Why would anyone use that garbage over Libre Office?
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Because businesses have been using it for decades, they have old spreadsheets with all kinds of functions and shit that may not easily port over, etc.
The unfortunate reality.
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I was using LibreOffice Calc on my work PC with a Threadripper CPU, and somehow it still chugs at times. Scrolling was very laggy with larger spreadsheets for example. I ended up using Google Sheets instead, which is way more responsive for me. If it was for personal use, I'd probably try IronCalc.
How does gnumeric work for you? That's my spreadsheet goto, but to be fair I have very simple demands.
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For business, they need Excel.
I love Libreoffice but the dictionary on there is abysmal. Like fully wretched.
I'm sure there's a way to add others but I just haven't discovered it yet.
Anyone who needs to do something serious
Word works fine and has just about every feature business users needs. This stuff hasn't been true in a long time.
Want to move an image but you don't know how text wrapping works? Want a .DOCX editor to edit a file format from Adobe? Don't know to R-Click? This memes for YOU!
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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.
It's free (aaaaar) and it does everything I need it to. The pdf editing is a dream though. Use something else.
Survival of the ~~fittest~~ inescapable.
Microsoft Word is just fine. I assume most of the hate is for Microsoft because Word works just fine for most people’s use cases.
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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%.
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.
I’m not a great example since I’m a lemmy user, Linux user, and a million other things that makes me weird as a computer user. But I do have to exist in the modern world and file paperwork and shit just like everyone else, and I honestly don’t think I’ve had to interact with a docx file in at least 6 or 7 years. It’s all PDFs and web forms. Work is all Google Docs and confluence and that type of shit. It’s probably been 10 years since the last time I even opened an MS word client proper, once I left academia.
Anyway, I agree with you. Word seems deader than a door nail in terms of any text editing zeitgeist
It absolutely is.
Looking at business users, 365 has 400+ million, whereas Google has maybe half of that.
Isn’t 365 a combo subscription for word plus a bunch of other stuff? I can’t imagine many of those people are paying exclusively to use word