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I’m rather curious about these claims. What specific formatting issues is he referring to, and what version was he using? Also, they claim LibreOffice is not a

I’m rather curious about these claims. What specific formatting issues is he referring to, and what version was he using? Also, they claim LibreOffice is not available on MacOS. This article is quite light on detail.

freetime2 6y ago
I can't speak for the author, of course, but recently while working with LibreOffice Calc I ran into an issue where it was completely mangling cell coloring in spreadsheet that a coworker sent me. I was using the latest version of LibreOffice in Ubuntu 20.04, and my coworker was running the latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac.
- chris_wot 6y ago
  Yup, it can happen. I’m just curious what the issues specifically were. Do you have an example document? The LO team are always looking at compatibility issues.
  - gvjddbnvdrbv 6y ago
    The problem with this is that one can't simply submit work documents and these formatting issues are usually edge cases produced by people that are doing things they really shouldn't with Office.
    - codygman 6y ago
      They should add a feedback wizard that guides a user to remove sensitive data and preserve the document format as much as possible.
      - chris_wot 6y ago
        There is a comprehensive document test suite. It is always being improved.
II2II 6y ago
While I don't know what formatting issues the author was referring to, they do exist. They are typically the product of people doing wonky things in order to format documents in a particular way that looks fine on their own computer, like embedding tables in tables. There are also features that LibreOffice supports in a different way (e.g. multiple page layouts within a word processor or spreadsheet document).
- chris_wot 6y ago
  Sure, that’s almost certain. Not even Microsoft gets it completely correct between versions of Office. But I think he’ll eventually find that his new favourite Office suite will also have compatibility issues. I’m fine with completion, but I’m looking for specific issues. It’s really far too vague to know what they are talking about.
  - andrewshadura 6y ago
    And it does have issues. In fact, LibreOffice offers better compatibility.

freetime2 6y ago

I can't speak for the author, of course, but recently while working with LibreOffice Calc I ran into an issue where it was completely mangling cell coloring in spreadsheet that a coworker sent me. I was using the latest version of LibreOffice in Ubuntu 20.04, and my coworker was running the latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac.

chris_wot 6y ago
Yup, it can happen. I’m just curious what the issues specifically were. Do you have an example document? The LO team are always looking at compatibility issues.
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y ago
  The problem with this is that one can't simply submit work documents and these formatting issues are usually edge cases produced by people that are doing things they really shouldn't with Office.
  - codygman 6y ago
    They should add a feedback wizard that guides a user to remove sensitive data and preserve the document format as much as possible.
    - chris_wot 6y ago
      There is a comprehensive document test suite. It is always being improved.

II2II 6y ago

While I don't know what formatting issues the author was referring to, they do exist. They are typically the product of people doing wonky things in order to format documents in a particular way that looks fine on their own computer, like embedding tables in tables. There are also features that LibreOffice supports in a different way (e.g. multiple page layouts within a word processor or spreadsheet document).

chris_wot 6y ago
Sure, that’s almost certain. Not even Microsoft gets it completely correct between versions of Office. But I think he’ll eventually find that his new favourite Office suite will also have compatibility issues. I’m fine with completion, but I’m looking for specific issues. It’s really far too vague to know what they are talking about.
- andrewshadura 6y ago
  And it does have issues. In fact, LibreOffice offers better compatibility.