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Re: [trinity-users] Re: installing OpenOffice & "command-line is my friend"

From: Felmon Davis <davisf@...>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 02:56:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, deloptes wrote:

>
> [...]
>
> The main reason to try LibreOffice was that it would promise to be 
> able to edit MS word documents - well not really.

> So since I prefer stability over functionality, I switched over to
> OpenOffice and never had an issue with it. It might be that I try
> LibreOffice once again though, but I have limited time and I found out that
> you can't really work on MS document with those open source tools, so the
> companies I work for offer office365 where the stupid thing is integrated
> or provide a computer or virtual machine where I can work if needed.

I'll only say I have had very few problems with MS documents but a 
couple are show-stoppers. the main one I can recall is handling of 
tables but there were a few others.

and I too prefer stability over functionality, assuming sufficient 
degrees of the latter.

f.

-- 
Felmon Davis