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tastyfruit  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft makes final, aggressive Windows 10 upgrade push

    There isn't a decent word processor,

What's wrong with Google Docs or Libreoffice?





kleinbl00  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They can't format worth a shit.

If all you need is words on paper, you can use TextEdit. But if you need footnotes, captioned illustrations, columns and an index, Google Docs or Libreoffice will never get you there.

user-inactivated  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

LibreOffice still fucks up embedded images.

goobster  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Seriously? Have you ever tried to produce a professional looking document in either of those apps?

The last company I contracted with was a Google-for-Work office, and every tool we used was produced by Google. Page numbers, footers, images inline with text (like graphs), images with annotations, formatting options, tables of content, indices... Your final document looks like a third grader put it together for her "social studies" class, or something.

I'm not familiar with you, your history, etc, but I work as a writer. It's my job. And while GoogleDocs is fine for brainstorming, collaboration, editing, etc, you cannot seriously use it for final, print quality, documents.

user-inactivated  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ms Office is something like $400 a license, and we won't pay that. We are looking for alternatives, and Google was one of the options. Be bought a package and gave it to a power user to play with for a month before she gave up.

Say what you will about MS, Office is great.