#libre office downloading

[sephirajo]

Having to get an image editor for an RP banner, and well, at least Krita exists because I'm not touching GIMP.

[uchiha-slut]

wow new laptop I can finally start writing again:,)))

[princessmuk]

🚨⚠️ATTENTION FELLOW WRITERS⚠️🚨

If you use Google Docs for your writing, I highly encourage you to download your work, delete it from Google Docs, and transfer it to a different program/site, unless you want AI to start leeching off your hard work!!!

I personally have switched to Libre Office, but there are many different options. I recommend checking out r/degoogle for options.

Please reblog to spread the word!!

[themostefficientwaywithwater]

maybe i should switch to linux. maybe one fucking hour updating Windows 10 (which forced me to update right bow bc It was laggy as fuck) is not normal. maybe i deserve better-

[mrtheinsatiable]

This thing runs way better than I expected of a 10 year old laptop I haven't used in 5 years

Hhhhh I wish my laptop was working bc I want to write and for some reason a laptop specifically is my most productive medium

[inkoherentwriting]

confession time; i didn't participate in WIP Wednesday yesterday because I was busy sorting my google docs

i don't... particularly like google docs but it unfortunately has a record of storing my fics better than the computers i've had in the past few years (and now I'm too antsy to download libre office or a better word processor on this current laptop)

ah. at the very least the new document tabs function is tiding me over...

[nerianasims]

I'm seeing many posts about how to kludge Google Docs into something workable, and how to stop Google from stealing your content, today.

I have a VERY simple solution. A permanent one. One that will get you a far better writing program that you will not have to fear:

GET LIBRE OFFICE

I think people don't believe that it is actually 100% free, for all of it. But it is. Completely totally utterly free. No ads. Plenty of updates, all free. Plenty of extras, all free. Plenty of customization, all free. No pop-ups asking for donations, though it does ask when you first download, and then you can say "no" and skip happily on to the totally free download for the totally free and entirely trustworthy program.

Here is the link: https://www.libreoffice.org/

Download, install, write, be free.

(Oh, and it's also compatible with Word. The Excel-type program in it is also great btw.)

[transfaguette]

libre office is the best thing ive ever downloaded that is word possessor related. i cant get over that they even have word art but of the more substantial differences its got every feature people need that companies neglect or dangle above your head to squeeze money out of you

AND then theres total customization for ui including extensive ui color changes and fount changes i just need to preach the good word of free and open source every chance i can ahahaha

looking into this....the biggest thing for me w/ google docs is its just extremely easy to access my stuff from anywhere since I move from my desktop to my bed a lot. but i see it also has android/ios apps so maybe...

[chornayadrakoshig]

okay I'm tired of windows fucking up the activator for my MS office. No I'm not gonna buy it i'm just switching to libre office finally. I could've download and try a few other activators but I'm too fucking pissed that this thing happen when I a) was tired from work b) wanted to work on some fics while I had inspiration. And it's like third time in the last year. fuckit

[aidanchaser]

Fanfic writer asks: 1, 3, 12?

oh thank you! from this ask game; these are somehow all very embarrassing answers im sorry that im cringe

1. What is your favorite trope to write?

Oh geez, I don't know... does hurt/comfort count as a trope? That's probably like, my favorite tag. or similarly, "angst with a happy ending" but I know I love reading fake dating. So much.

3. What is the main program you use for writing (google docs, the ao3 writing text box, etc.)

I use Google Docs almost exclusively. I recently downloaded libre office to try out but I haven't set it up yet. It's hard to change when you've been using something for so long. Occasionally, like particularly for sprints or drabbles, I will use writtenkitten!

12. First ever fic written?

My very very first fic I ever wrote was a teen titans episode and I hand wrote it on paper and never published it anywhere but let lots of friends and family read it. My first published fic was an Inuyasha insert where my self-insert half-cat demon married my fave character and we had like 9 kids. I don't believe it is accessible anywhere, as that old fanfic website no longer exists.

[halfbit]

hey! this is chance & here’s this week’s prompt. what websites or resources do you use while you write or develop a character/story? what do you think of them and would you recommend them?

hiya chance! thanks for the ask! also i went way too detailedwith this one again, sorry adsajfhdks.

i included links to every resource i listed that is either free or freemium, aside from one's that are on most people's computers by default.

i've tried out a lot of different stuff over the years — i don't have wi-fi so i have strong preference for offline programs and tools! so the majority of these are kept on your computer.

my main tool right now is obsidian — prior to that i used quoll writer, joplin, and plain old notepad (yeah...) though, and i haven't finished transferring and reformatting everything yet ^^. i only reopen quoll now though to look at my old notes. i highly recommend obsidian, it's so much fun once you figure it out and highly responsive. quoll is useful too but i had some issues with it, including the occasional lost content, random crash, and just general slowness.

