What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[TSTR]

The only two suit colors that never go out of style in 99.9% of situations are charcoal gray and navy. Black can sometimes come off as tacky or too dressy, depending on the occasion.

[Luke]

The only two suit colors that never go out of style in 99.9% of situations are charcoal gray and navy.

Medium grey is usually a sure bet too. Grey suit with a light blue tie makes for a great combination.

Three piece suits are back as well. Plus in the Summer months you can take off your jacket and still look professional with your vest still on.

http://www.bettercallsaul.com/dresslikesaul.html

[TSTR]

Medium gray can kinda look old man status sometimes, but that's just me.

[CRTGAMER]

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

Are you a student? Many universities sell a discounted version of Office.

Last I checked you got ~10% off buying from the university. All that covers is tax essentially.

I still use Office 2003.

I prefer OFFLINE data storage and do not like the idea of dependence of an online program to write a letter. Meanwhile I am typing this post.

An older version of MS Office could be an option though there might be compatibility issues if you continued say an Excel file off a newer version. However, a more recent older version such as Office 2011 should be inexpensive and might be fine as far as document transference between Office 2013 or whatever the newest drive you Madden version is.

[dsheinem]

do you nean like solid black? when have they ever been in style...outside maybe weddings or the like?

[lisalover1]

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

Are you a student? Many universities sell a discounted version of Office.

Last I checked you got ~10% off buying from the university. All that covers is tax essentially.

I still use Office 2003.

I prefer OFFLINE data storage and do not like the idea of dependence of an online program to write a letter. Meanwhile I am typing this post.

An older version of MS Office could be an option though there might be compatibility issues if you continued say an Excel file off a newer version. However, a more recent older version such as Office 2011 should be inexpensive and might be fine as far as document transference between Office 2013 or whatever the newest drive you Madden version is.

If you feel the compulsion to have a local solution for office applications, at least get OpenOffice. The idea of paying anything - or at least, more than a few dollars for office applications in this day and age is laughable. That is, unless you need some super-specific and obscure function that no developer has added in or made an addon for, which is a rare case. But, to each their own - I'm not going to stop anyone from using what they want.

[dsheinem]

The idea of paying anything - or at least, more than a few dollars for office applications in this day and age is laughable.

There's plenty of real-world contexts where a standard office suite across a group of workers is expected. Converting Open Office or Google Docs to Word, PPT, or XLSX almost always comes with the loss of some of the look of the original (formatting gets messed up, transitions go away, cells don't align, etc.). I can tell you that I have many colleagues who don't know what to do with an ODF file that is emailed to them... and plenty of students that don't know how to use a reasonable range of tools in any Office program, which (like it or not) is a standard in most work environments.

So while feature-wise Office has a lot of competition, it is so ubiquitous inn so many fields that it is generally worth having.

[TSTR]

The Ubiquitous Inn, where there is MS Office in the business suite, and you can restore all your HP and MP. We'll leave the light on for ya.

[Ziggy]

The idea of paying anything - or at least, more than a few dollars for office applications in this day and age is laughable.

There's plenty of real-world contexts where a standard office suite across a group of workers is expected. Converting Open Office or Google Docs to Word, PPT, or XLSX almost always comes with the loss of some of the look of the original (formatting gets messed up, transitions go away, cells don't align, etc.).

At my job, we're actually using MS Word and Excel for templates to print requisition forms. If the formatting was off a hair on one of those, especially the excel template, it would cause things to be printed in the wrong fields on the form. Forget about Open Office, we had an issue with printing from an older version of MS Office when the template was made in the current version.

[fastbilly1]

I use all sorts of office. Open, Office XP, Office 2010, Office 2013. Work gave me a copy of 2013 for home use so I wasnt going to say no. If I had not gotten it for free, I would rock my Office XP that I paid for in 2001.

Ticked - Covered my pool over the weekend, pulled something in my back because of it.
Smiled - Finally got Visual Pinball working over the weekend. Spent two hours playing Doctor Who, Addams Family, Twilight Zone, and Getaway. Then my wife played a couple rounds of Doctor Who and said those fateful words "this would be better in a cabinet."