<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 9:35 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">no I'm not. my wife needed to open an excel spreadsheet and she was unable to on her chromebook. I opened it with libre office and wanted to put it on her chromebook.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 8:48 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Mike,<br>
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Are you turning an old laptop into a Chromebook?<br>
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Keith<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you have a Gmail account, you can upload any Office suite-type file to GDrive and open/edit it there :)</div><div>That is the philosophy of the Chromebooks, i.e. you are doing all your work on the 'Net.</div><div><br></div><div>I vaguely recall double-clicking on a .docx file on a pen drive and it opened in the browser via Google Workspace (I don't have a Chromebook handy to verify it)</div><div>Give it a try and let us know if it works.</div><div><br></div><div>(PS Chromebooks do not have a lot of storage. I'm not sure one could install the entire LibreOffice suite via the Linux Developer shell)</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Arun Khan</div></div></div>