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My mother-in-law couldn't get her old Word docs to format correctly on her new laptop (Win11 + MS Office365). Rather than fiddle around trying various settings
by relwin 2y ago
My mother-in-law couldn't get her old Word docs to format correctly on her new laptop (Win11 + MS Office365). Rather than fiddle around trying various settings I installed LibreOffice and with it her docs rendered correctly. Made her happy. Libre Writer reminds me of Word2000, which means I don't waste time learning new ways to perform mundane writing tasks.
- pinoy420 2y agoWhen I read that $person has installed $opensource_thing for $tech_illiterate_relative I always imagine the “anon uses gimp” greentext.
- dailykoder 2y agoMy mom uses LibreOffice, too. Granted, she doesn't do anything special. Just a few docs for housekeeping. I even forgot about the fact that she is using it. Just recently noticed it again. I would assume she would have had WAY more problems if she would have to use some stupid microsoft account to be able to use word.
- iforgotpassword 2y agoMy parents evolve backwards when it comes to computer literacy. It seems they especially unlearn all the windows 8+ changes, since a lot of UI philosophy stayed unchanged from 95 to the end of the XP era, so that appears to be burned into their brains forever. Word 2000/XP. They don't really write any documents anymore, but LO might actually be more what they expect today than modern MSO.
- xaldir 2y agoIronically, at $work we do have more success opening old files (pre-2000) with LibreOffice than MsOffice, so yeah.