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• simple@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is also only office which has better compatibility with MSOffice file types

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  • mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This here.

    I wish Only Office got as much fanfare as LibreOffice. The UI is much closer to Microsoft Office and it tends to have better compatibility.

    I have both installed though and use them both lol.

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    • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OnlyOffice is Russian-owned, via a holding company in Singapore. When Russia invaded Ukraine and sanctions threatened the business, they obfuscated this, but it’s still Lev Bannov’s product.

      The importance you attach to this is up to you, but they try quite hard to hide it.

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      • Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Mm knowing that makes me never want to go anywhere near OnlyOffice now, oof.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      LibreOffice has a ribbon UI too!

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      • mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That it does :)

        LibreOffice is awesome too. No complaints really.

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      • Nyanix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        TIL! Thank you, kind stranger!

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    • fluckx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Libreoffice their latest blogpost is from the 20th of August 2025. There have been a few releases in the past few months as well.

      Openoffice their latest ( Apache Openoffice 4.1.15 ) was released almost 2 years ago ( December 2023 ).

      Libreoffice seems like a more recent, better supported tool over Openoffice which hasn’t seen any updates since 2023 according to their own website.

      I’m on my phone, so I didn’t search extensively. But I think that also plays a role in why there’s a much larger fanbase for libreoffice rather than Openoffice.

      I’ve no recent experience with either so I can’t comment on how well either works.

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      • mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I believe Open Office and Only Office are different products.

        Only Office had a major release in June, 2025.

        And you are correct that Open Office last update was back in December 2023.

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Downside is ties to Russia and performance is really bad, as I understand it’s an Electron web app, not a native application. It also won’t save to network shares properly and will lose your file if you do.

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  • petrjanda@gonzo.markets ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t ever save your files directly on a samba share with only office. Lost hours of work twice . It doesn’t keep recovery files.

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• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I second this. There’s a little bit of a learning curve on some of the functionality, but it’s not bad at all. And most of the functionality is very easy to find. I moved over to Libre Office several years ago and it’s been great.

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tbf it was simplier back when people first used it

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      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        When people were first using it they were coming from DOS or old machines. Many were using a mouse for the first time. It wasn’t simpler to them.

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    • AntY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is very true. I hadn’t used Microsoft Office since 2007 and at my new workplace everyone’s using it. It’s really hard and I don’t find anything. Yesterday I was working with tables but I gave up and had IT install libreoffice instead.

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  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can now enable a tabbed interface similar to Microsoft Office

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