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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Thanks, going to try out LibreOffice. Does it has same (or similar) functions as Word itself?

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's designed to be very similar. If you are already familiar with Word, you should feel right at home.

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[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm not exactly s power user in Microsoft office, but I found using libre office to be very similar. Never had issues using it for school back in the day and I'm sure it's better now.

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[–] Crismus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My only problem is how Libre Office handles their style system. It's forced use for things like Footers, and very hard to manipulate and turn off unlike Word.

My own way to bypass it was to replace a new document text into an old converted word text that had the correct footer pages from Word.

I really hate page and Style guides because they always want to propagate everything through entire documents, instead of only changing things on a page by page basis. Adding things to previous pages when you change something isn't helpful.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I’ve been using it for over a decade now and have only rarely come across broken documents due to proprietary features. If you’re making docs for yourself, I’d say it’s pretty much a 100% replacement. Things can get a bit more fucky if you’re having exchanges where you edit with Libre and someone else edits with Word. But other than that, they’re pretty darn close.

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[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

It doesn't make it flawless (at all), but installing the microsoft fonts helps. Most distros have a package or helper tool for that.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty much. It was OpenOffice years ago, but then Oracle got involved and so all the devs left and put a new name on it.

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[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

No. That's the point. LibreOffice does not send your data to Microsoft.

LibreOffice is what Microsoft Office WAS without the bugs. If Word and Excel worked for you before the cloud, Libre is golden.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm 99% of the way on LibreOffice. Gave it a solid go, but the main thing I use in excel is too cumbersome in Libre. I think it's a great option for many people though.

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[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a clueless individual, how are they assisting genocide?

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

For today, you can call me Jeeves. To learn more, a quick search for "microsoft genocide" or "microsoft gaza" will give you the answers.

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[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Wow thanks for the resources! I appreciate you dropping links I had no idea this was going on. Of course Google and Amazon are involved too, could have figured as much. Appears the only way do avoid the military industrial complex is to cease using anything provided from our oligarch overlords. What an age we live in.

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Working hand in hand with the Israeli government in mass surveillance and (likely) AI-generated targeting data.

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[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Another user just linked some resources. Incredible the bullshit going on these days. So much going on it's hard for me to keep up with it all but I'm glad to be enlightened.