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It's for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.

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[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

i don't want to start a war but sorry, office is the defacto when it comes to office work and libreoffice still have many problems with formatting and editing existing .docx files (things seem better when it comes to .xlsx and .pptx) not to mention that your documents might not look similar on both due to missing proprietary fonts.

its a good software in itself its just that its compatibility with office is a little dodgy

[–] suzune@ani.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's because it's not the native format. How does MS Office show/edit ODT documents? Does it work better?

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Idk i have never worked with a complicated odt document Although, I would expect some problems because of fonts

Come to think of it. I tried that a couple months ago and The results weren't so great.( I told word to specifically save my docx document in ODT format)

[–] suzune@ani.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why ODT is complicated. It's a zipfile with inspectible data. The standard document is also not as vendor-specific as MS OOXML which is thousands of pages that everybody gave up upon.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

I think they meant complicated in the sense of having a complex document with formatting and so on (like a scientific paper)

Not that the file format itself is complex.