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Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Reverendender@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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It's for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.

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[-] suzune@ani.social 5 points 6 months ago

It's because it's not the native format. How does MS Office show/edit ODT documents? Does it work better?

[-] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago

Idk i have never worked with a complicated odt document Although, I would expect some problems because of fonts

Come to think of it. I tried that a couple months ago and The results weren't so great.( I told word to specifically save my docx document in ODT format)

[-] suzune@ani.social 2 points 6 months ago

I don't understand why ODT is complicated. It's a zipfile with inspectible data. The standard document is also not as vendor-specific as MS OOXML which is thousands of pages that everybody gave up upon.

[-] B0rax@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago

I think they meant complicated in the sense of having a complex document with formatting and so on (like a scientific paper)

Not that the file format itself is complex.

[-] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

I meant the document (with a lot of pictures, tables, graphs, using a lot of different fonts, etc.) Not the file format.

[-] suzune@ani.social 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I still don't really know what you mean. How a document looks like depends on you. I've got very many fonts available, much more than average Microsoft Office user has. And it's easier to use LibreOffice from my point of view, because it emphasizes structure. It looks much cleaner by default than MS Word. The only thing MS Word is better in is typesetting. LibreOffice simply fails to place letters properly.

Documents produced by office suites are not really good for publications. They are very annoying to handle, no matter if it's MS Office or Libre. The cheapest option to have something professional is LaTeX.