Comment on What's the best free version of word?

hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also if you’re using windows and avoiding acrobat try Sumatra for reading pdfs. FOSS is the way. Libre draw also does document signing for pdfs

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• LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thanks mate! I’ve downloaded it but I’m really struggling with the layout any tips? it’s so different looking to word

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can switch to the “Tabbed” interface for something more similar MS Office: …libreoffice.org/…/WG2521-UserInterfaceVariants.h…

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    • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Thanks I tried that yesterday but I don’t get given those options on libre

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      • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Hmm, that’s weird. Are you on a semi-recent version of LibreOffice? I believe, it got shipped with version 6.0.

        And just to be sure, you are checking here, right?:

        Menu Bar → View → User Interface…

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I find it’s exactly identical to MSWord, but from the mso97 days before the Ribbon bollocks. I used o97 Word because it was like win3.1 Word … word-perfect? It’s been a while.

    But, TL/DR, LOWord is like Classic MSOffice from when it didn’t suck. This will not help you adjust, but hopefully the knowledge that you’re going back to a better era of UX could help blunt the pain.

    Go carefully, and have your favourite vice handy to goose the positive reinforcement loop.

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    • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks mate

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