tabbycatJul 26, 2024
Monoka

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Which office suite(s) do you use at least once a week? (in a typical week)

Please only answer the poll *if* you use #office software, such as #wordprocessor, #spreadsheet #presentation software, etc.

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#LibreOffice #MSOffice #MicrosoftOffice #GoogleDocs #CalligraSuite #Calligra #FreeOffice #SoftmakerOffice #Gnumeric #CollaboraOffice #CollaboraOnline #OpenOffice #OnlyOffice #Microsoft365 #WordPerfectOffice #WPSOffice #iWork #Windows #Linux #macOS #Android #iOS

LibreOffice
44.4%
Microsoft Office
31.1%
Google Docs
19%
Other (please reply and explain)
5.5%
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Jul 26, 2024 at 9:52amWeb
Show threadpopeyJul 26, 2024
@GerryT Use Google Docs for everything. Often don't even install a local office suite at all unless I suddenly need it, which is rare.
Show threadWenAstarJul 26, 2024
@GerryT
I also use Papyrus Author on Win, Mac and Linux. Libre Office as needed, and MS Office (365 for work) under protest. ;)
Show threadJakub Klawiter Jul 26, 2024

@GerryT
Once a week? Statistically every week?
None of them… for 99% of tasks I'm using text file editor. :D

Once a month it will be @libreoffice

Show threadTor LillqvistJul 26, 2024

@GerryT Apple’s Numbers, Pages, Keynote.

But actually I am lying, I use a such once a month, max.

Show threadGonzalo Nemmi Jul 26, 2024

@GerryT I personally haven't touched any incarnation of #MSOffice for more than two decades.

And in all honesty, I don't even know how #GoogleDocs looks like.

I have been using every incarnation to what we know today as #LibreOffice since I was back in Law School in the late 90's and on my private practice ever since I've got my Lawyer's degree.

Thank you #libreoffice for helping me get a University degree and my work done ever since!

Show threadJiří Fiala Total LandscapingJul 26, 2024
@gnemmi @GerryT what do you do for collaborative documents? Or are you lucky enough so you don't need that?
Show threadMonokaJul 26, 2024

@stooovie @gnemmi I need to do lots of collaborative editing (everyone can work at the same time).

Unfortunately, LibreOffice cannot do it yet [1]. Google Docs works nicely with several users -> I frequently use it collaboratively. Collabora Online seems to work nice, but I don't have a server. Microsoft Office (desktop) with Sharepoint/OneDrive frequently crashes and has other limitations, so that I learnt to hate it, and Microsoft Office Online is terrible.

[1] https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/07/17/peer-to-peer-collaboration-with-libreoffice/

Peer-to-peer collaboration with LibreOffice - Design Community Blog

A while ago, Simon Phipps, member of the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation, shared the idea to introduce a peer-to-peer collaboration built in to desktop LibreOffice without the requirement for a cloud provider. This idea has received a lot of attention inside the organization and the design team

Design Community Blog
Show threadmike805Feb 3, 2025
@gnemmi @GerryT I also bailed on Office after they changed the interface in 2007. I looked at the new interface, tried to find the "go back to old interface" option, discovered there wasn't one, and said NOPE. Been using LibreOffice and OpenOffice ever since. Although Office 2003 is still a good set of tools!
Show threadHansJul 26, 2024

@GerryT

Microsoft nutze ich höchstens 1-2x/Jahr. Und das Offline.

Show threadAdam Jacobs 🇺🇦Jul 26, 2024
@GerryT I use MS Office at work, because I have to. I use LibreOffice at home, because that's my decision.
Show threadghostdancerJul 26, 2024
@GerryT MS Office at work, it's what we have and an old version 2010 I think. LibreOffice at home it's what we have.
Show threadJoostJul 26, 2024
@GerryT GNU Emacs
Show threadGregJul 26, 2024
@GerryT I use LibreOffice at home and work and Pages & Keynote at work. We have Office365 at work but I hate it and won't use it (especially PowerPoint)
Show threadGregJul 26, 2024
@GerryT Keynote is by far and away the best presentation software
Show threadGregJul 26, 2024
@GerryT I have Adobe Illustrator (at work) but both at home and work, I use Inkscape to produce presentation graphics in SVG.
Show threadvermadenJul 26, 2024

@GerryT

Since about a year or two LibreOffice is so good that I use it multiple times a day and I do not remember last time I needed MS Office ... but I have a portable 1.3GB version of Office 2010 just in case :)

Show threadthesaigoneerJul 26, 2024
@GerryT Softmaker Office 2024
Show threadrspJul 26, 2024
@GerryT I'm attempting (just begun) to transition away from Windows and O365 Linux and OnlyOffice or LibreOffice on both work and home computers.
Show threadManu MJul 26, 2024
@GerryT The Apple apps. I don't do serious work on those kind of apps since I was in college. But I still have a MS Office license for longer work.
Show threadKimJul 26, 2024
@GerryT Rarely use office software (I mostly live in text editors), but when I do it's either LibreOffice Writer to throw some text at a page, or LibreOffice Calc to do a bit of arithmetic or display CSV files.

