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Re:Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with ... by zelphirkalt on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:42AM (#27747070)
In some areas MS Office is still far behind LO. Especially when it comes to not like a noob styling everything directly via bold, italic, font size and so on buttons, but actually making things a style, and keeping the document free from direct styling.

Maybe LO is a touch more difficult to use, but in functionality, I would choose it every time over MS Office. Especially the Office 365 versions suck. They are sooo buggy. One example: Move your selected cell in online MS Excel quickly using 2 arrow keys, like down + right or up + right. Sometimes it will simply delete cell content. wtf.

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Re:Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with ... by liotier on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:02AM (#27747264)
> In some areas MS Office is still far behind LO. Especially when it comes to not like a noob styling everything directly via bold, italic, font size and so on buttons, but actually making things a style, and keeping the document free from direct styling

With Libreoffice lacking a proper Outline Mode (no, the Navigator doesn't count), I find style-powered document structuring difficult to do in Libreoffice whereas I pretty much live in Microsoft Word's Outline Mode.

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Re:Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with ... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:17AM (#27747433)
So it doesn't duplicate something you've spent many hours mastering.

That's what most of the complaints I see about LibreOffice (and many other free software alternatives) end up being, and while I understand why that makes it difficult to switch that's not really a fault of LibreOffice.

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Re:Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with ... by yosamino on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:09AM (#27748011)
I would agree for some features, but for this specific feature I have to share this criticism. I work with Libreoffice almost exclusively (and I really like most of it), but the "Navigator" really isn't very good, it doesn't help me navigate my documents or style well - so much so that I usually avoid using it in the first place.
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