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• JakobFel@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Love to see it. I haven’t used MS Office in well over a decade at this point and I have no plans to go back. LibreOffice is fantastic, suits all my needs, doesn’t pack itself with bloat and it respects my freedom and privacy. What more can I want from an office suite?

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• wreckingball4good@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love Libre so much

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• RedFrank24@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The funny thing is you can still buy Office standalone but you have to actively go looking for it and Microsoft doesn’t advertise it because 365 subscriptions make more money.

  Microsoft actively doesn’t want you buying standalone versions of software, but they still have to sell it because there’s still a market for it.

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  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s annoying, too, is that a lot of the methods that have traditionally been used for discounts (education, nonprofit, employer-based discounts) are now only applicable to the subscriptions. So if you do want to get a standalone copy and would ordinarily qualify for a discount, you can’t apply that discount to that license.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The way the write “best value” on the offer for 8.50 £/month is just brazen.

    If you use Office Home 2024 for 120£ for just 15 months or more it’s already cheaper.

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• PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I really like LibreOffice but I still need Excel. It’s a good 20 years ahead of the OSS software. It works find if your doing light work though

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  • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the problem: if you want greater adoption, you must cover the needs of accountants, because Excel knows perfectly well that they are the fixed source of income for companies.

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Makes me wonder, what exactly are you missing on LibreOffice Sheet?

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    • PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Easiest thing I can think of off the top of my head is dealing with pivot tables. UI is terrible in OpenOffice also integrations with PowerBI does not exist along with XLookup not existing last I checked

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    • Seaflea@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For me biggest missing I’ve found is web/external queries. Excel has a system to log in to an API, retrieve that data and format it before it lands on your sheet.

      Libre functionality here is lacking/non existent.

      My workaround was to write a python query, add it as a cron job, write that data to a csv then call that csv from my sheet with a timed refresh. Not something the average user can or wants to do.

      Everything else I’ve found achievable.

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• SirFasy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It doesn’t surprise me, Microsoft is enshitifying everything they have.

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used OnlyOffice thinking ‘Hey, this is a really similar alternative to MSO!’ Then bugs with slide previews and their ordering happened in the middle of presentations and even worse, memory leaks ground my laptop to a halt.

  Libre office still hasn’t crashed and the slide previews are accurate. The interface has always been a bit…unrefined even with the new tabbed layout but I can live with that.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OpenOffice 3 had the best office suite UI I can imagine.

    Dunno where all this “MS is good” comes from.

    Don’t like today’s LO UI.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I didn’t even know this existed until a few days ago. Downloaded an AppImage to try it out and was able to make a decent pdf with minimal hassle.

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    • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was really worried I’d need to use Foxit Phantom Pdf just to edit a pdf a couple of weeks ago, but libre office draw was very little hassle, with the exception of a bit of shifting of text.

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• Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this better than Apache open office?

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Open Office is not maintained anymore

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  • TheTurner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In my opinion, yes. I use it almost daily at work and I have it on my PC just in case.

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I ditched MS office for Libre long time ago, all I need it for is to open and view the occasional document anyways. For creating or editing documents I like Googles office suite better though

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• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not just the subscription they want to avoid. Office has been steadily enshitified to the point nobody I know likes using it anymore.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It started going downhill when they got rid of word art.

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  • gruhuken@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Teams has decided it won’t recognise like 50% of word docs anymore. So you can no longer edit them within teams and have to download them. If you simply read and scroll down it, the scroll glitches so bad for no reason. Ugh

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No matter who you ask, it still seems like everyone fucking hates it. I never heard a single good word about teams and still its one of the most widely used conference softwares.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dropped the Word suite and used openoffice, then switched to libreoffice. Definitely a slightly clunkier feel to it, but avoiding yet more subscription, cloud based, internet connection needed, account needed software is becoming more and more important.

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  • Mustakrakish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Been using openoffice for 15+ years, what made you switch to libreoffice?

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    • gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For the past like decade the only “updates” OpenOffice has been getting are questionable code comment changes from one dude. These changes literally do nothing, and people have suggested that the only reason he does it is to make OpenOffice seem like it’s still being developed, even though it was abandoned long ago.

      Why? IDK, but I think it’s just some stubborn asshole with an axe to grind with the LibreOffice project. OpenOffice still has stronger name recognition than LibreOffice, so a lot of people still use it.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty much what everyone said, especially better import/export of microsoft document formats - but one of the things they didn’t mention is that LibreOffice can be easily downloaded and installed from repositories. If I do a fresh linux install it’s just a command line or some other software package installer away. Super easy. I find LibreOffice runs smoother. Only downside is that sometimes it takes a while to load.

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For me it was docx. Oo couldn’t get the formatting right but libre could. This was back when docx was new and i was in school ao the teachers didn’t take off for strange lines or bad formatting.

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    • nahostdeutschland@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Libreoffice was created as a fork of OpenOffice because the development of OO became stale due to Oracle. If you’re still on OpenOffice, try LibreOffice - it’s kind of the same, but better

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oracle.

