Document editing is a horrible business that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Fighting formats, muddled margins, puzzling paragraph breaks, annoying autocorrect, and stumbling spell checking leads to a mess of text that can't be combated by even the most confident keyboard cowboys.
@@ -77,13 +77,15 @@By default, the ribbon (that collection of icons at the top of the program) in LibreOffice is more reminiscent of MS Office 9x then MS Office 365. There is, fortunately, an easy fix. In the top menubar click View > User Interface. In the popup window that appears select 'Tabbed' and then 'Apply to all'. This ensures that it will apply not just to the current program you're using but the entire suite.
Microsoft have a lot of their own fonts that don't come pre-packaged with Linux. Luckily for us they can generally be installed with relative ease. If using Arch Linux then then is a very useful Arch Wiki article on it here. If you aren't using Arch then I wish you the best of luck.
+Microsoft have a lot of their own fonts. You can skip this section if you use Windows but you'll likely want to acquire them if you use Linux as they don't come pre-packaged. Luckily for us they can generally be installed with relative ease. If using Arch Linux then then is a very useful Arch Wiki article on it here. If you aren't using Arch then I wish you the best of luck.
LibreOffice often screams at you if you use MS Office filetypes. You can hide these warnings when saving files you can navigate to the hamburger menu > Options. In the popup you can then navigate to Load/Save > General and then untick 'Warn when not saving in ODF or default format'.
Shapes from MS Office don't have perfect compatibility by default, to fix this we can navigate to the hamburger menu > Options > Load/Save > Microsoft Office and tick 'SmartArt to LibreOffice shapes or reverse'.
LibreOffice often screams at you if you use MS Office filetypes. You can hide these warnings when saving files you can navigate to the Tools > Options (if you can't find Tools then try pressing alt). In the popup you can then navigate to Load/Save > General and then untick 'Warn when not saving in ODF or default format'.
Many embedded objects from MS Office don't have perfect compatibility by default, to fix this we can navigate to the Tools > Options > Load/Save > Microsoft Office and ensure all the boxes in the Embedded Objects section are ticked.
Navigate to Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Compatibility and ensure Reorganise Form menu for Microsoft compatibility and Word-compatible trailing blanks are ticked. Once done, click Use as Default and then Yes in the subsequent popup box.
Do you know any other good settings to change or compatibility practices? Leave your suggestions in a comment.
+Are there any specific settings you change, or parts of this post that you think could be improved? Leave your suggestions in a comment.