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Big update from our Documentation team – the #LibreOffice 25.2 user guides are now available! This is fantastic work, driven primarily by volunteers: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/01/%f0%9f%93%a3-the-new-libreoffice-25-2-user-guides-are-here/ #foss #OpenSource

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So, I'm trying to switch over to #LibreOffice on a Windows 10 operating system, using the Portable version of LO, not the installed version, and my em dashes are not showing up as em dashes. I type, dash dash dash, altogether, and it still does not transform into a proper em dash.

I tried to fix this with AutoCorrect, but even after I put the, * after it, it sill does not transform.

Any ideas on how to make the AutoCorrect work?

I'm also stunned at how much it crashes, Like, no really! Especially when I am editing AutoCorrect entries. It freezes and I am forced to close the program and then recover documents.

I've also had it crash several times when editing a document---a lengthy blog post.

Honestly? I hate Microsoft, but it's inhibiting behavior such as this that make me understand why people stick with Microsoft Word.

I'm not giving up on LO by any means. I will just never badger someone using MS Word again, especially since I've seen how buggy LO is.

On the bright side, LO is incredibly fast if I am just typing a messy first draft.

Say hello to Neil Roberts, new #LibreOffice developer focusing on scripting support 👋 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/29/say-hello-to-neil-roberts-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-scripting-support/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

It says something about how miserable working with Windows and MS Word is for me that I chose to work around a bug that SHOULD make #LibreOffice under #Linux impossible for my work rather than resort to the functional Windows 11 computer that sits 60 cm to my left.

Specifically, any typing in Korean input while tracking changes in Linux/LibreOffice Writer causes LO to crash, meaning I really can't and shouldn't use it for my current assignment which involves adding tracked changes in Korean. However, it's such a nightmare to use Windows/Word, which is theoretically fine for this work, I chose violence — specifically, to copy-and-paste text into LO with track changes on. Need to add just a single character? Can't type it directly into the document, need to go through the text editor and copy-paste. How could this be happening? Will it ever be fixed? Fuck if I know, I hate everything at this point but it seems I hate Microsoft products a tiny bit more than everything else.