I am doing my best to transition from Microsoft Office, so I thought it might be useful to put comments here. The top three difficulties I’ve found in using LO are:
- Macros. If I had a real macro option, I could put right a lot of the difficulties I’m finding. But the macro language Writer uses just isn’t capable of doing what I want, and it slows my work considerably. I don’t even mind retyping my Word macros, since I’d only have to do it once, but since it involves capitalization and changing font colours, they just don’t work.
- Capitalization. Using curly quotes makes capitalization inconsistent. If you start a sentence with a double quote, the word inside the quotes isn’t capitalized. If you start a sentence with a word that contains an apostrophe, the word doesn’t capitalize. Either do, or don’t do.
- The interface. I want my ribbon back. I still miss it, after 6 months transitioning. An add-on would be super, as then it gives the menu-fans the option to keep it if they want to.
As it is, I’m still looking for a reasonably priced or free office substitute that does this. What drove me away? I won’t rent my software, the one-off price is exorbitant, especially since it only covers one installation, and if I try to reinstall Office after a reinstall, re-registering is such a PITA it’s hardly worth doing. I actually have a legal copy of MSO 2010, but I really can’t go through all that rigmarole because I’ve had a new motherboard installed.
(And why are the captchas on this page so difficult to read?)