Re: 5 Stand-Out LibreOffice Features That Make It My Go-To Office Suite

On 2024-10-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-10-16 à 07 h 33, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-10-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-10-15 à 20 h 44, Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :

  From <https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/5-stand-out-libreoffice-features-that-make-it-my-go-to-office-suite/>:
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Customizable GUI:
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      For example, when writing a novel, I want the sidebar always
      readily available because I need quick access to formatting
      options. If I'm working on a more traditional document, I might go
      with the tabbed UI. For spreadsheets, I want the simplest UI that
      I can use, such as the contextual single UI.
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      LibreOffice makes this possible, with the ability to switch
      between a standard toolbar, tabbed, single toolbar, sidebar,
      tabbed compact, groupedbar compact, and contextual single. You can
      even make changes to different tools, which allows you to have one
      UI for Writer, one for Calc, and one for Presents.
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Customizable styles:
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      What I like about this feature is that it allows me to get very
      granular with the styles, even to the point where I can define
      what style comes next, how drop caps are handled, transparency,
      borders, indents & spacing, text flow, font, position, highlights,
      much more.
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No AI:
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      (what more needs to be said?)
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Microsoft Office compatibility:
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      For a while, I was writing everything in Google Docs; that is,
      until one of my editors complained of incompatibility issues (even
      when exporting to the .docx format with Docs). Once I switched
      from Google Docs to LibreOffice (for my fiction writing), those
      issues all went away.
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Document export:
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      LibreOffice document export allows you to export your Writer
      documents to XHTML, PDF, EPUB, MediaWiki, Writer Indexing Export
      XML, JPEG, Writer Layout XML, PNG, and WEBP. You can also save as
      ODF, ODF Template, Flat XML, Unified Office Format, Word 2010-365,
      Word 2007, Word 2007 Template, Word 2003 XML, Rich Text, Word
      97-2003, and other types. If there's a format you need, more than
      likely LibreOffice can export it.
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      ...
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      I can also ask what version of MS Office a collaborator is using
      and make sure to export it to the most compatible version.
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Because, you know, even Microsoft Office cannot manage 100%
compatibility with Microsoft Office ...

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I have a license to Microsoft Office, but I'll use LibreOffice simply
because it doesn't push a closed standard on me. I have never believed
in proprietary formats.

 
LibreOffice is getting continually better. At least that's my opinion. I
don't have a clue about M$ Office. I haven't used it in years. (Don't have
to, now that I'm retired.)

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I've said it before, but I just prefer the LibreOffice interface. It
might be old, but things are exactly where you expect them to be unlike
Microsoft Office. I've been in a situation where I had to change the
formatting of a document while in class to make it more readable for the
kids. With LibreOffice, I can easily find the feature I'm looking for
and change it for them within a second, but with Microsoft Office I'm
usually left navigating for a minute. Of course, I'm not an expert with
either suite, so that has to be factored in, but Libre seems more
intuitive to me.

I think, sometimes, when you're selling a product (rather than releasing it
as open source) there's pressure to change SOMETHING because it has to be
different in order to separate it from the earlier version. The interface
should stay the same — what they should do is just keep fixing the software
and only add features people really want. That's the way to NOT get
bloatware.

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