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 Posted: Thu, 20th Sep 2012 21:21 Post subject: Office alternative ? |
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Is there a real alternative to Office ? I have a development virtual machine (XP) and I constantly export/import. And Office 2007 which I have installed takes up too much space.
I tried LibreOffice but its Excel equivalent is just inadequate. I tried it on a few heavy-duty xls files and it showed them screwed up. The Word equivalent also sucks : I opened a doc and not everything displayed correctly, not to mention it looks like bullshit overall. The whole suite is also slower than Office.
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Sep 2012 21:31 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Sep 2012 21:47 Post subject: |
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Why not just add another HDD to the VM and move Office there?
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Sep 2012 22:27 Post subject: |
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Have you tried OpenOffice?
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Sep 2012 23:11 Post subject: |
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zipfero
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Sep 2012 23:21 Post subject: |
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Ive used Open Office for years including at university. 100mb or something
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Sep 2012 00:34 Post subject: |
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Another kick kick confetti for Open Office.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Sep 2012 00:36 Post subject: |
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LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, and when I say that LibreOffice is the better product of the two, you can understand how bad OpenOffice is. 
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Werelds
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Sep 2012 08:51 Post subject: |
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The slowness is because of Java. The crapness with importing XLS(X) is quite simply because it's not Office. ODS/ODT don't work for shit in Word either; you could try uploading them into a GMail account, converting them to GDoc format. So far I've had fine results and since I rarely have the need for spreadsheets and such anymore, Google Docs is fine for my needs. It can do enough of the formulas, so unless you got something really complex in there, it should work.
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Sep 2012 08:51 Post subject: |
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libre is a great replacement for most of ms office, but excel it is not
libre can't do VBA
i wrote a lot of ugly basic code in excel - and yes, it was really the only good way to do the task, short of writing a whole new spreadsheet app
that said, i won't be going back to ms office
OO/libre is plenty good enough for nearly anything
unless i just absolutely need excel scripting features
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Sep 2012 13:35 Post subject: |
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Sorry guys, I wasn't aware Libre was a fork of OO.
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