• 🇨🇦 tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I was astonished to find the other day that LibreOffice has no problem opening ClarisWorks files. That is an ancient Mac format that even Apple’s Pages has long since abandoned.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
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      2 years ago

      I have had the exact same experience with Office 365. It overwrote my local copy with an older version from cloud. My finished version was nowhere to be found. Took me half the night to create the doc again.

      I always save MS docs under multiple file names now to defend against this. It is a hassle though. I also use LibreOffice for personal stuff, largely for this reason.

  • janNatan@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Libre office or open office, what do you guys think? I’ve used both from time to time.

    • Kabe@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      OnlyOffice is the main alternative to Libre these days.

      I personally prefer it because offers better compatibility with the Microsoft 365 documents I need for work.

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        2 years ago

        It saddens me that the best to have compatibility is to never touch MS Office. They are the largest player by far. Subtly fucking up or deviating from open document standards will always be seen as “well, the issue is non MS office”.