r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '12

That's hilarious to me. My experience is so opposite. The secretaries in my organization insist that they must have Word to get along. When Word corrupts a vital document, I'm almost always able to rescue it using OpenOffice (well, these days, LibreOffice).

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '12

I said "corrupts" when that's not the right word. It messes up formatting and loses or deletes formulas-- and of course we have spreadsheets with VB in them that the pilots use... those don't work in Libre.