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This is driving me nuts. I already pay more than £100 a year to use Word for the few weeks of final revision and editing. Now Microsoft place this nag at the top of every document on Windows and there's no way to get rid of it. I've bought the bloody thing already.

24/10/26, 1:46 pm0 reposts6 likes

David Hewson

@davidhewson.com

And yes it doesn't appear in Word on the Mac for some reason. But Word on the Mac is slow and clunky compared to Windows.

bluevistas.bsky.social

@bluevistas.bsky.social

Yeah, I resented the yearly subscription so I switched to LibreOffice. No crap, so far and it's been a year.

David Hewson

@davidhewson.com

You have to use Word when dealing with publishers and changes. No real choice in my view.

bluevistas.bsky.social

@bluevistas.bsky.social

ohhh... That's crappy, monopolistic! Libre seems to convert seamlessly, both ways. Thanks for the info. I use it professionally without trouble--medical.

David Hewson

@davidhewson.com

It's not really it's just practical. We all need to be working on the same file seeing the same thing.