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Re:Schools should be using open source software by grayclhn on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:26PM (#31561323)
For _school_ use the extra functionality is basically irrelevant. (Excel for some college level courses is an unfortunate exception.)
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Re:Schools should be using open source software by temp8964 on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:47PM (#31565102)
How do you know school use doesn’t need extra functionality? School use covers students, teachers, administrators, and staffs. And usually the choice is at the district level , which includes lots of district staffs.
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Re:Schools should be using open source software by Kwpolska on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:57PM (#31561690)
The user interface of LibreOffice is garbage. The ribbon is much more discoverable than toolbars and menus (and no, LibreOffice’s ribbon imitation isn’t as good as the original).

And if you’re talking about Excel… LibreOffice Calc doesn’t have tables (with nice styling, automatic formula filling, and using column names in formulas), and working with PivotTables requires a separate dialog box with no simple live preview.

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Re:Schools should be using open source software by hulitu on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:04AM (#31567408)
> The ribbon is much more discoverable than toolbars and menus

Maybe in a parralel universe. The ribbon is a mess. It is trying to be a menu without logic and without text.

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