author NakedBen
    Thanks for that George. Lately my Word docs haven't converted well to PDF.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dann Vicker
    You can write in word and convert to open office document. Publish the open office document as a pdf and you're good to go.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anders Eastgrove
    I like Google docs. You always have access to them, no matter where you are, and it's really easy to collaborate with partners and outsourcers.

    There are a few limitations, but not anything that matters for simple reports. The things I want to do some more advanced layouts for, like books for Kindle publishing, I still write in Google docs. When it's written I do the layout in Adobes InDesign. Well... or outsource it.
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  • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
    For my recent WSO, I used word and converted to PDF. Worked great!
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Open office because it's free and sooooo easy to convert to PDF. One click does it.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnes4th
    I used to use Open Office, but have recently switched to Libre Office. For all intents and purposes, it is essentially the same.

    From what I have read, it is a fork from the Open Office code base which is more community driven without the oversight of Oracle. It also seems to be updated a little more often.

    The reason I switched was Dragon Speak Naturally seems to play much nicer and faster with Libre Office.
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  • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
    I have always just used Microsoft Word and chosen to save documents as PDFs - I don't think it can get more simple than that
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  • Profile picture of the author Igman
    Microsoft Word is the easiest one to use. I have Word 2007, it converts everything pretty well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    When I need to make a PDF I just design it in WordPad, then convert to PDF with Nitro Reader.

    www.nitroreader.com
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    • Profile picture of the author ShayB
      Open Office - I use it with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and can convert to a PDF in one click. Very simple.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I use Word and neevia to convert the word document to PDF.

    Never had any problems with this setup.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arroway
    Hi guys, I use the newest version of word for my ebooks and never had a problem at all. You can save your document as a PDF right away and not a plug-in or anything.

    Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Open Office here, too - both for the links and the one click PDF -- 2 or 3 clicks if ya want to lock it. Like OO for the actual formatting better than MS, too.
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    • Profile picture of the author ShayB
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Open Office here, too - both for the links and the one click PDF -- 2 or 3 clicks if ya want to lock it. Like OO for the actual formatting better than MS, too.
      Same here. I've used both MS and OO and I much prefer OO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elluminati
    I mainly use PowerPoint (I know, seems a bit odd) and convert to PDF, but looks like I need to hop on the Open Office train.
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  • Profile picture of the author abuhanifa
    you can use wordtopdf converter . google "wordtopdf converter" .
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  • Profile picture of the author J Bold
    I always used Open Office and then the one-click solution to PDF.

    But for some reason Open Office quit working on my computer and I cannot figure out why. All scans for viruses turn up nothing. No idea what happened, there.

    So, I download Libre Office (where the old Open Office developers went to when there was a shake-up at Open Office) and it works even better than Open Office ever did, for me, and is essentially the same program.

    It just seems to run faster and not crash as often as Open Office while having all the same features. So I use Libre Office, and when I make it a PDF, use the same one-click export to PDF feature that Open Office has.
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