I’ve been using it for over a decade now and have only rarely come across broken documents due to proprietary features. If you’re making docs for yourself, I’d say it’s pretty much a 100% replacement. Things can get a bit more fucky if you’re having exchanges where you edit with Libre and someone else edits with Word. But other than that, they’re pretty darn close.
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ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoThanks, going to try out LibreOffice. Does it has same (or similar) functions as Word itself?
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
_cnt0@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It doesn’t make it flawless (at all), but installing the microsoft fonts helps. Most distros have a package or helper tool for that.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Pretty much. It was OpenOffice years ago, but then Oracle got involved and so all the devs left and put a new name on it.
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
No. That’s the point. LibreOffice does not send your data to Microsoft.
LibreOffice is what Microsoft Office WAS without the bugs. If Word and Excel worked for you before the cloud, Libre is golden.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s designed to be very similar. If you are already familiar with Word, you should feel right at home.
innermachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not exactly s power user in Microsoft office, but I found using libre office to be very similar. Never had issues using it for school back in the day and I’m sure it’s better now.
Crismus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My only problem is how Libre Office handles their style system. It’s forced use for things like Footers, and very hard to manipulate and turn off unlike Word.
My own way to bypass it was to replace a new document text into an old converted word text that had the correct footer pages from Word.
I really hate page and Style guides because they always want to propagate everything through entire documents, instead of only changing things on a page by page basis. Adding things to previous pages when you change something isn’t helpful.