71–80 of 165 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fresh-off-the-line uni grads I talk to are still doing Office training as a first year course.
I have never heard of a college course about Microsoft Office at a university in the US. And I went to college in early to mid 2000s.
I've never been to a college that didn't require one Office course for all graduates.
We're a ~40 person wholesale distribution company and I moved our company to LibreOffice. We also use Google Suite. The issues I face with my company are usually accountants/bookkeepers are used to using Excel. LibreOffice usually can handle anything they are wanting to do. It just means a little extra time googling/playing around with it to work the same way. I try to keep everything on Google Sheets however. That s…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have never heard of a college course about Microsoft Office at a university in the US. And I went to college in early to mid 2000s.
Colleges offer entire degree programs in using Microsoft Office software. You can get an Associate's degree just in that alone. I've never been to a college that didn't require one Office course for all graduates.
Have a look at the plans of Schleswig-Holstein, a federal state of Germany. The want to switch 25.000 PCs to LibreOffice and Linux from Windows/MS Office. Details here: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-s...
Given how precious and valuable time is I don't really get the aversion to using Microsoft or something similar. Pricing has come down so much that it's less than people spend on coffee. If you are working on something worthwhile it doesn't seem worth the effort to avoid using mainstream, productive and cheaply available commercial software.
It is not about price. The usage experience on MSOffice is unpleasant enough to motivate seeking an alternative.
Folks in tech tend to be more worried about UI and UX and frankly tend to be nit picky when something doesn’t look or work like they would have designed it.
Never had success with it, being 97% as good as Microsoft Office isn't the same as being Microsoft Office. Formatting issues when sharing documents, tables that get blown out, looks kind of amateur sending those messed up documents to others unfortunately.
Yeah, whenever dealing with someone who uses O365 you are going to run into issues with everything from formatting to formulas to error messages. Not worth it imo.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Colleges offer entire degree programs in using Microsoft Office software. You can get an Associate's degree just in that alone. I've never been to a college that didn't require one Office course for all graduates.
I think maybe people are talking at cross purposes here and using the word 'college' differently, because I (in the USA) never even heard of a college that offers such a course, much less requires it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Colleges offer entire degree programs in using Microsoft Office software. You can get an Associate's degree just in that alone. I've never been to a college that didn't require one Office course for all graduates.
I think maybe people are talking at cross purposes here and using the word 'college' differently, because I (in the USA) never even heard of a college that offers such a course, much less requires it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing that everyone knows these days is Google Docs, not Office.
Only in a very small, insular bubble.
I have. Been using OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice since 2005, started business in 2007, never ever had a copy of MS office. I LAUGH at silly FUD like "you can't run a business without MSOffice", "You can't read documents ", "format compatibility problems!!", because that all is just FUD. If I ever (rarely, maybe 4 times total) receive a price file or spec that is unreadable by LibreOffice, I just ask to resend it to me…
Not really a FUD if you're dealing with Excel spreadsheets from other companies, especially those that uses integrations with Excel. However PowerPoint/Present compat is a hit-or-miss bother but not world-shuttering like with Excel though, and Word compatibility is actually okay except when dealing with weirder documents that is also fragile with different Word versions.