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If don't need 100 pct of Excel's bazillion features, Libre Office is a decent alternative. It works with Excel files, doesn't need Windows (but it can run the
by imglorp 7y ago
If don't need 100 pct of Excel's bazillion features, Libre Office is a decent alternative. It works with Excel files, doesn't need Windows (but it can run there), and doesn't nag you to join any clouds. And it's free. There's very few home users who actually need full Office.
- vetinari 7y agoMy non-favorite pain point with LibreOffice are Excel tables (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/overview-of-excel-tables-7ab0bb7d-3a9e-4b56-a3c9-6c94334e492c https://support.office.com/en-us/article/overview-of-excel-t...). Home users won't be missing them, but Excel power users will.
- samstave 7y agoExcel is a requirement for the integration I want to do to another program: bartender To print barcodes and labels in serial with an ODBC connection... so libre won’t work
- imglorp 7y agoLibre does support ODBC, perhaps not exactly the same way though.
- samstave 7y agoIts on the reverse.... bartender (from seagul scientific, which their software is fantastic by the way) doesn’t support it... I have a bug filed with them where if you build a thing in google sheets and export to xlsx and attempt to connect to that data source it crashes.... (but if it is native xlsx it works fine) hence my need to install excel on that particular machine, as the bartender software can take tabular input for varying data for each sticker printed ( cannabis compliance labels, which I have now mastered) They are a great company though, and bartender is an amazing program. I suggest everyone download their free version and learn it.