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No, it was years ago that I tried in a small startup and it just wouldn't scale as much as MS stuff. It's mostly Excel that needs to be top notch or you waste t
by xwolfi 4y ago
No, it was years ago that I tried in a small startup and it just wouldn't scale as much as MS stuff. It's mostly Excel that needs to be top notch or you waste time massaging data to make the libre office Calc thing accept it.
I like Google a little bit for its ability to remote code the spreadsheet and the sharing feature, but now in a large financial institution, Excel works perfectly fine.
I suppose the Word and PowerPoint alternatives are not as bad in LibreOffice, so if that's your main tools, go for it.
- PeterRRodwell 4y agoI work on very large (>300 pages) and very complex Word documents containing graphics, table of contents, index, footnotes, end notes, bibliographies, etc. I also have to work on Excel and PowerPoint files. I have tested LO with these multiple times as each new release appears and have always run into format compatibility problems. To be fair, these problems are slowly getting fewer but they’re still enough to make LO impossible for my work. This doesn’t mean that MS Office is perfect. After all these years, Microsoft still can’t make search and replace the same for Word, Excel and PowerPoint and the spelling checker in Word is brain dead (“replace all” doesn’t, for example). If the compatibility problems go away, I’ll probably switch to LO but until then I’ll continue with MS Office because that’s what my clients use.