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[–] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

This is it's strength in my opinion. Libre isn't great if you just want it to work coming from a Windows environment. I've tried quite a few options and this was my go to, it had far more of a friendly time with Word documents then Libre or others. Although I will say W3 was probably nicest but their sketch past of looking at people files and their local laws made me delist from my comparison list.