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Need to make some business forms for billing. Something with line and columns for items and costs. I see a number of free software to make templates but I don't know how safe they are. Lost the forms I had in my latest computer debacle so need to make more. Any recommendations?
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Google spreadsheets
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LIke Krom said, Google Docs or any spreadsheet software is all you need. If using the SUM functions in a spreadsheet are too much work, you can just use any word processing program to draw a 2 or three column table and do the math manually.
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like I said, I can find all sorts of software my bigger concern was "I see a number of free software to make templates but I don't know how safe they are
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Google docs is a thing you get on the internet from your google/gmail account for free. It isn't even installed on your computer and is totally safe.
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Thanks for the good advice, appreciate it
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woodchip wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:21 pm... I don't know how safe they are...
Depends on what you mean by safety, but the best place to start is the open source community. A good place to find software is AlternativeTo. None of the free alternatives are vetted by security professionals, but it's a community ranked site so assuming the site owners haven't sold out, the choices are usually pretty good. For instance, all the top picks for spreadsheets are super common and safe:

https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-excel/
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