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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I find it’s exactly identical to MSWord, but from the mso97 days before the Ribbon bollocks. I used o97 Word because it was like win3.1 Word … word-perfect? It’s been a while.

  But, TL/DR, LOWord is like Classic MSOffice from when it didn’t suck. This will not help you adjust, but hopefully the knowledge that you’re going back to a better era of UX could help blunt the pain.

  Go carefully, and have your favourite vice handy to goose the positive reinforcement loop.

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks mate

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can switch to the “Tabbed” interface for something more similar MS Office: …libreoffice.org/…/WG2521-UserInterfaceVariants.h…

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks I tried that yesterday but I don’t get given those options on libre

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hmm, that’s weird. Are you on a semi-recent version of LibreOffice? I believe, it got shipped with version 6.0.

      And just to be sure, you are checking here, right?:

      Menu Bar → View → User Interface…

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      • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yep there exactly. I’m in the UK if that matters

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Libra is terrible, too. Download OnlyOffice.

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