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    • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Open office isn’t getting much in the way of updates these days and is considered dormant and maintained by the Apache foundation. Libre-office is the office suite maintained by the document foundation and is where the bulk of developers moved over to.

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• turnip@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We should all get Signal as well. If you don’t have it you’ll probably be surprised how many of your contacts do.

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  • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the usa its just texting

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  • azalty@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not that much do though, but yea, people should

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  • rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nice try Hegseth

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  • Desistance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why Signal, specifically?

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    • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it increases your chances of getting accidentally added to confidential group chats

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    • turnip@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its as usable as WhatsApp while being cryptographically secure and private.

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    • hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s widely regarded as the gold standard for secure communications.

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• Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve used Libre Office, but unpopular opinion, the formatting sucks. I just pirated word, never paying for that again

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  • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sometimes proprietary software is still better than free or open-source software in several ways.

    Other times, it’s the other way around, and in some cases, they’re similar, but everyone chooses based on their convenience and needs.

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  • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve used LibreOffice for years, and formatting is a constant struggle. I end up looking online to figure out how to make a small, simple change, and it turns out the only way to do it is by messing with styles, which is way more than I want. The focus on styles is LO’s biggest drawback, IMO.

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and word is better at formatting?

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  • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LaTeX is your friend

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, you’re likely right and I lilely didn’t give it a good enough shot. I just haven’t had the smoothest experience with it. It took me twice as long to make an ugly Resume on libre than the time it took for me to make a decent one on “free” word

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  • poleslav@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yup. I used Libra in college but getting the formatting right took longer than writing my papers. If I had to pay for a subscription to office I wouldn’t, and I don’t, I just prefARR’ my office apps.

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    • wrongness1017@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I get that… dealing with hanging indentation was annoying.

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  • turnip@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re keeping it entrenched.

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    • iegod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lack of quality replacement is keeping it entrenched. LibreOffice needs to step it up.

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• FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does anyone know how to get endnote or a similar citation manager to work in Libre Office?

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  • gruhuken@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve been using Zotero since I converted a few weeks back. It has some really useful plugins, so I would recommend adding this one first- it’s like a store where you can easily browse and add them :))

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, that’s fantastic! Thank you, I will give it a try!

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  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you ever figure it out I’d love to know, too. I relied entirely on Libre Office as an undergrad but missed this feature of MS Word. I currently use a combination of Scribbr and Purdue Owl but would prefer an offline and open source solution.

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    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Zotero has plugins for LibreOffice and other word processors: https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration

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    • gruhuken@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Copying my response from above for u!

      I’ve been using Zotero since I converted a few weeks back. It has some really useful plugins, so I would recommend adding this one first- it’s like a store where you can easily browse and add them :))

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• ccguys@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been using LibreOffice for years and it is fantastic – although I have always had problems importing PowerPoints. Xcel and Word documents are fine, but PowerPoint is always a mess.

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  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    PowerPoints suffer from lack of smart objects, and in the case of using Linux, font conversion. But it’s just that we’ve got to persevere with it. 😅

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And IIIIII helped!

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nice. Maybe now Microsoft will respond by offering non-subscription options inventing a new proprietary industry-standard file format so their bloated ransomware remains mandatory.

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  • cactopuses@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fortunately platforms like docs are providing sufficient competition that I don’t think they’d be able to lock it down as effectively as they once could.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’ll have to settle for “warning” the user if they detect a file that was made by libreoffice.

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• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  theregister.com/…/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/

  Native Realtime collaboration on documents and spreadsheets is the last feature holding us back from switching in business environments.

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  • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Collabora office

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• takis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I must be one of them. In the last couple of weeks I’m transitioning my apps and services to open source and EU based. I switched from Windows to CachyOS, switched my emails, switched browser, degoogled my phone, deleted FB and X and many more.

  It feels so refreshing and free.

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good job! Welcome to Beltalowda :) Next up: join the OPA!

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    • takis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol what?

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  • boreengreen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is allot of stuff in a short time. Nice!

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• BagOfHeavyStones@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it the best free option? It works fairly well although I can still kill it sometimes.

  I know there’s a few other alternatives like OnlyOffice, wps office etc but these might be freemium.

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• scotmartin@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have to say I’m one of them. Cancelled my office subscription and an trying to avoid making the same mistake again. It was convenient though.

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• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it finally the year of foss? I love LibreOffice and started using it years back for personal use not wanting to bother with buying another Microsoft Office version once the one I had stopped getting security updates.

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• MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m glad to see foss Software taking off. In the past, we had to be a tech enthusiast to Realize it with an option. Now it’s pretty well known.

  The large tech companies didn’t get greedy and try to be so gross with privacy settings. People wouldn’t make the move. They only have themselves to blame.

  If you’re into music, there’s a great open source synthesizer.

  surge-synthesizer.github.io

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For me it was about freedom, and not being locked into the Microsoft sphere.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah desktop apps era is back baby. Fuck you cloud.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good. Finally. It’s about time.

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• Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m afraid to find out how many people are still downloading OpenOffice, thinking it’s the same software they heard about back in 2010.

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