Microsoft Office is killing Google Apps and anemic iWorks

Re:Microsoft Office is killing Google Apps and anemic iWorks by larrik on Thursday October 31, 2013 @03:02PM (#6649051)

LibreOffice. I can download it and install it faster than Microsoft Office, even if the Office disc is in the drive. (I use Office stuff rarely enough where that actually matters.)

Plus, LibreOffice is kind of the only option on Linux.

I don't use my Mac for anything serious outside of XCode.

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Re:Microsoft Office is killing Google Apps and anemic iWorks by jff on Thursday October 31, 2013 @04:19PM (#6649513)

LibreOffice is goddamn awful. They should just scrap the whole thing and start over, because I have never not been screwed by LibreOffice.

Make a presentation within L.O., save it to the native L.O. format, then when I open it again later, things have moved and fonts are different.

Any form the company sends me will be displayed incorrectly. Maybe fields won't be fillable, or only some of the checkboxes will check. Maybe the 2 page form will magically spread to 3 pages. Maybe it won't print at all.

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Re:Microsoft Office is killing Google Apps and anemic iWorks by Shorel on Thursday October 31, 2013 @03:15PM (#6649179)

LibreOffice and Kingsoft are the two alternatives I'm running right now.

So far I have sent .doc files to my boss without issues.

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