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LibreOffice 4.0 released

Posted Feb 20, 2013 10:07 UTC (Wed) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: LibreOffice 4.0 released by sorpigal
Parent article: LibreOffice 4.0 released

> People needing to do "serious" work mostly don't use MS Word in any case due to its abysmal styling and layout controls.

And with this comment, you've just shown that you're totally biased and not worth listening to, thanks.
Given that MS Word is the "de facto" standard, it is very much used to do serious work.

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Posted Feb 20, 2013 12:38 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]

You say bias and I say regrettable. The amount of hair-tearing frustration involved in trying to make a document done in MSWord look good approaches incredible as complexity or size increases.

There are a lot of people who don't have or don't know about better options, but nobody who has a choice uses Word for anything that requires sophisticated layout or styling. If some places require .doc submissions... so much the worse, they'll get poorly formatted input.

A word processor isn't a typesetting/page layout program and isn't supposed to be. Word compounds this by making even simple things harder than they have to be.

LibreOffice 4.0 released

Posted Feb 20, 2013 12:46 UTC (Wed) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

Your post mistake/miswording is this: "serious work" == "sophisticated layout or styling".
Yes Word isn't the good tool for sophisticated layout or styling, but in most case people don't care they can do their "serious work" with basic layout/styling.