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by hatfortguy 2446 days ago
I write for my day job so I spend a lot of time in "office" software.

I used to deal with a lot of MS Office documents, less so now. Most forms and web docs are PDFs and there's a growing crowd of people happy to send Open formatted docs. I've used Libre/Open Office for about 5 years as my main office suit and had no issues. It does feel less polished, and I do miss the "styles" thing you can do with MS Word but for copy I find it perfectly adequate.

If I need professional typesetting, or really anything more than Libre Office can handle, I use LaTeX. It's actually very quick.

You can also use MS Office online; their web editor is very good. I use it when I need to preserve an MS Word themed document's formatting.