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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by orionblastar on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:18AM (#30145721)
LibreOffice also opens up Wordperfect documents. My wife had a church project and one of the teachers had Wordperfect. Office could not read it. So we coverted it in LibreOffice.

Also LibreOffice can edit PDF files so no need for Acrobat Pro.

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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by naikrovek on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:31AM (#30147233)
I've had Libre Office completely destroy hours of work multiple times.

one example: In Excel, I was going great work dissecting raw data provided in another worksheet tab, and apparently writing formulas that LO couldn't understand, so upon opening this file in LibreOffice, LO stripped those cells out. just completely emptied those cells, and then saved the file, all without a warning or a prompt or anything. and, best part was that I was showing someone how LO can open Excel sheets just fine, without worrying. so not only did I prove myself wrong, destructively, I lost all of that work.

I will no longer use anything with "Libre" in the name out of principle.

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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by skinkestek on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:54AM (#30147378)
> I've had Libre Office completely destroy hours of work multiple times.

And I've used it (well, back before it was forged) to clean up things that others had messed up to bad in MS Office.

> one example: In Excel, I was going great work dissecting raw data provided in another worksheet tab, and apparently writing formulas that LO couldn't understand, so upon opening this file in LibreOffice, LO stripped those cells out. just completely emptied those cells, and then saved the file, all without a warning or a prompt or anything.

I've never had LibreOffice save the file without asking.

In fact I think it also usually tries to convince me to make a copy in the official LibreOffice format instead.

I'm going to be extremely blunt here and ask you to look for a PEBKAC.

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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by naikrovek on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:58PM (#30154231)
no pebkac, I assure you. this happened multiple times, to multiple people, at multiple employers. all felt MS Office was too expensive until free solutions cost them thanks to problems like these.

couldn't be the software, huh? you sure? no bugs? ok...

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Re:Don't forget Microsoft by skinkestek on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:22AM (#30158933)
It is the first of these reports I can remember seeing and for now the only thing they have in common is you reporting them.

Do you happen to have links handy to relevant issues in the bug trackers?

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