Anyone use LibreOffice much? Is it just me or is it shocking?

[d000hg]

I've used Libre Office for years. It is different from Microsoft (obviously) and does take a bit of getting used to but once you do get used to it, it is surprisingly powerful. You can't directly compare with Microsoft because they are different packages with different ways of doing things. Clearly MO is miles more powerful and smooth and more encompassing and I wouldn't use it in a work environment, but for personal stuff and for the charity that I run, it is perfect.

That's what I was expecting - rough edges but solid functionality. But not being able to simply paste images into a document without it all going wrong seems like more than flaky UI.

[kloos]

I've used Libre Office for years. It is different from Microsoft (obviously) and does take a bit of getting used to but once you do get used to it, it is surprisingly powerful. You can't directly compare with Microsoft because they are different packages with different ways of doing things. Clearly MO is miles more powerful and smooth and more encompassing and I wouldn't use it in a work environment, but for personal stuff and for the charity that I run, it is perfect.

[d000hg]

MS Action Pack is £350 a year. You get 5 x licenses of O365 E3, and a bunch of server software and Windows licenses.
Also £75 a month Azure credits.
No brainer to my mind.

To mine too, £350 a year for Office is lunacy. I had MAPS about 10 years ago (£199 I think?) to get free Visual Studio and I still have the folder with dozens of discs in I never used for products I haven't even heard of in some cases!
These days VS is free and my current client will absolutely not allow their stuff on any machine that isn't theirs.

If I got back into developing on my own kit MAPS might make sense but unless I actually want to run my own business servers, I can't see it. A basic home 365 sub would do us... but I probably won't need it for another 3 months

[courtg9000]

I have it installed as a backup but I don't think I have used it in at least over a year.

[gixxer2021]

I’m on Linux so use it and agree it’s a clunky nightmare! I’ve had it corrupt files when working with office files directly, so always convert to their own format then export back if I’m mailing out. If I was on windows I’d probably pay for office tbh.

[ladymuck]

MS Action Pack is £350 a year. You get 5 x licenses of O365 E3, and a bunch of server software and Windows licenses.
Also £75 a month Azure credits.
No brainer to my mind.

+1 for the Action Pack

I've had it for a good decade, probably longer. You also get Office 2019 plus Project and Visio professional.

[Lance]

I probably should just fork out for Office.

MS Action Pack is £350 a year. You get 5 x licenses of O365 E3, and a bunch of server software and Windows licenses.
Also £75 a month Azure credits.
No brainer to my mind.

[d000hg]

LibreOffice is a dog, but it can be made to work - it just needs a little bit more effort/time than the MS and Apple equivalents.

I used it years back and have always quite liked it but this just seemed ridiculous not to be able to handle such a basic use case. I know it's a really hard thing to do well - Word sucked at it for years - but after this long I just figured it surely would do all the normal things without any issues. The amount of work that's gone into it must be incredible.

I probably should just fork out for Office.

[Paralytic]

No idea what that means. Seems like silly acronyms might be best reserved for the non-professional sections of CUK?

LibreOffice is a dog, but it can be made to work - it just needs a little bit more effort/time than the MS and Apple equivalents.

[d000hg]

PEBUAK?

No idea what that means. Seems like silly acronyms might be best reserved for the non-professional sections of CUK?