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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by RamRodification on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:07AM (#42877368)
For non tech savvy people at my workplace we go for OnlyOffice because it looks more familiar when coming from Microsoft Office. However, sooner or later they try to open a very big spreadsheet and it just chokes completely. When that happens we switch them over to LibreOffice which usually handles it without issue.
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by bananaflag on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:08AM (#42877764)
Yeah, it looks more like post-2007 Office with the Ribbon; LibreOffice, like its predecessors, looks more like classical Office 95/97.
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by ge96 on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:12AM (#42877816)
That reminds me of switching to sublime's parser wrt a huge MySQL file, that was a while back though 2019 I think
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by shiandow on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:30AM (#42878015)
Depends when you got used to office probably. To me Libreoffice looks more like office than office does nowadays.
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by queuebert on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:00AM (#42878373)
To me, Abiword was the best clone of the best version of Word. To bad it is more or less abandonware.
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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by maxloh on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:49AM (#42878242)
OnlyOffice has better compatibility with Microsoft Office formats in most cases.

LibreOffice has been developed with Open Document Format as its first-class citizen. In my experience, it can't render the layout correctly for most docx forms created with tables.

For example, this is a form I filled a few months ago for my college's paperwork: https://imgur.com/tv5GDZa

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Re:LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting by RamRodification on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:44PM (#42883392)
I'm sure you're right. Has not been an issue for us at all though. Probably because we are not really dealing with documents very much.
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