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Love it! Well done Paul!

Excellent choice

Well done PaulT

Why buy office? If you're a business that is pretty much based around office documents and your customers expect it then there's maybe a reason.

For home use, forget it, there are plenty of compatible alternatives.

With Apple kit you get their office suite and for Windows and/or Linux there is Open Office or Libre Office (and yes I use all of the above in different flavours on assorted desktop/laptop setups).

All of those can be used locally without a cloud connection which I find rather useful since i am often out and about and don't have a decent connection. OK you can't sync across multiple devices but if that is a concern then for non-private documents I could always use a cloud storage that doesn't report everything to google or whoever and just open the document in a local application if I have remembered to upload it beforehand. If I didn't remember then tough, it couldn't have been that important.

Hi Darren and welcome

Well done Phil

Welcome Thomas

Hi Nick and welcome. Pull up a chair and get comfy

That is a lovely view and well captured. Congrats on PotW

Indeed, a stunning picture and a worthy PotW,. Well chosen, Kate.

Hi Karen and welcome from just a bit east of you. There's loads of helpful and knowledgeable (and daft in a good way) people on here who will be happy to help in anyway they can.

mmmm coffee and cake...   sounds good to me.

ooh and welcome from just a bit south of you, although I'm often to be found lurking in the Cambridge area.

Welcome Jo, I was going to attempt to greet you in Italian then saw you were originally a Londoner and breathed a sigh of relief.

This is just about the friendliest forum you could wish for and advice and opinions are always freely given (along with the occasional wisecrack) so sit down and get comfortable..

Well done indeed, that's a little beauty

An up to date one of me (taken last night), I'm the one with the black and white shoes!

Hi Mike and welcome from down south

Very well done Geoff, and a great choice by Kate

Excellent examples, Bill.

Hi Matt and welcome from the south of the country

I've appeared in a local paper (page 3, no less) but never submitted pictures to a competition of any sort.

I have a friend who keeps entering and winning stuff, maybe she could give me some tips as long as I don't enter the same ones as she goes for

Well, working during the day is rather limiting during the week as I have limited room and inspiration at home and I don't 'do' cold soggy evenings outdoors, but weekends I hope to be out and about maybe trying my hand at a 'scape or three.

Elsewhere I have been attempting to photograph musicians and dancers which is something that I should be able to continue during the colder months, so watch out for a few more of those, although probably not including me as I am not musical and any reasonable dancing is purely accidental

Great selection of pictures and the use of mono does tend to reduce the impact of any modern backgrounds.

I've found the best way to get a lot of the shots without background problems is to arrive at the events as soon as it opens to the public, preferably before (being known by organisers and other participants also helps)

A lovely set in the original thread and an excellent choice for PotW

Well done Martyn

Loving those mono ones particularly

Welcome back, good to hear you're back on track down there

It's a big update that requires stacks of space if you do the update on the i<whatever> itself.

If you use iTunes, by connecting the device to your computer for the update, the storage space is used on the computer, not on the device so saving a lot of messing around.

Backup is, of course, always advisable before any update.