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Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View PostIndeed, ribbon was just a plain bad idea from day one and has prevented many people from making the jump to newer versions of MS Office.
I think the interface in LibreOffice is sound as it already is, but it could use a bit of cleanup in the look and feel department.
Personnaly ribbon is not a problem : I already use a lot of keyboard shortcuts so at least half of the functions I use day-to-day is already known, and also usable in LO. But not all people, and as soon as they get used to MS Ribbonffice, they get some trouble to find their way through "old-style" UI, and so in LO.
Talking about java dependencies, when can I find the state of the clean-up ? I really hope they can get this finished soon.
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Originally posted by mark45 View Post[...]No wonder MS Office won over OpenOffice a decade ago since the competition was so lazy and out of touch with reality.
MS has also the advantage of owning the mainstream OS. Years ago and maybe even today Microsoft gives benefits to big computer and notebook resellers if they include MS Office on their computers. Until a few years ago it was normal that most computers were sold with Microsoft Word or MS Works.
Government authorities and many corporations could save much money if they replaced MS products with Open Source software. Example: Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich
LiMux on wikipedia
The authorities in Munich migrated to Linux and Open Office and saved in one year over €10 million. Window + MS Office would have cost over €34 million, their LiMux route costs €23 million in the same time.
Authorities in Russia and Iceland also migrating to Open Source:
Russia to switch to open source by 2015
Icelandic government prepares switch to open sourceLast edited by Fenrin; 26 November 2012, 07:24 AM.
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Still no 1-click table management.
Still no 1-cllick image management
Still no vertical centralization of text
Still no auto-paragraphing
Auto-correct is still a joke.
PDF-editing is still a joke.
Microsoft. Office 2013, now. Shut up and take my money.
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Hmm
Probably the real reason is OpenOffice was done in a cross-platform way in the mid-1990, when there were no true cross-platform libraries available - so they did everything by their own - including writing their own user interface toolkit!. Until MS which has a huge budget on Office, however, nobody found the time and money to refactor it as time went by.
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Promote Libreoffice using its native format
Always save your files using the open format, instead of exporting to Microsoft's. If someone complains, point them to libreoffice.org
Not everyone can justify spending 500$ in ms office (plus 120$ for OS), but everyone can have Libreoffice installed, even if you don't use it; just open the .odt in libreoffice then copy/paste the contents to your dreaded ribbon app. Make sure you reverse the process if you want others to view your documents.
You can't just demand everyone to purchase MS Office, but installing Libreoffice is a couple of clicks away...
When emailing, attach your files using the open format, with a link to libreoffice.org. Stop exporting to Microsoft's to make your voice heard, and help spread Libreoffice this way so next time your .odt file opens properly in their machine.
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Originally posted by Artemis3 View PostAlways save your files using the open format, instead of exporting to Microsoft's. If someone complains, point them to libreoffice.org
Not everyone can justify spending 500$ in ms office (plus 120$ for OS), but everyone can have Libreoffice installed, even if you don't use it; just open the .odt in libreoffice then copy/paste the contents to your dreaded ribbon app. Make sure you reverse the process if you want others to view your documents.
You can't just demand everyone to purchase MS Office, but installing Libreoffice is a couple of clicks away...
When emailing, attach your files using the open format, with a link to libreoffice.org. Stop exporting to Microsoft's to make your voice heard, and help spread Libreoffice this way so next time your .odt file opens properly in their machine.
Oh, and that said, MS does provide viewers for Excel and Word files free of charge, but then they also require Windows to run, so... And yes, they do not work correctly on Wine, either.
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Originally posted by Artemis3 View PostNot everyone can justify spending 500$ in ms office (plus 120$ for OS)
But please, don't let facts get in the way of your rants.
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