IMO it goes something like this in the event of a user getting a new PC:
For everyone else, they get LO or MSO, because being able to receive and open a doc is pretty much a given for almost everyone these days. If the user was super elderly and never used WP/spreadsheets in any way except to write their own stuff and print it, I'd consider using the install files I have for Works SE9 and save them the pain in getting used to new software. I customised the LO toolbars to match Works's feature-for-feature. Frankly if someone's needs are so minimal that they've been working with Works, then LO is an improvement by every metric: It's kept up-to-date, it can generally read and write MSOffice documents without being a massive pain, they can send documents to other people without having to hop through crazy hoops (once the default save file types are changed to MSO doctypes) and it has far more features.įor one customer who had been using Works, I suggested LO on their replacement computer, then they panicked when they saw more toolbar buttons than they were used to. I've encountered a few Works docs (maybe created in really ancient versions like 4.0 for Win95) that LO couldn't open. LibreOffice can read most Works WP/spreadsheet docs.
Click to expand.My mum has been using LibreOffice for about ten years, before that it was MSO.
