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I have Windows in my environment, and I still just use LibreOffice. Now, I’m not into huge, complex excell spreadsheets, but LibreOffice ticks all my boxes. It has a Windows app, and comes as a flatpak, snap, appimage, there’s even a portable edition as well.

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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah. I use LibreOffice for everything but my professional writing. I can’t use it for that. It simply doesn’t play nice in a manner I can rely on for professional collaboration when everyone else is using either native microsoft office or office on apple.

If I lived in a world where everyone was on libreoffice, it probably would be fine. And I don’t blame LO for the issue, I think MS specifically makes their product hard to cooperate with. But that doesn’t resolve the issue of passing drafts back and forth with collaborators.

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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  It simply doesn’t play nice in a manner I can rely on for professional collaboration when everyone else is using either native microsoft office or office on apple.
  
  If you don’t mind unpacking that for my own edification, what exactly does it do or don’t do? Does it not decode the data properly/same?
  
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  - TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Passing versions back and forth with comments and track changes. Basic details around formatting. Again, I don’t blame LO, I blame MS, but its simply more straightfoward to work in native office.
    
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    irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Could you manage a windows VM for Office?
    
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