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Tankakern posted:so much wrongposting here, its painful we want to hear your opinions about open source office clones 
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libreoffice good, openoffice bad, why do people mention oracle
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Mar 27, 2017 22:35
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is wordperfect still in development? that's the best one. it even has "perfect" in the name, so u know
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Mar 27, 2017 22:38
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when I worked for ibm they decided to ditch ms word in favour of the ibm office suite which was somehow both based off OpenOffice and notes. it was so hosed up it was surreal but seemed sane compared to using ibm Maximo in ie8 on a p4.
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Mar 27, 2017 22:43
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Maximum Leader posted:when I worked for ibm they decided to ditch ms word in favour of the ibm office suite which was somehow both based off OpenOffice and notes. it was so hosed up it was surreal but seemed sane compared to using ibm Maximo in ie8 on a p4. they've come full circle and are back to office
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Mar 27, 2017 22:54
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Tankakern posted:libreoffice good, openoffice bad, why do people mention oracle lol opened libreoffice for the first time in ages today to see how things have progressed writer still doesn't have a mechanism for moving a table it can create them, but literally can't move them the official workaround is to save the document, close writer, open the doc in microsoft word, move the table, save again, close word, and reopen it in writer I first ran into this in 2007 and it still hasn't been fixed libre sucks
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Mar 27, 2017 23:34
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Issue 30782 - Please treat tables as object Status: CONFIRMED Reported: 2004-06-27 20:50 UTC
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Mar 27, 2017 23:36
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Maximum Leader posted:when I worked for ibm they decided to ditch ms word in favour of the ibm office suite which was somehow both based off OpenOffice and notes. it was so hosed up it was surreal but seemed sane compared to using ibm Maximo in ie8 on a p4. IBM Lotus Symphony. It was very bad.
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Mar 27, 2017 23:38
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gently caress making tables in a word processor that poo poo looks like garbage. a better dumbass workaround would be to screenshot a table made elsewhere, and embed it as an image. this is still dumb as hell though, use better tools if you're writing a science paper or whatever. fuckin latex or html + css is better to work with than positioning graphic elements in a word processor
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Mar 27, 2017 23:40
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OldAlias posted:gently caress making tables in a word processor that poo poo looks like garbage. a better dumbass workaround would be to screenshot a table made elsewhere, and embed it as an image. this is still dumb as hell though, use better tools if you're writing a science paper or whatever. fuckin latex or html + css is better to work with than positioning graphic elements in a word processor actually word does these things very easily
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Mar 28, 2017 03:16
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:Issue 30782 - Please treat tables as object hahahaha
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Mar 28, 2017 03:31
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:Issue 30782 - Please treat tables as object that's the beauty of open sores, you can fix it urself 
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Mar 28, 2017 03:59
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Bloody posted:why is the chinese brand's name in english
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Mar 28, 2017 18:33
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Symbolic Butt posted:I'm still thinking about Mouse
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Mar 28, 2017 18:33
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i use an xps 13 from last year and would recommend it to most. the new dell xps 15 is great too, more ram and slightly better battery life. the touch screen is marginally useful but the thin bezel is really nice to use. the newest macs are good, lenovo p40 is good if you need a higher performance laptop like you are doing solidworks on an oil rig and you cant bring a desktop lenovo t440 has a garbage trackpad and should be avoided. it is comically bad. they removed physical buttons and combined the worse features of all of their laptops to come up with this atrocity. when you click the whole touchpad moves a jarringly long distance.
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Mar 28, 2017 20:33
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why don't we all just agree to use plain text. documents don't have to be pretty, they just have to be legible. take teh red pill
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Mar 28, 2017 20:52
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:the official workaround is to save the document, close writer, open the doc in microsoft word, move the table, save again, close word, and reopen it in writer lmao
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Mar 28, 2017 21:30
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Tankakern posted:libreoffice good, openoffice bad, why do people mention oracle Because OpenOffice was owned by Sun and Oracle bought Sun and after not giving a poo poo for a while and letting the project die they gave it to the Apache foundation.
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Mar 28, 2017 22:24
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apache foundation also apparently didn't care for it. I wonder who it'll be regifted to next
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Mar 28, 2017 23:14
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I don't think the apache fork has any changes or fixes that the libre fork doesn't also have, so it should be allowed to die then libre should be allowed to die
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Mar 28, 2017 23:29
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just write with pencil on sheets of trees
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Mar 28, 2017 23:31
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I only use the finest Microsoft products for most of my writing, and latex for when I hate myself.
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Mar 28, 2017 23:37
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i just use google docs at home and word at work, hth op
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Mar 29, 2017 00:44
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comedy answer: pages
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Mar 29, 2017 02:05
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carry on then posted:comedy answer: pages numbers is even worse
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Mar 29, 2017 02:27
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pages is honestly fine if all you're doing is going straight to pdf or printer, but lol if you want to do any interop at all with anyone
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Mar 29, 2017 02:57
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Cold on a Cob posted:i just use google docs at home and word at work, hth op honestly this is the best option I can think of tbh
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Mar 29, 2017 03:03
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i write my documents in confluence markup
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Mar 29, 2017 03:47
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Bloody posted:i write my documents in confluence markup hell yes
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Mar 29, 2017 04:34
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codetalk your documents like that x files episode
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Mar 29, 2017 04:37
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i wrote a few things in r markdown before realizing its total loving trash
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Mar 29, 2017 06:33
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gently caress balls oval office poo poo
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Mar 29, 2017 06:37
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actually its ok to sign your posts sometimes.
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Mar 29, 2017 06:40
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COACHS SPORT BAR posted:lol opened libreoffice for the first time in ages today to see how things have progressed hahaha
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Mar 29, 2017 06:52
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OldAlias posted:word processors are categorically bad. libre is acceptable, as Word is not "better enough" to be worth money. keep what you do in them simple enough. if you need to embed media or have a bunch of particular formatting concerns use better tools libre sucks in that its permanently like word 2003 or something but its ok pages isn't bad. lmao if you have to make a document that is at all confusing I used styles in word 2010 to make a uni prohect. I made it dominate
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Mar 29, 2017 07:14
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word on mac is absolute garbage, even the new one. pages is okay and has some modicum of sanity when trying to edit line spacing none of this matters though because everyone uses word and you're not using it because it's good
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Mar 29, 2017 10:16
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MeruFM posted:word on mac is absolute garbage, even the new one. word on mac is still a million times better than libraoffice. Which is really saying something.
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Mar 29, 2017 10:41
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the word equation editor is actually p fun to use once you learn how to do it properly wonder where they stole that process from that's my word processing story
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Mar 29, 2017 12:18
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My only complaint with Word's equations is there's no easy way to number them in-line, at least there wasn't in 2007/2010. The easiest bodge was put them in an invisible table and put the number in an adjacent column. Other than that equations + styles set to match Uni's style guide was loving amazing for smashing out engineering reports in a hurry. Laptop chat: I'm a loving idiot and bought a Yoga 710 after my T410i caught fire. I don't miss the lovely screen, I do miss the trackpoint. jammyozzy fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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echinopsis posted:libre sucks in that its permanently like word 2003 or something they've introduced a ribbon style ui now http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/how-to-enable-libreoffice-ribbon-notebook-bar
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