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For the near computer illiterate, the tiny subset of Word they use can be easily replaced by Libre Office or Google Spreadsheets.
by the_af 5y ago
For the near computer illiterate, the tiny subset of Word they use can be easily replaced by Libre Office or Google Spreadsheets.
- oefrha 5y agoExcept of course people send .doc/.docx around and expect .doc/.docx to be sent around. Ask the average person to do some word processing and send the result to you, the chance of receiving something else is close to zero. Speaking from experience dealing with near computer illiterates, including my mom. Of course you can argue that it’s easy to learn to export to .doc/.docx.
- aembleton 5y agoOr you can share your Google doc around and let them edit it without creating new files.
- r_hoods_ghost 5y agoProblem with that is that either they have to have a Google account that they are willing to share with you or you have to make it so that anyone with the link can edit the doc, which is a big no no usually.
- timeon 5y ago> Ask the average person to do some word processing and send the result to you, the chance of receiving something else is close to zero. Sometimes even if you just ask for photo.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoThis is just not true. It’s a big change. LibreOffice has a lot of problems. It will never be anything close to Word.
- the_af 5y agoIt's my impression that for a near illiterate user, they won't be able to notice the differences unless they cannot open the document at all. Those differences crop up once you know enough Word features to notice the difference. Near illiterate users don't use almost any features of Word beyond the bare basics. As an aside, before we moved entirely to Google docs in my job, I used LibreOffice to edit Word documents without major problems.