Once in a blue moon I have to do something that requires MS Excel, which means I have to use Windows.
Show threadDavid CollantesJul 26, 2024
@GerryT none. I don't use any office suite. I use plain text (markdown).
Show threadJohnnyThanJul 26, 2024
@GerryT I use all of them regularly and also Cryptpad. I could without MSOffice, but some clients won't.
Show threadAlexJul 26, 2024
@GerryT
Libre-, and OnlyOffice.
Show threadStarkRGJul 26, 2024
@GerryT That's gonna have a huge selection bias. Not as big as "were you killed in an airplane crash", but big.
Show threadMonokaJul 26, 2024
@StarkRG Yeah, it is certainly neither a representative nor scientific study, but just a Mastodon poll. The Fediverse is probably not representative of the (global) society at large. Anyhow, it gives some nice idea what people are using and why.
Show threadFR4NÇ01S 🖍️🇫🇷🍉Jul 26, 2024
@GerryT #Apple #iWork : Pages, Numbers, Keynote & Freeform
Show threadLe Néandertal se sent las, lasJul 26, 2024
@GerryT vim
Show thread[email protected] movedJul 26, 2024
@GerryT pages and numbers
Show threadJosh 🐧 ☕ 🇬🇧Jul 26, 2024
@GerryT
Nano
Show threadjmcunxJul 26, 2024

@GerryT
Once a week ? None, I may fire up calligrasheets on Slackware one or two times a year.

But I guess I could say I use Emacs to maintain or create documents I need :)

Show threadStu 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🖖Jul 26, 2024
@GerryT Using Apple Pages etc daily, use MS Office less but still once a week at least.
Show threadFredric SolstadJul 26, 2024
@GerryT OnlyOffice
Show threadJesper ZedlitzJul 26, 2024
LibreOffice, OnlyOffice (old Nexcloud) and Collabora Office (newer Nexcloud) - all at work and private
Show threadRobJul 26, 2024
@GerryT
I can’t go back to file based docs - especially spreadsheets. I have tried Synology Drive and that is decent as well.
Show threadBardMoss the Bodhi Linux GuyJul 26, 2024
@GerryT
SoftMaker Office
I've been using it since 2008 on Windows and since 2012 on Linux. I distrohop a lot, so I also use SoftMaker FreeOffice if I'm not sure how long I'll be using a distro.
Show threadOlivetreeJul 26, 2024

@GerryT

I prefer Softmaker office.

https://softmaker.de/produkte/softmaker-office

SoftMaker Office | Die DSGVO-konforme Alternative zu Microsoft Office

SoftMaker Office, die DSGVO-konforme Alternative aus Deutschland zu Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) für Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS und Android

Show threadHappy SteveJul 26, 2024
@GerryT
Apache openoffice (on Mac). I used openoffice.org for many years on Linux about a decade ago, so just downloaded the thing with the same name on the Mac
Show threadmaremoteJul 26, 2024
@GerryT usually going with latex documents. I love how efficient and simple it is.
Show threadBreczkinJul 26, 2024
@GerryT Open Office
Show threadGregg AlleyJul 26, 2024
@GerryT Numbers, Pages and Keynote
Show threadtabbycatJul 26, 2024
@GerryT As a very small press publisher I use LibreOffice, and Scribus for book formatting. I run both on my Raspberry Pi 4.
Show threadStefan Haslinger ☮️Jul 26, 2024
@GerryT onlyoffice
Show threadxananaxJul 27, 2024
@GerryT openoffice because it integrates well with nextcloud and supports collaborative editing
Show threadmararmJul 27, 2024
@GerryT emacs org-mode
Show threadThomasJul 27, 2024
@GerryT #SoftmakerOffice
Show threadRecovered ExpertJul 27, 2024
@GerryT not once a week (since I quit the corporate world), but when needed Apples Numbers and Pages as well as \LaTeX when it makes sense.
Show threadJoel TakvorianJul 27, 2024
@GerryT google docs at work for the collaborative side
For personal stuff I rather use libreoffice but it happens less often
Show thread☑️✅ cybercow ✅☑️Jul 27, 2024
@GerryT I use libreoffice and it is really funny since i didn't talked about it as I started at the company but fror time to time someone talks about Libreoffice not being feacable for use with all those existing msOffice documents we hafe to deal with. Thets usually the moment I'm speaking up.
Show threadBuntbartJul 27, 2024
@GerryT
I voted for LibreOffice because that's what I use when I can choose. Unfortunately I also have to use M$-Office 2016 at work.
Show threadMirco BlitzJul 27, 2024
@GerryT I am happy with pages, numbers and keynote
Show threadHishamJul 27, 2024
@GerryT I use Google Docs for work (ie, every week) and LibreOffice for local documents (~once a month)
Show threadIan McLeanJul 28, 2024
@GerryT I used to live in spreadsheets every single day, so I was super sensitive to every little difference between LO Calc and Excel. After switching jobs, I'm now using Writer and Word much more than ever before, for configuring merge templates for Formstack mostly. Every now and again it throws up when it tries to digest a template saved by Writer (or gdocs, or even Word online) so I still have to keep a VM with MS Office around just for the occasional problem file.
Show threadpeter purgathoferJul 28, 2024
@GerryT IMHO apple's keynote (iwork suite) is the best presentation software, so i'm sticking with pages and numbers who can't compare with the respective flagships, but are more than enough for most of what i do.
Show threadArgos PapiroflectaJul 29, 2024

@GerryT

Open Office.

Show threadAndrew WhiteJul 30, 2024
@GerryT when I can, I prefer Apple’s tools. Particularly Numbers. The ability to draw and move tables like in a desktop publishing app is a killer feature for me.
Show thread🅰️nt⊡nio Vid⁂lJul 31, 2024
@GerryT I usually use and installed Libreoffice Write for editing documents. Draw for little design taskes or pdf editing, InkScape for the rest. I'm planning to use one collaborative webapp for office, on a self-hosting that can integrate with Nextcloud. Interested on OnlyOffice or CollaboraOffice one
Show threadfreitagvormittagAug 1, 2024
@GerryT MS Office at Work almost every day and Google Docs and Libre Office occasionally at home