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Originally Posted by Notjohn
I'm told that LibreOffice has the advantage (over OpenOffice) of saving as *.docx.
Do you find that it has other advantages as well? Does it do a good job of exporting as PDF?
Thanks!
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Hmm, I had no idea that OpenOffice could
not save as .docx, whereas LO-generated .docx seems to work OK in Word. So do .xlsx files.
As for other advantages, I'm not sure. Back when LibreOffice forked off from OpenOffice, I went with LO, since it seemed to me at the time that LO had the more active development and support. My impression was that OO has since closed the gap, though.
LO's pdf generation is adequate for my uses. For me the most challenging use would be when printing, say, nametags or mailing labels from a LO table whose layout must precisely match a specific form. IIRC, the label templates supplied by, say, Avery for MS Word may or may not work in LO, but even if they don't, you can easily create your own table to the specifications of the label sheet (usually given along with the template).
Albert