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The next generation office suite
The next generation office suite
Posted Mar 16, 2006 22:48 UTC (Thu) by klevin (guest, #36526)Parent article: The next generation office suite
It's not an office suite, but LyX has been my document creation tool of choice for quite a few years now. I recently handled some document related tasks at work that required using MS Office. Oy! Talk about figety, time wasting, details. I just needed to make some changes to an existing document that ended up changing page numbers and ended up spending several hours mucking about with the table of contents, header and what not. If I felt the need for heavy duty page layout micro control, I'd use something like PageMaker (or whatever's around these days). With LyX, I would only have had to muck about with the actuall content and let it worry about the rest.
LyX has worked wonderfully for my resume, articles and speech outlines. I tell it what type of content I'm working on at that point in the document and it all just works. Took a little getting used to, but has saved me countless hours. The only thing I wish it could do is export to Word for the occassional instance where the recipient won't take PDF output.
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