i use obsidian for keeping all of my brainstorming together, backing up my discord rambles, outlining plots, and organizing my worldbuilding and character profiles. i also sometimes write short stories or little one-off scenes in it.

a sample of my obsidian setup for serpent's quest + a different obsidian setup i have for another project that is. a bit too cheesy and embarrassing to share.

i do dabble in conlanging for serpent's quest! originally i kept all my words in a notepad file, but i ended up downloading polyglot to help keep things organized and make it easy to generate new vocabulary offline! i keep formatted notes on my conlangs in libre office (which is also what i use to write my longer stuff). i also use polyglot to generate names and organize their meanings/origins when i'm stuck!

my polyglot system for names specificially!

on occasion i use twine, but usually for specific things like family trees, timelines, or connecting my universe together. however i recently figured out how to do this with obsidian too so i'm probably gonna move that part over to obsidian as well (obsidian is great yall)

a section of one of my family trees done in twine

some adjacent resources i use include:

clip studio + concepts + physical sketchbook for art & visual brainstorming. i also designed the conlang script in clip studio. i find concepts is really useful for getting rough visual ideas out quickly, although it runs a bit slow on my computer. it's a lot less polished than clip studio, but that kind of takes the pressure off and makes it easier to just experiment. it's like using ms paint but with slightly better tools.

some rough ideas i drafted using concepts!

sometimes i also use it for "hand-written" digital notes, which is super helpful for brainstorming ideas

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allusion + pureref for visual references. you could definitely use these to store moodboards too if you wanted to have some inspiration on screen while you write or brainstorm, although i haven't done that myself though. also might be good for reference images of the setting, so you know what the place looks like. pureref lets you keep things on the screen, whereas allusion allows you to create custom tags and folders for your reference images, making it easy to find them and plop them into pureref when you need them.

this is my allusion set up! i mostly got it because i had way too many references for pureref to keep up with, i still need to go through and tag everything properly, but if you're just gonna use it for keeping moodboards or character sheets organized i think it can be super useful (and offline!)

websites i use when developing things or generating inspiration include tvtropes, wikipedia, findmypast (for old newspapers) and ofc youtube and tumblr.

when i'm developing a story or character, i like to go through tv tropes and see the different archetypes and how different works have subverted or played them straight. i almost always walk away with an idea i want to explore or flip on its head.

wikipedia is great to use as a starting point. i usually try to go through the sources and see if i can find more in depth stuff that way, or use the names it mentions to see if i can get more. i also use it to check if my names make sense if i'm pulling them from a real culture. i tend not to worry as much about the meaning being accurate, i'm more concerned with whether it makes sense for a 40 year old to be named dillian. so i usually double check the wikipedia page for a name and look at the notable people with that name, what country they're from, and what years they were born in.

i found findmypast while i was doing research for adigore, but i can see it being immensely useful (and very entertaining) for general research. it has an immense amount of newspapers you can read and search by keywords. you can't access all of them, but you can access enough that it doesn't really matter.

with youtube i love it for more casual idea acquisition! i'll sometimes listen to videos about worldbuilding or writing in the background during work. i definitely prefer it as a well of ideas or worldbuilding zone rather than a "writing advice" corner, all of these things are hugely influenced by one's own opinions, but i think you can still walk away with some cool stuff regardless (or a better idea of what doesn't work for you!)

here's a few specific channels i've been enjoying lately.

the grungeon master - explores and questions fantasy tropes and ideas, usually done in the context of d&d, but i've found the discussions to be highly transferrable to general fantasy as well

kaz rowe - modern and medieval history, culture and historical misconceptions, a gold mine if you're doing any type of writing at all regarding the victorian period as well, and also just entertaining in general. often explores media (especially queer) in a historical and cultural context too!

localscriptman - from the perspective of a screenwriter, i've found the writing advice to be very helpful especially if you sometimes need more bluntly delivered ideas. this won't be for everyone but i feel like if it is for you it'll just work.

and for tumblr well, it's all of yall! sharing cool stuff, and stumbling upon cool blogs and the recommendations they give. a treasure trove of resources and knowledge! thank you.

god why did this get so long. why did i spend so much time on this. i could have just done a bulletpoint list. i am so good at answering simple questions. aaaaaa haha </3

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Can anyone who understands technologish explain exactly what this:

If you're a technology enthusiast, early adopter or power user, this version is for you!

and this:

For business deployments, we strongly recommend support from certified partners which also offer long-term support versions of LibreOffice.

mean for someone looking to replace Microsoft Word as a go-to word processor that I don't have to pay for every year?

I use Microsoft Word for writing creatively, with chapter headings and different fonts and such. I also use it for my game data collection and garden data collection and other such things where I don't intend to print them, so I like to reduce the margins to the edges, both side to side and top to bottom. I often work in the dark, so I like my pages black and my font colours to be dark enough to not hurt my eyes. I also like to use highlights and coloured fonts to keep track of things.

