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Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.

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[–] liv@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Libre Office is cool.

If you work with other people's really complex word documents where formatting is important, you kind of do have to use MS word because Libre Office still does not have 100% compatibility (probably Microsoft's fault).

I'm still a 360 holdout though. I hate the subscription model at the best of times and with Microsoft it just seems egregious.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes. I use to have to do patent work in MSO. The other issue is presentations. If you just cannot go with a PDF or use your own laptop you kind of have to use MSO since it is often the only program available.

[–] liv@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

True. Powerpoint is de rigeur in some contexts.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

LibreOffice does have a dark theme now.