• kadu@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I love LibreOffice. Often when it’s mentioned I’ve seen people with the opposite sentiment, but it never caused me any trouble and I really enjoy the small tabs option for the interface.

    Microsoft Office has once decided to take my locally created file, shove it somewhere in OneDrive, then revert it to the state it was 24 hours prior - I couldn’t recover the newer version. Guess which software never deleted my files? LibreOffice.

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      8 months ago

      I have had the exact same experience with Office 365. It overwrote my local copy with an older version from cloud. My finished version was nowhere to be found. Took me half the night to create the doc again.

      I always save MS docs under multiple file names now to defend against this. It is a hassle though. I also use LibreOffice for personal stuff, largely for this reason.

  • janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Libre office or open office, what do you guys think? I’ve used both from time to time.

    • Kabe@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      OnlyOffice is the main alternative to Libre these days.

      I personally prefer it because offers better compatibility with the Microsoft 365 documents I need for work.

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        8 months ago

        It saddens me that the best to have compatibility is to never touch MS Office. They are the largest player by far. Subtly fucking up or deviating from open document standards will always be seen as “well, the issue is non MS office”.