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Basically thats a lie. Yes Office is good in many ways and especially ease of use. But opening a CSV file in Office > 2013 vs LibreOffice that contains more tha

by merb 10y ago

Basically thats a lie. Yes Office is good in many ways and especially ease of use. But opening a CSV file in Office > 2013 vs LibreOffice that contains more than 100k is ways more smooth in the newer LibreOffice version than in newer Office versions. If you would've written anything about UX or usages or Format interoperbility, rendering their own format etc than yes Office is a clear winner, but when it comes to big files and their resource usage the newer office versions are just bad.

reitanqild 10y ago
And for many of my use cases (although not all) LO/OO was way ahead of Word at times (formatting using styles comes to mind as a place where I used to prefer old OO for years and I also think LO/OO is less prone to misread basically anything as an American formatted date.)
- merb 10y ago
  Yeah if you have a document written in LO/OO, that's true however loading still some XLS files is just akward. I mean probably due to the spec and even microsoft sometimes had bugs in their program so that at some things the spec didn't helped. like some table bugs etc. But still I don't wanted to says XYZ is better overall or so. I just wanted to point out that resource usage and loading bigger files is definitly not the thing were office shines at least the newer versions and also don't expect office for mac to be good, it sucks.
  - reitanqild 10y ago
    Back in 2005 ish I used to have access to both but still import to Writer to clean up after three other editors who didn't get (or care maybe) about styles, the export to Word again because Writer was missing some page numbering feature or something.
sz4kerto 10y ago
> Basically thats a lie. Well, that is how it worked for me, I used Excel 2016, the most recent LO (5?), and Google Spreadsheets. Around two months ago. I wanted to create a chart (histogram) from data in a CSV, with around 900k lines. Calling this a 'lie' is just bad manners, sorry.

by merb 10y ago

reitanqild 10y ago

And for many of my use cases (although not all) LO/OO was way ahead of Word at times (formatting using styles comes to mind as a place where I used to prefer old OO for years and I also think LO/OO is less prone to misread basically anything as an American formatted date.)

merb 10y ago
Yeah if you have a document written in LO/OO, that's true however loading still some XLS files is just akward. I mean probably due to the spec and even microsoft sometimes had bugs in their program so that at some things the spec didn't helped. like some table bugs etc. But still I don't wanted to says XYZ is better overall or so. I just wanted to point out that resource usage and loading bigger files is definitly not the thing were office shines at least the newer versions and also don't expect office for mac to be good, it sucks.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  Back in 2005 ish I used to have access to both but still import to Writer to clean up after three other editors who didn't get (or care maybe) about styles, the export to Word again because Writer was missing some page numbering feature or something.

sz4kerto 10y ago

> Basically thats a lie. Well, that is how it worked for me, I used Excel 2016, the most recent LO (5?), and Google Spreadsheets. Around two months ago. I wanted to create a chart (histogram) from data in a CSV, with around 900k lines. Calling this a 'lie' is just bad manners, sorry.