Comment on Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word
mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 weeks agoBetter yet, Libre Office. Fully compatible with MS formats plus ODF (which Microsoft now supports too btw)
Comment on Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word
mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 weeks agoBetter yet, Libre Office. Fully compatible with MS formats plus ODF (which Microsoft now supports too btw)
sj_zero 2 weeks ago
To be fair, and this is coming to someone who is fully sold on LibreOffice and hosts Collabera, the two word processors can open each other's documents, but cannot produce identical outputs for the same files.
For 99.99% of things switching between the two is going to be just fine, but every once in awhile that 0.01% will really bite you, especially if it is something important such as equations which I have seen first hand don't properly migrate to LibreOffice.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I can understand the point that Word is needed for producing some borked, glitched, eldritch formatting that 99% of people expect as correct because Office is that much widespread and has trained people to be Wrong on the Internet; and in that case yeah I would still recommend running a(n older version of!) Office just so that you can process (and test) that you are producing what is expected in the exchange.
It’s curious actually. While LO compatibility has improved, I don’t think anything close to an umbrella “Imitate Word [$VERSION] Breakages” option has ever been added or even considered for LO? How about the other Word imitators? Can eg.: WPS or Calligra replicate Microslop idosyncracies? Because if so, running those would be better than running Office on a remote.