Is LibreOffice *THAT* bad? :(

[Michael Havens]

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 <paul at opscode.com> 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, <kitepilot at 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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