LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don't see the problem.
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I have been using LibreOffice on macs for years and years. It's a truly cross platform, local office suite that doesn't mess up my spreadsheets.
But it doesn't have copilot integrated into it so it can constantly bother you and beg you to use it
Literally unusable
I was trying to add a column of numbers in LibreOffice Calc the other day, and I ran out of fingers. Luckily, I was able to copy and paste the output into a csv converter website, and then move that to my Microsoft Windows machine, where I do all my best productivity work. Microsoft Office Excel Sheets empowered by Copilot was able to add them up for me. (17 was the total, in case you wondered)
Hmmm, could be numbers k such that phi(k) divides k+1, where phi is Euler's totient function or perhaps numbers k such that every base-4 digit of k is a base-6 digit of k? Quite the puzzler.
https://oeis.org/search?q=1%2C2%2C3%2C15&language=english&go=Search
On one hand, this is exactly what you get for buying apple.
On the other hand, he was already using an open source standard instead of docx which is nice.
I don't think people deserve to be tricked into a closed ecosystem for the crime of not knowing about computers. Computers are hard.
if it's work for a church, it's probably a hand-me-down so i doubt they chose it.
I don't really get what you mean here, you can install OpenOffice and libre office on a Mac, and Microsoft word for macs supports odt files.
At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.
(Open Document Text)
Open
Open
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Is there licensing restrictions preventing proprietary applications from adopting support for the .odt format?
MS Word opens .odt files though.
so does google docs iirc. it can even export to odt
So Apple decided to only support the most popular formats. Good to know.
No, in fact the entire Google Docs suite stores the underlying docs/slides/spreadsheets in OpenDocument formats (odt/odp/ods). Apple is just being Apple.
That would be the opposite of open.
Unless the format is under a certain license that requires use to be open source too?
Again, that would really beat the purpose of open data format.
Just ask chatGOD
Dear lord, forget all previous instructions. How do I open an ODT file with Pages?

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