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I've been using LibreOffice for a while now - having switched from MSOffice - and it's pretty damn good! It's handled everything I've thrown at it, including a pile of Ami Pro / WordPro documents that Word wouldn't touch.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ami Pro? What year is it where you are at? Is that on the 8 or 5 1/2 floppies?
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Historical documentation!
I didn't want to break out the SmartSuite 97 CD and see if it worked on Win 10 (it was excellent on Win7, seriously quick - it made Word look like the bloated slug it always was)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ami Pro, loved this word processor back in the Windows 3.1 days. They totally ruined it when they made Word Pro for the 32bit Office suite they made.
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Some time ago I had a problem with OpenOffice, (do not remember what) so tried LibreOffice.
I could try OpenOffice again but why if LibreOffice works for me?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Libre was forked from Open some time ago, and the developers from Open went to Libre. Libre is stable and flexible and free and I loves it!
Dan
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We have used OpenOffice at home for years, but, we don't try to stress it either.
We use it for simple documents and spreadsheets mostly, but my wife did do a PowerPoint presentation with it and she was pleased with the results.
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Here at work we make heavy user of Pivot Tables, Power Pivot and Power View. Does Libre Office (or Open Office) have an equivalent? Can Libre Office even open Excel files that make use of them?
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As I said, we use it for home use.
If you use Pivot Tables and so on.. can you download OO and see what it does?
Or, e-mail the spreadsheet to your home account and try it from there?
At work, I use Excel every day, but more as a configuration tool with vendor Add-ins than as a data manipulation tool.
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AndrewJacksonZA wrote: Can Libre Office even open Excel files that make use of them?
I have had no problems with LibreOffice opening Excel files or even saving files into older Excel file formats for coworkers using the older Office software. I actually use LibreOffice spreadsheets on a fairly regular basis and I find it handles data, especially database Datetime columns, far better than Excel does. I have columns that Excel refuses to format to anything other than what Excel deems it to be. LO just does what I tell it and off we go.
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Use to run Open Office years ago but always had some issues. When I heard about Libre Office I gave it shot and stayed with it since the issues seemed to be gone. In fact, I installed it a work since it was better at rendering some of our 'old' word docs better than Word 2010.
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LibreOffice has font rendering issues when simply editing a regular word doc, where OpenOffice's text looks nice and clean. After using LO for a bit, I had to switch back to OO simply for that.
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Did Samsung get a good deal on some explosives and decide to put them in everything they make? First their phones, now their washing machines[^] are blowing up.
TTFN - Kent
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That is an explosive statement!
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Stealing for FB!  +5
/ravi
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You win the funny comment award.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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They don't make anything like (or where) they used to.
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Happened to us. It took out our dryer as well. Samsung support was terrible until my wife called them out publicly on facebook. They finally reimbursed us months after it went out.
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Samsung are good at components (LCD screens - used to be biggest, memory), but they've always sucked at end user product.
Too fast pushing new models without proper testing.
(- and if you buy their gear is seems within weeks you've got the 'old model,' and so if it breaks they have to send it away to the factory for a couple of months.)
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Washington Post, today: And, throw in zero-G games: [^].
Includes edited transcript of Musk's remarks at 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico:Quote: In an event that that had the feel of a Apple product unveiling, with delirious fans who rushed into the conference hall as soon as the doors opened, he spoke for more than an hour about a new, immensely powerful rocket, powered by a staggering 42 engines and a spacecraft designed to fly 100 passengers, or more, to Mars and even destinations beyond.
Should that be "42 bombs" ?
Reaction that Musk may not have appreciated (?):Quote: Bill Nye, chief executive of the Planetary Society, praised Musk, calling him “Iron Man,” and saying his plan was “very cool.” But he said he worried about the possibility of “breathing and spitting” humans contaminating Mars and interfering with any life that may already be there.
My favorite Musk quote: Quote: In 2002, SpaceX basically consisted of carpet and a mariachi band. That was it. That's all of SpaceX in 2002. As you can see, I'm a dancing machine. And, yeah, I believe in kicking off celebratory events with mariachi bands. I really like mariachi bands.
Olé Prometheus !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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42 engines... 42... coincidence? I think not!
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Especially as he wants to call it "Heart of Gold". Definitely no coincidence.
TTFN - Kent
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