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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by AlmostAnyone on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:44AM (#33316524)
A lot of them. Have you tried to fill out forms (for stuff like homeowner taxes, personal income tax, etc) prepared by the government office in MS Word using LibreOffice Writer? It doesn't work at all, and if it at least opens, the document as well as output is completely fucked.

Anything a tiny bit smarter than your usual document (with scripts and/or macros) won't work too.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by hunter-gatherer on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:01PM (#33318450)
I mean, in the past 3 years I've sold a home, rented a place, and bought a home, and filled out my taxes and other forms from .gov websites and haven't had an issue to be honest.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by AlmostAnyone on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:53PM (#33321686)
Thank the US government, they're pretty good with the digital things. The EU governments are much worse with computers - Word documents and Excel tables that don't work in LibreOffice are usual here.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by pvaldes on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:52PM (#33324273)
Yep. I fixed it with Latex
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by AlmostAnyone on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:47AM (#33327065)
How did you get VBA working in Latex?
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