This.
OpenOffice is discontinued. LibreOffice is the most active fork of OO and as such is now the de facto successor.
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I also had some image embedding problems in LibreOffice a few versions ago but they seem to be gone now.
You might want to give it another try.
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Well, this is a thread about deprecated software! 
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He does not want it and I gave up trying to convince him of anything years ago. Got tired of wasting my time. 
And that is what he will end up doing. His last computer was over fifteen years old before it finally gave up the ghost. 
Thank you for the link @Wes.
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Since when? They released an update to 4.1.7 last fall.
I have a good friend with the same disposition with regards to computers, also in his mid 70s. The last time he asked me for help trying to get a very old version of Outlook to connect via SMTP to his ISP’s mail server, I simply explained to him, “You’ve asked me for advice and help with your technology, but over the years, in general have refused the suggestions that I’ve made. I would love to help you, but tech is constantly evolving. I’m afraid that it’s evolved to the point that I can no longer help you with your email problem. I seriously wish you the best of luck finding another trusted technology adviser. Now let’s have another beer.” Problem solved.
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Lol, will not work. My tech support will remain mandatory with this individual, read as parental unit, until I die or he dies.
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Hmm, interesting, i read somewhere on Wikipedia that it had been discontinued. Mea culpa.
I still think that the community behind LibreOffice is far more active.
Oh, my in-laws trained me well the need to set tech support boundaries. I can remember something like 4 or 5 trips to Ohio where I spent 90% of my Christmas or Thanksgiving “holiday” fixing their tech shame. I even tried migrating them to Macs one year, in hopes that they would use the Supergenius Bar. But no, spent most of my “holiday” explaining the culture of the the one button mouse.
Then one year, I began drinking a little too aggressively as soon as we arrived from the airport. When my father-in-law snuggled up to me asking if I would help him solve either an email or image management issue, with the hint that he would let me drive his Boxter the next day, I smirked and blurred out, “Don’t they have an Apple Store or a MicroCenter here in Columbus?” He looked shocked, but I was sufficiently inebriated to sarcastically deflect any further tech reference. And that, as they say, was the end of it.
It’s office… 99% of the users use it to write letters and other resumes. There’s nothing wrong with running old software unless you are speaking of system critical software, kernels and the like? Yeah that’s on daily updates. Office? That’s on a ‘who cares’ schedule.
Besides, with windows you definitely want to run a few cycles behind the updates given the trainwreck everything WSUS has been in the past recent years.
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Aren’t hackers like crafty though? Like they will send a WORD document with nuclear launch codes in them to make it look like YOU were the one that ordered the strike…
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Phishing attacks making use of Word documents is quite popular now. I have to remind accounting to ignore “invoices” in .doc or .docx format every so often. Thankfully our work antivirus caught that stuff every time they did open one so far.
On the modern end, it’s not always a malicious attachment directly - some of them now are just a word doc with an image saying you need to “update your office software - click here” which a bogus MS cloud-esque link to the actual malicious payload.
That’s all business side though.
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I have the link for a Single user license of Office 2019 but is it still possible to get a multi user license?
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Office 2019 should be a device based license.
User based licenses are for Office 365, typically.
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Thank you for the input @Wes. 
I had a multi-user license for Office 2010 and they sold them for Office 2016 but I am not finding one for Office 2019. The multi-user license was cheaper per unit than buying an individual license for 5 computers. The volume licensing also included Publisher which was not part of the Standard Edition single user licenses.
I still have ZERO interest in upgrading to Office 365. I know eventually it will not be an option to avoid it or its replacement if I am using an MS product but I will not be making that leap at this time under any circumstance. 
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I haven’t heard of user based 2019, and the Volume Licenses cost a fortune compared to the Retail editions right now.
OMG!!!
What a convoluted non user friendly way to have to install anything.
Download and Deploy Office 2019 Volume License
Wheels
No no no! Use the deployment tool!
https://config.office.com/deploymentsettings
This will generate the XML for you.
After that it’s easy!