Whipped out the old Office XP cd. · 7:38am Aug 26th, 2018
From roughly half a month of personal experience, I'd have to say that LibreOffice doesn't exactly function the way I want it to. I understand that as an open-source program, it may be hard to coordinate and focus on a single task in development, but as far as operation on my Surface Go concerns, it's buggy enough to be a bit of a turnoff.
...Not to mention how every time I copy something from it into Fimfiction, it doubles the paragraph spacing, making it so I have to go back through and remove the extra whitespace.
LibreOffice 5 does this, but 6 doesn't. The text copying issue was apparently fixed.
On my Surface RT, I had a preinstalled copy of Office 2013 to use, which is still by far the newest version I can use.
Unfortunately, that's a special ARM build, so it's pretty non-transferrable.
On the other hand, I've got the CD and key for Office XP sitting on my shelf.
Outside of the UI being tiny due to the high-DPI screen, everything works much more smoothly than what I experienced in LibreOffice. Like, waaaaay more smoothly.
Sure, it needs a compatibility pack to open anything modern, but once that's installed, the sub-gigabyte program starts up near-instantly compared to LibreOffice. Not because it's well optimized, but because of its sheer age.
Anyhow, I'll be using Microsoft Office XP to do much of my writing from now on.
(Also, the thing surprisingly supports touchscreen functions like selecting and zooming the document...)
hope it works better for you