Comments on: LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, Not Always Simple

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:30 +0000

Try WPS office by Kingsoft. It is free and pretty much a clone of Microsoft Office.

By: RobK

RobK — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:11:02 +0000

Is the Google Doc products any better? Or have you even tried that one?
Thanks.

By: RobK

RobK — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:08:16 +0000

In this case, its a matter of what works, and what products you can use thats SAFE, and secure, and will not slow you down, or make you call IT to fix. If AOO works there at work, use it. It you want to play with LO on your own time where its not as important if you loose something, then thats cool. I feel the same way about other documents and situations too.
Thanks, Rob

By: R.Ommelaar

R.Ommelaar — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:53:19 +0000

Open Office versus Libre Office: every time I ‘m curious about the performance of Libre Office and reinstall it again… to try if it can handle my > 80 pages documents. Where my AOO can handle the documents quite easily (barely no extra cache memory, limited extra processor time) the lon g documents are literally shocking. This discomfort makes me deinstall Libre Office every time. I tested again the release 4.0 of LO, again very slow performance in larger documents. Despite the extra features in LO, the more vivid community I will stay on AOO until the basic features like speed, memory-load are solved. I feel sorry, but consider this as ”feed-back”,.

WGP

By: JOE

JOE — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:22:12 +0000

Regardless to any bugs that has been encountered over the past i think Libre Office is doing a good job on updating there software.

By: Aveesh

Aveesh — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:08:44 +0000

Cannot shift objects off sheet is a bug that was introduced in Excel 2003 when in VBA, notes were changed to comment shape objects. To fix this, display comments/notes (not just the red but with the whole comment – advanced view setting), hit F5 (goto), click [Special] button, select [objects] option button, click OK to select. All comments are then “selected”, right click on any selected one and properties (or Ctrl F1 I think) and change property to [Move and Size] with cells

Hiding columns will not only NOT give error but be faster by orders of magnitude….

By: Hikari

Hikari — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:36:30 +0000

About poster, you also should report and maybe even try to fix the bug. Wait years to get a free fix for a bug in a free software, that you use for so long and needed the fix all this time…

By: Hikari

Hikari — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:35:12 +0000

Of course, intead of just monitoring the community for reports, you could help by testing and reporting bugs and help fix them. That would make the software much better for you and everybody.

As I can read, AOO team isn’t worried on adding new features, they are focused on fixing what Sun didn’t do and make it faster and more stable. LO on the other hand is trying to make it the best solution, with best features, and let community handle bugs. If community does nothing, nothing will chance.

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By: decentralist

decentralist — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:25:47 +0000

Sorry Sigmoid, but I think your mindset on open source ceased to be very accurate about a decade ago, even if the memory lingers on. In fact, my follow-up to this post is an answer in itself.