My editor for the second edition of my Julia book doesn’t work with Markdown sources (!!!) so I need to move everything to Office.
I am on Linux and my univ has a subscription for Office 365, but when I need to do something it looks like my version of Word has way less features/formatting options than what various documentation sources show on internet… is it because I am on Linux? Or do they exist various subscription packages for Office 365 and some don’t have all the formatting options ?
Office documents are not suitable for publishing a technical book. Find another publisher. LaTeX / pdf is a good choice.
can’t, it’s the second edition… and I am on the final step (the editing).
Any how, I think I got it… “Office 365” actually most is still a desktop product, so when I see tutorials/doc they refer to the desktop product… what I have access instead (in Linux) is the web based version that is largelly a stripped down version. I tought they were the same by now, but no, they aren’t.
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That’s correct - while Microsoft has for a while being moving towards making the office suite a subscription product accessed in the cloud, the reality is that the online versions of word, Excel, and PowerPoint are extremely limited compared to the real products.
There is no reasonable office support in Linux, Microsoft doesn’t care and has even given up on its early efforts to at least have a first class Teams client in Linux. In short you’re out of link unless you dual boot/wine it somehow.
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Well, Teams on Linux works well. And I am happy with LibreOffice. Who needs Windows?
Hi @sylvaticus, on my Linux desktop I prefer to use Onlyoffice, because of its good compatibility with Word layout.
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To add to that, also the desktop version in macOS differs from the desktop version in Windows. There are some features (particularly in Excel and a few others) that are only available in the desktop version in Windows, but not so in the macOS desktop version.