Post #74342
2025-12-17 17:14 UTC
Replies (17)
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@BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-17 17:24
Use LibreOffice
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@HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 17:44
LaTeX supremacy has entered that chat
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@lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 17:53
$150 a year, you mean
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2025-12-17 17:57
Once you’ve tried VIM, you’ll never go back. Mostly because you won’t be able to exit VIM.
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@lime@feddit.nu 2025-12-17 17:59
expecting word to edit pdfs is like expecting excel to edit compiled matlab programs
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@TomMasz@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 18:00
Survival of the fittest inescapable.
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@Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2025-12-17 18:03
It’s free (aaaaar) and it does everything I need it to. The pdf editing is a dream though. Use something else.
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@otacon239@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 18:04
TGFM - Thank God for Markdown Seriously, though. 9 times out of 10, markdown has all the formatting I need for the task at hand. On the rare occasion I need something more, I’m glad I have access to Apple Pages, but it comes with its own set of unique challenges.
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@Korne127@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 18:19
Honestly, I don’t think it’s the standard anymore. I wish it was, because as bad as Microsoft is, Google is even worse. But I feel like most people use Google Docs nowadays.
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@Kronusdark@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 18:42
At least for me, 99% of the time, Even for work applications, a plain text editor gets the job done. And if I need something fancier, Markdown solves that remaining 1%.
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@realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2025-12-17 20:33
The only thing why this is still the case is because microsoft is bundling everything in a single subscription and is also providing you with software that automatically keeps everything updated. The software is shit, but companies using the entire ecosystem probably save money. Sadly.
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@CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 20:45
Word works fine and has just about every feature business users needs. This stuff hasn’t been true in a long time.
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@daggermoon@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 21:19
Why would anyone use that garbage over Libre Office?
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@shalafi@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 21:48
People aren’t paying for Word, they’re paying for Excel and getting all the other goodies included. Yeah, LibreOffice is fine for home use, maybe even really small businesses that don’t have to trade spead sheets with external customers, but Excel is the killer app. Calc’s a fine spread sheet program, but it’s frustrating as hell after using Excel for 30+ years. You can’t trust that it will properly import an Excel sheet and it sure won’t do macros.
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@CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 22:39
I got so frustrated trying to use Word to write a document at work that I just gave up and wrote the whole damn thing in LaTeX. Sucks to be the guy who has to edit it when I’m gone.
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@arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de 2025-12-18 01:04
That’s how I feel about most Microsoft products actually.
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-18 02:31
Microsoft office is why I use iWork.