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While anecdotal, I only know one person that still uses Microsoft office, and that is just for Excel. Everyone else is libre office or Google docs. I grew up o

While anecdotal, I only know one person that still uses Microsoft office, and that is just for Excel. Everyone else is libre office or Google docs. I grew up on office but once they introduced that stupid ribbon menu I ditched it. Apparently I was not the only one.

goalieca 8y ago
The ribbon menu is quite excellent and makes office usable again. I know so many people that use office, it's also the standard suite in my workplace and probably most others that aren't startups. I much prefer latex and git for doing editing but word is quite functional.
- hermitdev 8y ago
  The ribbon menu introduces problematic issues in newer versions of Office for add-ins. Add-ins can't effectively update controls for non-active windows via the COM interface. For instance, if you have a text-box within an add-in Ribbon menu, a non-active window will not display the appropriate text for that window. Well, to be honest - it's not exactly a Ribbon issue. It's an issue with Ribbon moving to an SDI interface with Office 2010. Office 2007 worked fine, 2010 and later bomb with the aforementioned issue (at least as far as Office 2013 - last I worked on Office Add-ins).
kinsomo 8y ago
> While anecdotal, I only know one person that still uses Microsoft office, and that is just for Excel. Everyone else is libre office or Google docs. I grew up on office but once they introduced that stupid ribbon menu I ditched it. Apparently I was not the only one. That's highly anecdotal. It's probably not much of an overstatement to say that a large fraction of the economy literally runs on Excel notebooks.
- metalliqaz 8y ago
  work at large company. can confirm.
omnibrain 8y ago
Also anecdotal: The ribbon menu made me switch back to MS Office (and thus Windows) for private use.
philliphaydon 8y ago
I recently made the switch to Budgie Ubuntu as my main desktop, god I hate libre, almost as much as I hate Google docs. Office 365 is much better. I’m forced to use Google docs at work :(
vxNsr 8y ago
Sounds like: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1399476 http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1399476 It's partially why there's 1001 food delivery apps meanwhile EHR/EMR software is still a joke.

goalieca 8y ago

The ribbon menu is quite excellent and makes office usable again. I know so many people that use office, it's also the standard suite in my workplace and probably most others that aren't startups. I much prefer latex and git for doing editing but word is quite functional.

hermitdev 8y ago
The ribbon menu introduces problematic issues in newer versions of Office for add-ins. Add-ins can't effectively update controls for non-active windows via the COM interface. For instance, if you have a text-box within an add-in Ribbon menu, a non-active window will not display the appropriate text for that window. Well, to be honest - it's not exactly a Ribbon issue. It's an issue with Ribbon moving to an SDI interface with Office 2010. Office 2007 worked fine, 2010 and later bomb with the aforementioned issue (at least as far as Office 2013 - last I worked on Office Add-ins).

kinsomo 8y ago

> While anecdotal, I only know one person that still uses Microsoft office, and that is just for Excel. Everyone else is libre office or Google docs. I grew up on office but once they introduced that stupid ribbon menu I ditched it. Apparently I was not the only one. That's highly anecdotal. It's probably not much of an overstatement to say that a large fraction of the economy literally runs on Excel notebooks.

metalliqaz 8y ago
work at large company. can confirm.

omnibrain 8y ago

Also anecdotal: The ribbon menu made me switch back to MS Office (and thus Windows) for private use.

philliphaydon 8y ago

I recently made the switch to Budgie Ubuntu as my main desktop, god I hate libre, almost as much as I hate Google docs. Office 365 is much better. I’m forced to use Google docs at work :(

vxNsr 8y ago

Sounds like: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1399476 http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1399476 It's partially why there's 1001 food delivery apps meanwhile EHR/EMR software is still a joke.