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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly, its gotta be the MS Office suite.

Yes if you're just writing your own simple documents libreoffice/OpenOffice will work, but if you have to do anything more complex than a single page spreadsheet, text-on-white presentations, or 3 page MLA book reports.... or, even worse, have to interact with documents and spreadsheets created by basically any other person on the planet, I've just never had a good consistent experience with any of the free options.

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Disagree. Libreoffice is pretty capable for most use cases nowadays.

Compatibility is also pretty good with Microsoft formats despite Microsoft‘s best efforts.

OpenOffice is dead.

[–] masterairmagic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate Office365 with passion. It's extremely unproductive and alternatives like Quip are much better.

[–] zer0@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

If you have to interact with documents created by others it would be better to use open formats not proprietary shit designed to be not cross compatible