Posted on 01/30/2020 8:05:33 AM PST by ShadowAce
Tech Ping
I’m interested in the phone.
I’ve been using Office Libre for years on my OSX platforms. I’ve always liked it....works well. It gives the option to save files as a Microsoft Office file (for sharing with others that don’t have Libre).
LibreOffice doesn’t have Excel’s Date design flaw.
Thank you so much Ace. I am elated to see more work being done to make linux compatible software competitive!
I have numerous Word VBA macros and Excel custom functions (for Office 2010) that I wonder whether they would work with LibreOffice. The support for Office 2010 end this October 2010, so I need to decide which direction to go. Office Home & Student 2010 was nice in that it offered three licenses per purchase, allowing us to install it on two PCs and a laptop. Now, it is a single license per purchase. Plus, we now have a couple of our older computers with Linux Mint installed.
^October 2020
Still waiting for software like LibreOffice to come out with an email client like Outlook. So far, no one has come close.
I’ve been using OpenOffice for years. My spreadsheet needs are pretty basic so I haven’t felt the need to explore further. But I’m definitely going to this if I start having problems with OpenOffice.
It might be worth checking out the Opera email client. Last time I used it, it made more use of tags than it did folders to organize emails. which I consider a big plus.
It also had great filtering / auto-tagging features.
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I use it at work on a Linux VM. My company doesn't seem to notice that I do not use MS Office at all--and there are times I send out docs/spreadsheets to hundreds of internal customers.
“...I have numerous Word VBA macros and Excel custom functions (for Office 2010) that I wonder whether they would work with LibreOffice....”
Very good question.
You could always download that free copy of Libre and give it a try to see if it works with em.
“...Still waiting for software like LibreOffice to come out with an email client like Outlook. So far, no one has come close....”
I just use Thunderbird by Mozilla. It’s the closest thing I could find to Outlook. It’s certainly easier to add accounts to it compared to Outlook and it’s served my needs quite well ( 4 different email accounts on it) over the past 4 years since Microsoft decided to quit “dating” me.
It may behoove ya to maybe check it out and give it a try.
I can’t wean myself off OneDrive (with Office attached).
I had no idea how far back I am. I’m on 5.1.6.2. Probably missing lots of stuff. :-)
I have Thunderbird installed and I’ve been using it for a while. It serves my purposes. I just wish someone could come up with something along the lines of an Outlook-ish looking email client.
I thought Opera’s email client was discontinued months, or even years, back.
I tend to use Writer from Open/Libre Office, but for spreadsheets I like Planmaker from Softmaker. Both Calc and Planmaker do fine on normal day-to-day spreadsheet work, but neither has done well with massive spreadsheets, say tens of thousands of rows by 100 columns, especially with 50K-cell array formulas. Certainly Planmaker and I believe Calc don’t use multiple cores, where Excel does, so there have been a few tasks where I have to keep Excel around.
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