Office suites

[ejc]

Hello,

I am working on a word file, only text (no tables, no pics), unilingual (english), of 75 pages that includes 300 footnotes.
On Win7 (still alive and kicking) installed on a laptop with just 4 Go RAM, it functions smoothly. At my university library, on a machine which has win 10 and 8 Go of RAM, it would slow down and get stuck for a few seconds during automatic saving, and on Libre office on LL, it took about 60 secunds to open the file to start with (does not happen on either win7 or win10 as used with the machines described above).
Any suggestion for the future and how to be able to get rid of Win7 ?

[tikiti]

Any suggestion for the future

Try WPS Office. I use it, looks better & is similar to MS Office UI, and has more features than LibreOffice.

how to be able to get rid of Win7 ?

Don't you already have LL?  ???

[robinc]

Use Softmaker Freeoffice https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

I handles word docs no sweat.

What I would suggest is that you save it out as a Word .DOC file on Win 7 which will clear out all the crap the .DOCX format adds.

You should see the file size drop as a bonus. Open on LL to check you've not lost any formatting. Freeoffice will open but not save in .DOC it saves as .DOCX

I have swapped large nested table word docs with Office 2103 users via Softmaker Office no problem.

[trinidad]

Before you jump to any conclusions open up LO, click >Tools >Options >Memory in the main interface. Adjust the memory upward. The default settings are for memory challenged hardware. If you have 8G of RAM crank it up. LO is the fastest office suite there is that I know of. I have worked on and edited one million word documents without lags.

TC

[ejc]

Use Softmaker Freeoffice https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

I handles word docs no sweat.

What I would suggest is that you save it out as a Word .DOC file on Win 7 which will clear out all the crap the .DOCX format adds.

You should see the file size drop as a bonus. Open on LL to check you've not lost any formatting. Freeoffice will open but not save in .DOC it saves as .DOCX

I have swapped large nested table word docs with Office 2103 users via Softmaker Office no problem.

Thanks! I ll try that; any recommendation on how to install it on LL ? i download the .deb and just double click?? (my computer is 64 bits). Should i set up automatic updates as explained here or rather not?
https://www.freeoffice.com/en/tips-and-tricks-linux


Update: i downloaded it and got a message "this type of file can harm your computer etc."
Was that from Chromium or from LL? Frankly if it is LL, it sounds realllllllyyyyyyyy Microfaustian.
Maybe when double-clicking on it to install it would make sense, but just downloading it?
:-[

[ejc]

Thanks, it would be faster if I had 8 Go ram, but i have 2.

[Moltke]

[quote author=robinc link=topic=7039.msg50652#msg50652 date=1580450979]
Use Softmaker Freeoffice https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

I handles word docs no sweat.

What I would suggest is that you save it out as a Word .DOC file on Win 7 which will clear out all the crap the .DOCX format adds.

You should see the file size drop as a bonus. Open on LL to check you've not lost any formatting. Freeoffice will open but not save in .DOC it saves as .DOCX

I have swapped large nested table word docs with Office 2103 users via Softmaker Office no problem.

Thanks! I ll try that; any recommendation on how to install it on LL ? i download the .deb and just double click?? (my computer is 64 bits). Should i set up automatic updates as explained here or rather not?
https://www.freeoffice.com/en/tips-and-tricks-linux


Update: i downloaded it and got a message "this type of file can harm your computer etc."
Was that from Chromium or from LL? Frankly if it is LL, it sounds realllllllyyyyyyyy Microfaustian.
Maybe when double-clicking on it to install it would make sense, but just downloading it?
:-[
[/quote]

That message's from chromium. After downloading the .deb package you can install it by either one of these three methods:
1. Selecting it, right-click on it and from the context menu select install with gdebi or
2. Double-click the file which does just about the same as above or
3. Open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo dpkg -i pkg_name.deb

if get any messages regarding missing dependecies type

Code:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

and that should take care of those. On the other hand, methods 1 or 2 will take care of everything for you.

Hope this helps!

[ejc]

Thanks! Good that you wrote your last sentence because I was going to do all the three steps... :o

[Moltke]

Thanks! Good that you wrote your last sentence because I was going to do all the three steps... :o

Yeah, sorry about that, my bad. Should have written instead that you can install the .deb pkg by using either one of those 3 methods not all of them at the same time. I just edited it so it reads better. Glad to help.

[robinc]

After downloading the .deb package you can install it by either one of these three methods:
1. Selecting it, right-click on it and from the context menu select install with gdebi or
2. Double-click the file which does just about the same as above or
3. Open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo dpkg -i pkg_name.deb

if get any messages regarding missing dependecies type

Code:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

and that should take care of those. On the other hand, methods 1 or 2 will take care of everything for you.

Hope this helps!

WRT the above - for a command line install it is perhaps easier to simply open a terminal in download file location and do

Code:

sudo apt install ./file.deb

- that way the dependencies are resolved all in one go.