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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I find Softmaker FreeOffice easier to use, especially if you want a similar UI to MS office, german company but not opensource. Now, I only use it occasionally, I don't know which one is better for heavy users, they have a paid version too.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm never quite sure if a document will translate 100% to Word or Excel, but otherwise I've been very happy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Same. I've had some professional frustrations when spreadsheets don't carry over formatting correctly and dealing with macros is a pain, but it's great to start with or if you aren't collaborating.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

LO is good software.

It replaced MSOffice Word for me (and I had been using Word since the early 90s). It also has a few extensions one may want to consider adding. Stuff like extra dictionaries for example, or better (than the default provided) ePub/HTML export tools.

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How does it stack to Open Office? Got that years ago & it's been treating me well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

OpenOffice is not recommended, I hope you mean OnlyOffice, they get confused sometimes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nope! I do believe it's OpenOffice, an older version, idk I downloaded a popular FOSS version a few years back. Pretty insane that Microsoft actually thinks people should pay a subscription to rent this stuff, lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

OpenOffice is basically dead. Libreoffice is a branch of it that gets regularly updated.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Now if they could do the same for Gimp. What a UX mess.

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