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Originally Posted by Quoth
You do need to change the default settings. I find it far easier to use the style and outline "navigators". Also you need to edit in in odt and do an extra save as in docx. It's been better for stanalone use for years. The only reason to use MS Word is if in an office/company were everyone is using Word, but that can be solved too.
I sold, installed and customised MS products inc. Office for over a decade.
Styles & Outlining work better in LO Writer.
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Well, that's interesting, because the outline mode is the main reason why I'm staying on Word 2003. I haven't found a single word processor able to mimic it.
In fact, I live in Word's outline mode. I never use the others. To me, hierarchical text is the way I think and write. It's not an afterthought enhancement.
I have tried Libre Office and Soft Maker outline modes, and I'm unable to reproduce what I do in the Word outline mode.
Also, inserting hyperlinks, pictures and Excel tables in a Word document is an extremely polished process. Not so in the others.
Styles are rotten in Word, and the result is extremely ugly, because I use the default styles. You need to be a professional typesetter in order to do otherwise. But I don't know any other program which does it better.
Regarding Libre Office, I regularly check Dedoimedo's tests. He is in a year-long transition from Windows to Linux, and a professional user of both Word and Libre Office. He publishes reviews of new versions. Each time, his conclusion is : nice try, not good enough.
He's comparing it to current Microsoft Office versions, of course.
The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption ? LibreOffice
Oh, and as an apology for veering off-track, here is his raving review of Calibre :
Calibre, a high-caliber software for anything e-book