[ShadowAce]

Tech Ping

[NativeSon]

I’m interested in the phone.

[lgjhn23]

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).

[Dalberg-Acton]

LibreOffice doesn’t have Excel’s Date design flaw.

[Openurmind]

Thank you so much Ace. I am elated to see more work being done to make linux compatible software competitive!

[CatOwner]

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.

[ducttape45]

Still waiting for software like LibreOffice to come out with an email client like Outlook. So far, no one has come close.

[ChildOfThe60s]

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.

[LouAvul]

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[9YearLurker]

I can’t wean myself off OneDrive (with Office attached).

[zeugma]

I had no idea how far back I am. I’m on 5.1.6.2. Probably missing lots of stuff. :-)

[Still Thinking]

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.

[daniel1212]

I use Apache Open Office as well as the forked Libre Open office because I do not always like the changes LOo makes, such as removing the page borders (so i created a template with them). But it is more advanced than AOo.

However, one feature that no current word pro that I know of has is that of AutoPaste, meaning an option that will auto paste into a document whatever you choose to copy. Maybe there is a way to do that in Linux (not merely copying, or copying to the clipboard, but to a word pro that auto saves) A word pro named Text Shield, that I still use sometimes when selectively copying texts from a long document, enables that in Windows.

unified hyperlink context menus as Copy Hyperlink Location, Edit Hyperlink, Open Hyperlink, and Remove Hyperlink.

I wonder how they would change this:

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