Re: Is LibreOffice *THAT* bad? :(

>>     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, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com
>>     <mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.**com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com>>> 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
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>>     Paul Mooring
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