I just downloaded Libre Office last night, and I have a couple of questions.

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#1

Which version of Windows do you have?
I constantly got that "permission" issue with Vista and upgraded to Win7. Now all my Windows systems run Win10. I have not had any "permission" issues since upgrading to Win7, except for trying to install older packages that were made during Win XP days and not updated for the newer OSs.

As for the "space bar" issue, I get around this by either using two methods. 1 - make sure the image/object is anchored to the page and not a character. 2 - define the size of the space by changing the font size. If you need to move the object a quarter of the space bar with, make that "space" size the size you need by entering the specific quarter font size in the font size "toolbox" window, i.e. normal is 12, then place 3.0 in the font size "box". I usually type in the sizes got larger than the 96 point. I just tried typing in the 3 point size for my default font and it works fine. In theory you can type in 3.5 or 6.3.

As for the cost of MS Office, I dumped MS Office back in the 2002/2003 version days. Once OpenOffice read/wrote .doc files, I stopped using MS for most things. Once LibreOffice came out, I dumped OpenOffice.

I went to open source packages due to their "cost". Since there were a number of packages I needed that I could not find for Windows, I looked at Linux. Linux had what I needed. I have been using Ubuntu-based Linux as my default system[s] since Feb. 2010, but had at least one Linux system running since 2005 or 2006.

#2

Hi.
Holding the alt key down and using the arrow keys moves things incrementally. This is common in other software too.
Steve

#3

But not if anchored as character.