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

[PerfectStorm]

You can buy a "we'll add you to our volume license for £15" Office packages off eBay. Deemed legal by the EU, much as MS didn't like it.

[_V_]

Nope, this was at a large successful insurance company but I know what you're talking about and they're going back to opensource:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-...-source-again/

It seems more and more local authorities in Europe are going this direction (sadly in German, might be an English version available):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-S..._Einrichtungen

The UK quite haven't got there yet:

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...t-office-suite

Great that there is a move to Open Source OS. Makes so much sense for so many reasons.

[darmstadt]

You work for a German council I presume?

Nope, this was at a large successful insurance company but I know what you're talking about and they're going back to opensource:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-...-source-again/

It seems more and more local authorities in Europe are going this direction (sadly in German, might be an English version available):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-S..._Einrichtungen

The UK quite haven't got there yet:

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...t-office-suite

[d000hg]

You work for a German council I presume?

I thought they paid a fortune to migrate away from MS, then a while later paid a fortune to go MS again as it wasn't working, then recently decided to quit MS a second time?

[_V_]

Just you. I consult at a company where they have ~10,000 desktop users with only LibreOffice (because the desktop is Ubuntu) and no problems at all. Maybe they learnt how to use it properly....I know I had to, to work out that it was different to MO but does the job required....

You work for a German council I presume?

[d000hg]

So why don't you have the £79 a year sub that allows up to 6 users? or £59 for one user? Crazy cheap!

Because this is the first time in about 4 years I needed it. For non-work stuff Google docs is normally all I need.

[darmstadt]

Just you. I consult at a company where they have ~10,000 desktop users with only LibreOffice (because the desktop is Ubuntu) and no problems at all. Maybe they learnt how to use it properly....I know I had to, to work out that it was different to MO but does the job required....

[Platypus]

To mine too, £350 a year for Office is lunacy.

So why don't you have the £79 a year sub that allows up to 6 users? or £59 for one user? Crazy cheap!

[d000hg]

Right-click on the picture and select Anchor, Wrap or Align options. It's all there if you dig a little.

When all I want to do is enter text, paste an image underneath, then enter more text underneath, having to manually mess about with anchoring is not a working product. Adjusting those settings is for when you want to change the default behaviour.

[kloos]

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.

Right-click on the picture and select Anchor, Wrap or Align options. It's all there if you dig a little.