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0 pointsvjvjvjvjghv27d ago0 comments

Libre Office is fine standalone but as soon as you have to exchange files with other businesses you are often pretty much forced to use MS Office. Sad but true.

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nrub27d ago· 2 in thread

Just because they don't know how to use a computer well, doesn't mean you can't teach them.

9dev27d ago

Uh-huh. Sorry mate, I'm not in the business of unwarrantedly lecturing my customers or authorities about technical correctness. But if that floats your boat…

hvb227d ago

Which is fine, if and only if that's your actual business

Joel_Mckay27d ago· 2 in thread

Most use PDF for exchanges anyway, as there is no guarantee the receiver system has all the document components/features used to author content.

10% of users with MacOS Office 2019 installs just got NERF'd by Microsoft. This story will not encourage users to spend more money on a disappearing rabbit trick. =3

zelphirkalt27d ago

The critical point is collaboration on a document. I wish LO had this. You know, like other collaborative editors online, where you can see the other person's cursor and inputs live and all that, with a conflict free data structure driving it all. LO needs this, if it ever wants to replace MS Word in businesses. Even if it would be totally fine for most situations to edit sequentially, there are those cases, when multiple cooks are trying to change a company document, and now they can't, and need to be in a call, to organize their editing or share their writing ideas, because the tool doesn't allow them to edit at the same time.

It does not even have to be in a web UI or browser. Just somehow make it possible to easily connect and edit collaboratively. I know, I know, it is a huge ask, unfortunately.

Joel_Mckay27d ago

>It does not even have to be in a web UI or browser

LibreOffice Writer online was not popular, so it is understandable you assume it doesn't exist. There is also the trivial headless Linux remote desktop cloud hosting with 100% identical functionality.

>"edit at the same time"

Perhaps you meant: "View -> Toolbars -> Track Changes..."

Most documents that support OLE have difficulty handling concurrent writes. Office 365 abandoned desktop publishing in 2019, and replaced it with a web document management system.

Best workaround is every user imports each instanced changes: "File -> Merge Document."

And manually handle any collisions.

I would post how to setup your own remote collaborative environment on an $8/month host, but people seem like they are not interested. =3

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