Microsoft’s exclusivity is good reason for everybody to get rid of MS Office and use a productivity suite like OpenOffice or LibreOffice that has file types that are widely accessible - MS Office is no better than OO and LO, perhaps it has more features theoretically but I never found anything I wasn’t able to do in OO or LO, and it is definitely not worth the subscription pricing, I had it for several years because our school system requires students to use MS Office, it is possible to use OO or LO instead of MS Office but is a bit inconvenient, so because the children had an education licence that we didn’t have to pay for we used MS Office, but I was glad to be rid of it when there were no more students in the house, it is slow to boot, a huge pain when a file automatically opens in MS Office because you forgot to tell it to use OO or LO, and it is inconvenient to use c.f. OO and LO, perhaps just a matter of familiarity but I think MS Office really is more clunky than OO and LO, so when the children finished High School I uninstalled MS Office even before the Ed. licence ended.
However, I’ve almost entirely moved on from word processors, I only use OO or LO for spreadsheets and use Scrivener for almost all of my writing. But I hardly do any business writing these days, you would need a WP for that. PCS. > On 17 Feb 2023, at 3:58 am, W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. > <robert.funn...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > > Nikhil - > > Microsoft have done their best to make it impossible for others to create > .docx files. > > Apache OpenOffice can save files in the older .doc format. LibreOffice > (www.libreoffice.org) can save files in the .docx format, but the process > isn't perfect. It usually works fine for simple documents. > > If you save your files as .odt or .doc, users of MS Word will be able to open > them. > > - Robert > ________________________________________ > From: Nikhil Kartha <nkarth...@gmail.com> > Sent: February 16, 2023 08:53 > > The reason I installed OpenOffice is because my dad recommended it when I > was facing an issue with the copy of MS Office that we had. It is quite an > annoyance however that the DOCX files when opened with OpenWriter have to > be converted to ODF inorder to be saved. We typically use Windows and MS > Office is just shipped with it usually. I want to guess that this is also > an online compatible filetype as GMail and Whatsapp are able to open it. > However, I have not had the chance to test ODF and would like to know why > the software forces this conversion and ontop of that states there will be > loss of something when saving in this format. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
