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Have you tried running Office over Wine? Have you tried LibreOffice? Admittedly, I don't have to share complicated MS Office documents with other people, but I
by ogogmad 5y ago
Have you tried running Office over Wine?
Have you tried LibreOffice? Admittedly, I don't have to share complicated MS Office documents with other people, but I do like using LO.
[edit] Actually, there are some things about LO I'm not sure about: For instance, I don't know how to use their formula editor, and when I tried using it, I got confused and found another way of inserting mathematical symbols into my document. Also, I don't know how good the spell-checking is, since I don't have a spell-checker working on mine. So these are some caveats in my endorsement of LO.
- type0 5y ago> I don't have to share complicated MS Office documents with other people, but I do like using LO. If you do share documents, Excel files especially, you'll quickly find that people using MS Office wouldn't like you using LibreOffice.
- ogogmad 5y agoI used it with some financial records from my bank, which were in Excel format. It worked fine for me. But these might not count as complicated Excel documents. Also, I never shared any of my changes with other people.
- BrightGlow 5y agoThe best solution there is to not send an Excel file. The most portable way is to export the data to CSV and send that.
- cassepipe 5y agoEspecially with the new HUD functionality in LibreOffice to find useful commands super fast : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOffice-Cmd-Popup https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LibreOff...
- quantumsolace 5y agoI appreciate all the effort put into LO, or any complicated and sophisticated free (as in libre) project. I despise LO. I use gnumeric when I need a spreadsheet. Or grab my Mac. I haven't tried running office in wine in over a decade, although I've realized they've achieved great things (by the games they support). I don't game, and all I need the Mac is MS Office, so I never tried again.