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spid3rmind Says:

May 22, 2012 - What about Kingsoft????

bartjoboy Says:

May 21, 2012 - No, it's too lightweight. Also has even more trouble with .docx files than LibreOffice has. It nice for some quick and dirty notes, but for anything more I still prefer a full Office suite.

bartjoboy Says:

May 21, 2012 - LO is a great package. It's just that it doesn't really work well with MS Office.. for example, for a project me and another student need to work on the same documents quiet often. It wouldn't be the first time that I screwed up the layout of an docx document. And the more complex the document gets, the more compatibility issues will show up. So, if you don't need to work together on complex documents (with WordArt, tables and stuff) than LO will work very well, else MS Office is better.

zz0rz Says:

May 21, 2012 - How could you resolve theme problem in libre-office? in MSOffice you can have lots of theme for your header and footer in your document but in libre-office NO !!!

damodgc Says:

May 21, 2012 - Wish Nixiedidme. :(

dosskull Says:

May 18, 2012 - LIBRE OFFICE IS THE BEST OFFICE SOFTWARE FOR NOW !

DynVec Says:

May 18, 2012 - I was hoping to have a 3rd chapter showing OpenOffice comparison to LibreOffice but the most that was said about the difference is some developers moved (I assumed forked) when Oracle took over for Sun, not much interest in that.

ogatobranco Says:

May 17, 2012 - Once you understand how to do stuff in Libre/OpenOffice, you can do a lot with it (without macros or scripts). I've used OpenOffice for quite some time (way before Oracle got their hands in Sun), till the latest iterations made it crash all the time, LibreOffice was really all I needed, it works perfectly for my needs and best of all: doesn't crash. Some people are unable to get used to new (or old) interfaces, hence the use of MS Office being hard to circumvent.

Drowzor Says:

May 14, 2012 - I appreciate your point of view but busting in with "WRONG!" kinda seems like you're shutting down the opposition rather than accepting it and expressing your own view :P I've used MS Office for a few years and I've not had any real issues with LO so far. Couple of minor bugs when you start opening multiple instance of the application (like minimise buttons going missing) and stuff but nothing essential as far as I can tell. I'm pretty sure you can accomplish anything in LO that you can in MS.

Drowzor Says:

May 14, 2012 - Not security risk :P I said a risk. Becoming heavily dependant on macros is a big business risk. Macros all too often break with updates to in either small patches to the App, OS updates or a complete package (say, office 2007->2010) upgrades. Macros are handy for little tasks where you basically use them as a sort cut but for anything else you're generally better of just putting together a spreadsheet with the correct formulas, rather than parsing through a macro. It's bad practice D:

faustolg Says:

May 13, 2012 - Also, please, this is not a forum where anyone offers solutions to questions never asked, I offered my point of view, and believe me the decision was made by the users, they don't want other stuff, office (even the office 97) is just fine. I tried (or forced) LO and failed, as I previously said, at home LO, at work MSO, is not good or bad, is just the way it is, I learn the "if is not broken then don't fix it" that way.

faustolg Says:

May 13, 2012 - good point, maybe financial wasn't the right word... but they handle a lot of sale and purchase data, sage is not what they need, excel does it fine for them. macros a risk? maybe if we didn't use an antivirus and we were on those day were macros were a nightmare, but even so, they are safe macros, to get data from other sheets... nothing dangerous...

Drowzor Says:

May 13, 2012 - Nothing is "wrong" about what I said, because that's our companies degree of support. It's rare a company will support individual user calculations and macros because that's the user's job, not ours. It's our practice. Formulas are one thing, Marcos are another and if they want to use them, it's at their own risk. Besides generally when you get into heavy financial stuff, you shouldn't be using excel/calc anyway and you'd be using something like SAGE.

vitormangraviti Says:

May 13, 2012 - It's sad that eventually the opensource office suites will simply disappear. These little fights between the developers is making the whole thing dissipate into the air. Much like the little fight between Debian and Firefox. Because of a stupid icon, Debian moved on to Iceweasel and it doesn't look that they will ever go back to Firefox. Which is a shame, really. Opensource users like opensource because it's opensource, for god's sake! We don't want these idiotic arguments to ruin the idea.

faustolg Says:

May 12, 2012 - WRONG!! my people work on financial data, so macros and formulas are a need to get the job done, as I said before, LO is better for the average guy, but for specialized needs, I hate to say that one must pay the MS office suite, even if the activation fucks up your patience(WAT is know for false positive on activation issues, I HATE THAT!!)

Drowzor Says:

May 12, 2012 - I much prefer LibreOffice over Microsoft Office too. I tried OpenOffice for a few years but instantly found Libre better. I've always strongly discourage the use of complicated macros and literally don't support the use of them in anywhere I work. If the user wants to make a macro, that's fine but we can't be expected to know how to fix their own creations. Easier converting to LibreOffice in the long run I feel :3

SuperTechieJ Says:

May 8, 2012 - As a final year Accounting student I'm interested to see how well LibreOffice will work with some of the complex things such as amortization and tax tables I have to deal with. It probably won't be a problem.

safi164 Says:

May 7, 2012 - microsoft no longer use prepority formats . all its formats are now based on office open xml . no 2 microsoft office is still way superior and stable then libreoffice and it is one of the reason why i still use windows

ayoungethan Says:

May 7, 2012 - OpenOffice is an Apache project now...it no longer has much anything to do with Oracle (at least that's my understanding)...that said, LibreOffice appears to be the more active of the two projects. it will be interesting to see how they compare and interact into the future

Tununias Says:

May 6, 2012 - Nobody uses Open Office anymore. Oracle were a bunch of assholes so we basically kicked them to the curb. Open Office shouldn't even be included anymore.