2026-07-17 10:21 UTC
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@GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa 2026-07-17 10:28
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org To be fair, odt is significantly larger than docx. Which I guess makes sense, since docx is zipped. I found this out when someone sent me a docx yesterday, and I made changes to it, and then saved it as an odt before sending it back to him (because I want to start exposing more people to odt, and MS Word opens those fine). I was shocked at the file size difference. So as an experiment, I saved my edits as a docx too, and confirmed it: the docx was like 20kb smaller than the odt. :/
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@mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social 2026-07-17 10:24
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org Unfortunately, all too common. Fell for the OneNote trap and exported everything before I left the thing that allowed me to use OneNote actively... now I'm stuck using some other software on my Mac to use the OneNotes I exported. It is better than OneNote to a degree though.
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@anarchic_teapot@oc.todon.fr 2026-07-17 11:09
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org They always were, kid, they always were.
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@Ralph@hear-me.social 2026-07-17 13:21
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org #alttext An OOXML Protest in Oslo, Norway, held on April 9, 2008. Their signs read: NO TO OOXML as an ISO-standard. PLEASE INVESTIGATE. Ecma: WITH-DRAW OOXML!
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@ArdentArchivist@archaeo.social 2026-07-17 16:24
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org Amazon’s, too.
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@ianp5a@social.vivaldi.net 2026-07-18 19:43
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org Documents are just a legacy hangover from the paper world people transferred 1:1 to PCs. We only still have them because Microsoft needs to keep their monopoly going and lock people in. These days we should be using something more fitting with the internet age of instant collaboration. Where individual pieces of information are accessible in a direct snd structured way. Not manually open a monolithic, closed PDF containing a whole bunch of stuff lumped together, you need to manually read through. Or other information spread across proprietary silos or incompatible apps, each with a different UI to learn, and a different structure tree. It's a junk digital landscape that could be solved with a single open standard. Office software must die.