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I try using Org-mode/Latex with pandoc,, but end up using only Office for docx and PowerPoint.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Latex on VSCode for personal things or otherwise Overleaf for collab. Otherwise default to google docs/Librr Office

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work mostly with texts, but if I need something office-y, I go old school: gnumeric for spreadsheets and abiword for documents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Abiword is so nice and underrated. The support for p2p collaboration in a document is nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if it counts but I've been using pandoc for the entirety of my college life so far which includes creating presentations and writing papers. For collaboration with other students, we would usually use Google Docs. It's pretty much the standard nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

99.9% of customers use Microsoft Office, so I have QEMU windows for this purpose.
For own work/at home I find I mostly get by with textfiles/markdown and odd LibreOffice spreadsheet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why QEMU? I've found it's performance an compatibility quite lacking compared to VirtualBox, or since you're using it anyway to run nonfree software: commercial products like VMware Player/Workstation

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

LibreOffice and Onlyoffice on my Nextcloud server

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Office 2021 bought outright. Was using office 2010 until recently as it kept having images disappear when scrolling etc.

Google sheets for some work stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OnlyOffice is the prettiest and most MS Office like, Libre seems the most widely compatible (RTL isn't really supported on onlyoffice for example)

[–] kand7 1 points 1 year ago

I was using Only Office for compatibility. Switched to WPS, it feels a little bit more compatible to me. I've tried opening my docs in Microsoft 365 and everything was perfectly aligned . Encountered some problems when using text boxes, but the blame's on me for that one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Locally I use LibreOffice, but I mostly spend time online using Collabora on my Nextcloud instance, and it works for the stuff I need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mostly just markdown for notes and logs and stuff. For spreadsheets libreoffice and collabora (selfhosted). Sometimes google docs, but only when other people use it and I need to work with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hardly ever use any Office. Docs and PowerPoint are legacy from typewriter age. I use wikis or git markdown in git repos. But if i need to use an office suite, it is google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Generally Libre Office but I'm trying out markdown with lowdown as my translator. I'm not impressed with it to say the least and niether groff nor latex are something I can put a lot of time into. Either way, groff is a bit archaic but I prefer it to latex's syntax (yes I know Rmarkdown is a thing).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to only office. I.get a lot of .docx files cos of uni, and I found only office to have the least amount of bugs. Most of the files I got were broken in libreoffice due to reasons I wish I could understand. For note taking I just simply use neovim and write in a markdown file. For presentations I do the same and use marp to generate the slides from my markdown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For proper work, MS Office. For everything else: Markdown, latex and plain text. LibreOffice for most personal stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I rarely use office suites these days. Mostly either wiki pages or Notion. I still use Google Docs for collaboration sometimes and LibreOffice for the rare docx or odt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was using LibreOffice on everything but for some unknown reason it just flat out stopped working on my machine so I installed OnlyOffice and honestly I much prefer it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

MS Office at work because they pay for it and it's our platform for almost everything. LibreOffice at home and for other personal stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mostly only need a spreadsheet. I will use anything at my disposal, but mostly Calc (LibreOffice).

Most of my text editing is markdown or actual code, so that is just VSCode or my IDE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Markdown with neovim for gits.

LibreOffice for spreadsheets and presentations.

LaTeX for publications and moderncv template for resume.

Etherpad for collaboration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've had a hell of a bad time using Libre for presentations. Has it gotten better lately?

[–] Sir_mittens2 1 points 1 year ago

whatever comes with the distro I am using at that moment, for me personally it doesn't matter much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OnlyOffice. FOSS, great MS compatibility, more modern than LibreOffice, local apps and runs in web with Nextcloud with great document collaboration options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Usually OnlyOffice though I keep LibreOffice installed as a backup as sometimes I've had weird compatibility issues with the former (very few and far between but still)

[–] EqMinMax 1 points 1 year ago

google docs and wps office.
Forgive me since I'm not a hardcore opensource user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Obsidian for notes, Libre Office and sometimes (please don't punch me) Google Docs/Sheets. Oh and LaTeX with nvim for docs that need to look real nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

LibreOffice, since I'm a light user and it's usually available.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

WPS Office for editing office files. LaTeX for writing articles. Emacs for everything else.

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