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Pirating Microsoft Office 2019 on Linux?
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Libreoffice is the most atrociously structured piece of software I ever encountered. not only is the UI absolutely dated and god awful trash, it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents. i possess a special hate for it since it decided to crap out on me when I REALLY positively needed it.
don't know about collabora, will look into it
everything can.
That is because Microsoft doesn't follow the 1000 page docx standards they wrote themselves.
And I will defend the decent UI against modern words ribbon-trash to my death.
libreoffice ui can certainly be improved a lot, but microsoft office is definitely worse.
100% can confirm. It always takes me ages to find what i need in the ribbon interface. Especially the things that aren't visible all the time. First time I was asked to print something, I really struggled with that. And it used to be File->Print. And I have no interest in finding out if they made it easier or worse to do things like conditional formatting or alternating row colors in tables.
Regarding the issues with formatting: It's Microsoft's fault. They're doing this deliberately to get rid of competition. And they'll ensure it stays that way in the future.
There is one exception, however: You need to install the correct fonts. If you don't have the specified font available, a document will look differently and things might get misplaced, because your characters might now be wider or narrower.
Modern? The ribbon is 17 years old.
Everything post 9/11 is modern to some people...
The problem there is not with LibreOffice, but with Microsoft Office. They do not implement the format standard correctly.
Not that it eliminated your problem, but it's important to understand who the real culprit is and why.
I think it's also important to mention, that they wrote the standard themselves (after being forced to)
If you dislike the UI, you can turn on an MS Office-like ribbon design in the settings
If you want a piece of software that keeps closer to microsoft’s shitty file types I’d take a look at onlyoffice
As far as I know it uses libreoffice at its core