All of which I used to be able to do on Microsoft Word, but for some reason I can't go to the edges on the top and bottom, only the sides. The pages can't be black in dark mode, only charcoal gray, and the font colour shades are all inverted. Which I don't know why anybody thought "dark mode" should mean "invert all shades" but those people were stupid and I don't like them.

Anyway, Libre Office is free, so I want to download it, but I don't know which version because the information next to each doesn't actually tell me anything as far as my needs and usage.

[warningsine]

Hi :D do you know if there is a way to find a deleted AO3 fic?

Hey, anon.

Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that you can find it, but you can try:

a) Asking the fandom on reddit and tumblr. A user might have downloaded it and could privately share it with you.

b) Politely asking the author to privately share it with you. Sometimes authors take their pieces down, because they hate their old writing. Sometimes they take them down due to copyright (they change and publish their fanfiction).

c) Using Duckduckgo. Atm I'd argue it's better than Google.

You can type "[name of the author] archive of our own". If the search engine gives you what you're looking for, then you right click and copy the link address.

An example:

Go to Wayback Machine and paste the link address.

Let's say that the author deleted the fanfiction you're looking for in 2017. This means you have to click on either the 2014 snapsnot or the 2016 one. Depends on when the fanfiction was written.

In this case, I'm redirected to:

Say that the deleted/your target fanfiction was the BCS one.

Click on it. If you're lucky, you will be able to access it.

d) If Wayback Machine fails, there's another solution you can try, but it requires many GBs of free space on your drive, some apps to download and a lot of patience.

First of all, download HTTP Downloader and install it. Open the app.

Secondly, go here and click on "Show all files."

The highlighted files are metadata. The second one contains metadata for AO3 fanfiction that was archived until 2020.

The .zip files contain .txt fanfiction files.

Now, right click on one of the metadata files, copy the link address, go to HTTP Downloader, click on File -> Add URL(s)->paste the link address.

Click Download.

Repeat the same process for the other metadata file.

If you do not have a shitty internet connection, you can directly download the files without using an app. If not, HTTP Downloader has your back.

You can pause the download whenever you want and nothing will get lost.

When the downloads are complete, download this app in order to read the metadata files. Install the app and open it.

Go to File->Open Database Read Only->Choose one of your metadata files.

Click on Browse Data.

Now you can search for your target fanfiction by title, author, fandom etc.

If you find it, consider yourself lucky.

Notice what your path says.

In my case, this means I have to download this .zip file from here:

Use HTTP Downloader once again for your download.

You'll need an application. e.g., Winrar, 7-zip, to unzip your .zip file.

Once the .zip download is finished, you can open your .zip file with, say, Winrar and click on Find:

The wildcard symbols before and after the author's name are needed to create a search with unknown characters.

Once you find the file, you can extract it.

It will be a block text in .txt format so you can copy-paste it on Writer (Libre Office) or Word (Windows Office) or another word processor in order to properly format it.

Good luck.

[sanct1f1ed]

hey just a reminder that you can download the entire libre office suite for FREE! this software is super helpful and i love it soooo much <3

[ragingbullmode]

If your sick of microsoft doing shit with like word and stuff, use libre office. Been using it for years and it supports everything

ive taken it into consideration !! for now im okay tho- im still running off windows 7 & all the software i use is downloaded off the old discs & most of the hardware on my desktop isnt supported anymore &/or ive shut it off 🌚

[tidescentralizada]

Vamos começar pelo básico dos básicos: Substituir o seu pacote office

Programa: Libre Office

Plataformas: Windows 32-bit e 64-bit, macOS, Linux

Descrição: O pacote LibreOffice oferece programas para o seu uso do dia-a-dia. Grátis e de código aberto, instalar o LibreOffice é rápido e fácil

Requisitos para o sistema operacional Windows:

Windows 7 SP1 adiante

Processador Pentium III, Athlon ou processadores mais modernos

256 MB de memória RAM (recomendado 512 MB)

Pelo menos 1.5 GB de espaço no disco rígido

Resolução 1280x800 com pelo menos 256 cores

Conexão com a internet

Vamos lá! Ao passo a passo:

1- Entre no site www.LibreOffice.org

2- Vá até a aba de Downloads > Download LibreOffice

3- Selecione o seu sistema operacional > clique em Download

4- Abra o instalador e siga as instruções

Dicas de instalação

Selecione o "custom" setup type para você poder selecionar o idioma

Selecione o LibreOffice como aplicativo padrão para abrir arquivos do tipo MS-Office

Pronto! Agora você não depende mais de aplicativos pagos e de código fechado para os seus trabalhos, documentos e apresentações!