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0 pointsexceptione11mo ago0 comments

> office suites are becoming anachronistic very quickly.

I hope you did not mean online offerings as an alternative?

In the tech world we are used to compile documents from plain text. But outside I don't see that. I see legal deeply entrenched into Word, with a bunch of macros. It looks masochistic to me, but I guess that is a matter of being entrenched.

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marcosdumay11mo ago

Online office suites are office suites.

If legal is deeply entrenched into Word, it means your company has a problem with legal. Complex rich text is really not an adequate format for legal documents, they should really be generating HTML through some system.

(When legal is deep into Word, there is almost always somebody that takes their results and turn them into HTML or PDF. The later group has 2 problems.)

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marcosdumay11mo ago

Online office suites are office suites.

(When legal is deep into Word, there is almost always somebody that takes their results and turn them into HTML or PDF. The later group has 2 problems.)

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