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Re:LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft ... by zetanor on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:20AM (#47101089)
I'm surprised at all the comments deriding LibreOffice's interface on here. It's never given me any trouble (even when making tables) and I've been using it preferentially for 20 years over MSOffice, even when schools or employers are actively paying for my Microsoft subscription. In fact, LibreOffice does something very important a lot better than MSOffice: importing CSV files correctly across locales.
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Re:LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft ... by sombragris on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:45PM (#47107914)
Agreed. LibreOffice's sane WIMP interface is a feature, not a bug, when the alternative is to use those horrid ribbon-like interfaces.
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Re:LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft ... by jodrellblank on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:54PM (#47107978)
> “LibreOffice's interface on here. It's never given me any trouble (even when making tables)”

LibreOffice Calc doesn’t have tables in the sense of Excel “insert > table”. People have been looking for it and asking for it for fourteen years in this thread: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/creating-tables-in-calc/1433

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