here is a good example... I found if I delete cells that functions are performed on (cell1+cell2=cell3) the total isn't recalculated (cell3 isn't right). :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: > I'm not really much of an office suite user, but my experience and the > feedback I've heard has always been yes it is bad compared to MS Office. I > think Libre/Open office covers 90% of use cases and is more than capable of > handling what most users need, however it's interface isn't nearly as good, > it lacks the vbscript macros the rest of the world uses, it's > charting/graphs don't look as nice and formatting comes out mangled when > excel users open it (or when you open an xlsx). Microsoft has invested a > lot of time, money and energy into getting Excel just right and it really > is a great (if not their best) product. The heavy excel users I know that > don't run Windows keep a Win7 VM around for Office/Excel use. > > As a side note I think one thing that the Linux/FLOSS community is very > bad at is learning from what others get right. You might not like > Microsoft but to claim their popularity was in no way due to making some > good products is disingenuous at best. If people genuinely care about > increasing Linux desktop usage (which is not of any particular interest to > me personally) the right questions to ask are about what MS and Apple get > right rather than what they get wrong. > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:54 AM, wrote: > >> So I talked my brother into ditching Micro$haft and moving to Linux. >> Baaaad idea... >> The man uses Excel *HEAVILY*, and LibreOffice just could not keep up. >> But it was not lack of features or limitations, it was *STUPID* (but >> dangerous) things like cells not showing the real value and/or >> recalculating wrong. >> I didn't take his word for it, he showed me the (unbelievable) problems >> (I could not believe what I was seeing). >> The guy is back to Excel... >> What am I missing? >> ET >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > Paul Mooring > Operations Engineer > Opscode, Inc. > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >