o.pwuaioc wrote:opa wrote:Yeah, I totally get it. That's just one of the reasons Office has the market it does. If you've been using the same program for the past twenty years, guess what program you're gonna upgrade to?
I mostly just do word processing so Excel doesn't have much of a draw for me but I get it. Office is nice to have.
I've been just fine using LibreOffice (with one big exception: the line separating the main pages from footnotes!), but I thought WPS Office was supposed to be very close to Word (and likewise to Excel), more so than LibreOffice's Writer and Calc.
Which is also why MS Office is available for OSX, which when I first found out seemed as crazy to me as when I first found out that I could get a Sonic game on a Nintendo system!
The last time I was using office was Office XP. I thought the ribbon interface was silly when I first saw it, but it is actually very intuitive. It instantly made the old archaic menu systems outdated, such as the one Office XP used. Still, I didn't care because at the time I wasn't using Office professionally. I started using Open Office because it had new features that Office XP lacked, like being able to convert a Word document into a PDF. And then later I started using LibreOffice. And I was using Mozilla Thunderbird for email which was great, especially after it got the calendar add-on built into it. But now it seems Windows 10 comes with a simple email client built in.
And I still like LibreOffice because it has a free and easy way to organize pages in a PDF document with the Draw app. Sure, you can technically edit a PDF with Word now, but it converts it to a Word document then you have to convert it back to a PDF. That can mess with the formatting. But more importantly, with LibreOffice Draw you can simply add, remove or reorder pages in the PDF without having to convert it first. This is important if you want to edit a PDF that isn't just a text document, like an instruction manual scan for a retro game.
So I was happy using LibreOffice until I started using MS Office professionally. Then like I said, I got use to MS Office so it would take me too long to figure out how to do stuff with LibreOffice. When I built my new desktop last year, I decided to just get Office 365 as my main office suite. The professional world uses MS Office, and that's not going to change any time soon, so I'd like to use Office at home so I can stay sharp with it. I hated subscription apps when they first started doing that, and there's still some things I really don't like about it, but there's also some reasons that it makes sense. Office 365 is only like $5/mo, and for me is worth it for what I'm getting out of it. 5 cross platform installs with sync/cloud capabilities, it's always up to date, and I get to stay sharp with the office suite that the professional world uses. But still, if there were no chance of me using MS Office at a job in the future then I would just switch to free products again.