Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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beekaytee - Dec 19, 2013 5:46:10 am PST #23418 of 25512
Compassionately intolerant

Hey, does anyone use Screenflow 3?

I've watched a ton of tutorials and read the manual and _still_ cannot master fading an audio clip. If anyone feels proficient, I would be ubergrateful for some help, here, via email, skype...whatever!!


Consuela - Dec 19, 2013 6:32:20 am PST #23419 of 25512
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Looks like I really need to get MS Word on my Macbook: how do I do that? What do I look for in the App store?


le nubian - Dec 19, 2013 9:57:55 am PST #23420 of 25512
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

You have to buy MS Office in order to get Word on your Macbook. I think you might be able to get it from Amazon.

It is not cheap. Are you sure you need Word? Meaning: can Pages or Google Docs do what you need?


Jessica - Dec 19, 2013 9:59:56 am PST #23421 of 25512
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have an Office 365 subscription - I think Microsoft is trying to move everyone over to the subscription model:

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megan walker - Dec 19, 2013 10:11:41 am PST #23422 of 25512
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yes, they are, which is fucking annoying. Especially since I could get software at in-house prices.

But, regardless, there's no way I want to pay $100/year for it.


juliana - Dec 19, 2013 10:17:32 am PST #23423 of 25512
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Unless you absolutely are required to have Word, I'd go with OpenOffice or GoogleDocs.


Consuela - Dec 19, 2013 2:48:59 pm PST #23424 of 25512
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Unless you absolutely are required to have Word, I'd go with OpenOffice or GoogleDocs.

Well, I have Open Office and a Google account, but the formatting just isn't perfectly compatible with Word. I tried converting back and forth from Word to OO last summer, and I couldn't leave comments in the text in OO: saving them to a .doc file made them all one comment, all mashed together. It's damned annoying.


DCJensen - Dec 19, 2013 5:38:51 pm PST #23425 of 25512
All is well that ends in pizza.

How about to .docx?


Gudanov - Dec 20, 2013 3:45:02 am PST #23426 of 25512
Coding and Sleeping

If your needs aren't very complex, there's also the web version of Word that comes along with a free Skydrive account. It's actually pretty good.


Gudanov - Dec 20, 2013 3:47:32 am PST #23427 of 25512
Coding and Sleeping

Is the Student and Home version of Word available for Mac? It's reasonably priced, not cheap, but reasonable. It includes three licenses.