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Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

i don't want to start a war but sorry, office is the defacto when it comes to office work and libreoffice still have many problems with formatting and editing existing .docx files (things seem better when it comes to .xlsx and .pptx) not to mention that your documents might not look similar on both due to missing proprietary fonts.

its a good software in itself its just that its compatibility with office is a little dodgy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's because it's not the native format. How does MS Office show/edit ODT documents? Does it work better?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Idk i have never worked with a complicated odt document Although, I would expect some problems because of fonts

Come to think of it. I tried that a couple months ago and The results weren't so great.( I told word to specifically save my docx document in ODT format)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why ODT is complicated. It's a zipfile with inspectible data. The standard document is also not as vendor-specific as MS OOXML which is thousands of pages that everybody gave up upon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I think they meant complicated in the sense of having a complex document with formatting and so on (like a scientific paper)

Not that the file format itself is complex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I meant the document (with a lot of pictures, tables, graphs, using a lot of different fonts, etc.) Not the file format.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I still don't really know what you mean. How a document looks like depends on you. I've got very many fonts available, much more than average Microsoft Office user has. And it's easier to use LibreOffice from my point of view, because it emphasizes structure. It looks much cleaner by default than MS Word. The only thing MS Word is better in is typesetting. LibreOffice simply fails to place letters properly.

Documents produced by office suites are not really good for publications. They are very annoying to handle, no matter if it's MS Office or Libre. The cheapest option to have something professional is LaTeX.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'd argue that no one gives a shit what the docx looks like as long as it looks good as a PDF or presentation slide.

And for that I use whatever is at hand, which mostly consists of Gsuite shit at work. Sometimes O365 for school (because NA is stupid) or work. At home it's ~~Libre~~ still Gsuite...