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   Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 03:59:04 JST Sean Bala

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   • Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)

   @susankayequinn

   I used @libreoffice in grad school and it was great. Got into Windows stuff for about a decade (❤️ Nokia Windows Phones). One day last year I realized how much space Office was taking up on my Surface Pro with very little storage (3 GB versus 700 MB). Reinstalled LO and have been very happy. The AI madness at Microsoft has been leading me to gradually get rid of as much Microsoft stuff as I can. It's a task because I have used MS services heavily.

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     Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (susankayequinn@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 03:59:06 JST Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)

     Just donated to LibreOffice.

     I've been using LibreOffice Writer and Calc for a year, after being a Word/Excel user for decades (I left when MS shoved GenAI into Word).

     They are absolutely compatible. I'm not a power spreadsheet user, but I am a professional writer, and I'm very pleased with comment handling and compatibility, in case I need to have Word format for critiques.

     Highly recommend everyone leave MS Office.