Is LibreOffice *THAT* bad? :(

[Brian Cluff]

What version are you using, because I definitely can't reproduce that. 
If I delete any of the cells, the answer is correct.

Brian

On 09/27/2013 12:53 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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