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I moved over to LibreOffice ages ago and it works just great. It
is a bit baffling to me that anyone would pay to use MS Office
given how good the free alternatives are. Even if the fidelity
isn't great, as long as the Office alternative doesn't completely
break a file (e.g. screw up the formatting or insert weird
encoding gibberish, etc.), I say it is worth switching.

Perhaps a lot of people who use office suites are just
conditioned to think that Word is the word processor. PowerPoint
is the presentation software, Excel is the spreadsheet software.
Anything unfamiliar is treated as inferior or unprofessional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwWlYdz-qhk

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Bill Gates wrote:

I moved over to LibreOffice ages ago and it works just great. It
is a bit baffling to me that anyone would pay to use MS Office
given how good the free alternatives are. Even if the fidelity
isn't great, as long as the Office alternative doesn't completely
break a file (e.g. screw up the formatting or insert weird
encoding gibberish, etc.), I say it is worth switching.

Perhaps a lot of people who use office suites are just
conditioned to think that Word is the word processor. PowerPoint
is the presentation software, Excel is the spreadsheet software.
Anything unfamiliar is treated as inferior or unprofessional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwWlYdz-qhk

It takes 10 minutes to import data into Excel, format it, and have it
ready for presentation / distribution.

LibreOffice can't connect to the same data sources that Excel can
without adding extra shit to it. Once it finally gets there, more
formatting is required before it's ready for prime time.

Biggest problem, the screen formatting doesn't auto-adjust
to the screen size so it looks dumb on a projector and requires
extra movement - where everybody giggles and laughs.
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It takes 10 minutes to import data into Excel, format it, and have
it ready for presentation / distribution.

Well it's obvious you're just a windows "spyware" fanboy. You just
love throwing $$$ to Bill Gates, Don't you? IDIOT!

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Windows Fanboy wrote:

It takes 10 minutes to import data into Excel, format it, and have
it ready for presentation / distribution.

Well it's obvious you're just a windows "spyware" fanboy. You just
love throwing $$$ to Bill Gates, Don't you? IDIOT!

If you're paying for Office, you're stupid.
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I use LibreOffice for year but couple of months ago, it hosed itself
and no longer works.

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On 20 Apr 2026, Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire- 202604.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> posted some news:20260420.232311.dc703558@msgid.frell.theremailer.net:

I use LibreOffice for year but couple of months ago, it hosed itself
and no longer works.

did you try uninstalling and reinstalling?

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