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Never had success with it, being 97% as good as Microsoft Office isn't the same as being Microsoft Office. Formatting issues when sharing documents, tables that

Never had success with it, being 97% as good as Microsoft Office isn't the same as being Microsoft Office. Formatting issues when sharing documents, tables that get blown out, looks kind of amateur sending those messed up documents to others unfortunately.

gerdesj 4y ago
Not my experience. I generally find MS sourced docs to be as crap as any others. I did used to teach word processing and DTP back in the day so there is that. I still have a pretty nightmareish template of styles that started off life in Word 9x and still going strong. It was for ISO9001 docs and includes three layers of table styles alone. Our ISO9000/27000 systems are all on Mediawiki these days but that template still works fine. There are some jolly exciting bugs in all software but I suspect you are not an actual LO user.
- midnitewarrior 4y ago
  I was a Libre Office user, explaining to you why I am no longer one. Clients would have problems with my documents and it made their lives hard so it became my problem. I'm a fan now of just using what works, stuck using Google for now, fortunately not needing to write serious documents with it.
  - gerdesj 4y ago
    Fair enough: that's your experience. You mentioned tables blowing up - what happened there? You can always dump docs to pdf with LO - I think it was first with things like "Convert to pdf and email".
Seanambers 4y ago
Yeah, whenever dealing with someone who uses O365 you are going to run into issues with everything from formatting to formulas to error messages. Not worth it imo.
- gricardo99 4y ago
  the funny thing is I get formatting issues and errors just going between O365 browser apps and the MS Office desktop Apps, using all latest versions.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    While I don't think that it happens any more, you used to be able to do that using the same version of desktop Office apps, but a different default printer (not in print preview, just regular editing with a different default printer set.)

gerdesj 4y ago

Not my experience. I generally find MS sourced docs to be as crap as any others. I did used to teach word processing and DTP back in the day so there is that. I still have a pretty nightmareish template of styles that started off life in Word 9x and still going strong. It was for ISO9001 docs and includes three layers of table styles alone. Our ISO9000/27000 systems are all on Mediawiki these days but that template still works fine. There are some jolly exciting bugs in all software but I suspect you are not an actual LO user.

midnitewarrior 4y ago
I was a Libre Office user, explaining to you why I am no longer one. Clients would have problems with my documents and it made their lives hard so it became my problem. I'm a fan now of just using what works, stuck using Google for now, fortunately not needing to write serious documents with it.
- gerdesj 4y ago
  Fair enough: that's your experience. You mentioned tables blowing up - what happened there? You can always dump docs to pdf with LO - I think it was first with things like "Convert to pdf and email".

Seanambers 4y ago

Yeah, whenever dealing with someone who uses O365 you are going to run into issues with everything from formatting to formulas to error messages. Not worth it imo.

gricardo99 4y ago
the funny thing is I get formatting issues and errors just going between O365 browser apps and the MS Office desktop Apps, using all latest versions.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  While I don't think that it happens any more, you used to be able to do that using the same version of desktop Office apps, but a different default printer (not in print preview, just regular editing with a different default printer set.)