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Very great discussion happening on more adoption of LibreOffice in educational and otherwise places. (tweesecake.social)
submitted 11 months ago by weirdwriter@tweesecake.social to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Very great discussion happening on more adoption of LibreOffice in educational and otherwise places.

Yes, the title is stranegly worded, but I did want to share a productive thread happening on the Accessibility email list for LibreOffice.

You can read the thread at https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01038.html

#Accessibility #LibreOffice @foss

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[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Is LibreOffice the dominant Microsoft suite competitor? I used to use OpenOffice, but it was kind of bad.

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's the dominant open source competitor. I think Google's office suite would be their largest overall.

[–] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 6 points 11 months ago

@rkw_social @MacroCyclo I think so as well, yes. LibreOffice is the most maintained FOS solution to Microsoft Word. Microsoft has a billion times better accessibility support, but then again, big tech is always lightyears ahead of accessibility support, sadly! Still, I hope that tide is shifting.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

it is and has great compatibility with office formats, such as password protected excel spreadsheets.

[–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe give the OnlyOffice Desktop Editors a spin, too. Don’t get me wrong, LibreOffice is great and all, but OnlyOffice looks and feels a lot more familiar to Word/Excel/PowerPoint users. I’ve found that its handling of document formatting is better than LibreOffice’s.

There’s a server component, cloud plans available, yadda yadda, but you really only need the desktop editors. https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx

Source: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors