I’ve been dual-booting Linux and Windows for a while, with Windows as the fall-back option in case I wanted to use Office for something. Now that they tried to trick me into paying a subscription for their AI slop machine, I’m finally, fully out. It was a pain to actually track down and back-up the stuff that was held for ransom in OneDrive, but now it is done.

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’m not sure, I’m using documents produced by a larger org. The message I get if i try to edit the locked parts is:

      The author has locked parts of this document. You can make changes only to the unlocked parts.

      Btw i tried using Google docs on these Word files and the formatting broke in all kinds of terrible ways.

      I know the idea here is to maintain consistent branding among the franchises. Anything sent back to the parent org needs to be in docx format, with no changes to the locked elements. If that can be done with a FOSS program, great! Local use has more leeway, but broken formatting is a nonstarter