dismay3915Feb 20

One of the main places windows is used, like it or not, are organizations and companies. Especially small ones. Specially ones that are not in wealthy countries. And the only thing that keeps them from switching to linux is microsoft office. (Most importantly Word, excel).

My company has ~20 people and I would switch them over to linux if it wasn’t for word and excel.

While libreoffice is great on it’s own, companies send eachother xlsx and docx files. And libreoffice isnt great at reading or writing them. Specially complex ones. I don’t think it’s much of libre office’s fault, but more the shitty incompatible, unstandardized microsoft formats.

Currently I’m the only Linux user in the team, and I constantly advocate Linux, but I know if anybody switches, compatibility with microsoft office is going to be a problem. I can take the risk with the tech team but not the office section (hr, sales, secretary accounting etc.) really.

Show threadsonofearthFeb 20
Try onlyoffice and slowly try to shift to libreoffice with open document formats. Or just skip that part and move everyone to the web versions of office. Also if you guys are on office 2010, the last time I ran it via wine, it worked completely fine.
Show threaddismay3915Feb 20
No you cannot shift to open document formats because you can’t send an odt file to another company. They will not know what it is. In the enterprise world you have to “send them the word” or “the excel”.
Show threadShouldIHaveFunFeb 20
I’m most case you provably want to just send the document as PDF, don’t you? For which use case do you want to send an editable document to another company?
Show threaddismay3915

Many companies will send you docx files out of sheer idiocity. And tell you to “send the word” to them.

And excel is always transferred as xlsx

Feb 20 at 3:33pmWeb