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edg5000today at 7:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can you provide some details on the reasons for needing MS Offfice? I'm genuinely curious. What does LibreOffice do differently that makes it a problem for you to use? Personally my only complaint is the performance of LO, which could be better.


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OJFordtoday at 9:14 AM

I'm not GP but I do know it's rare to open an existing .docx in LibreOffice and have it look right; who knows what it looks like in Word after I've edited and saved it. It's fine creating new documents, and Excel/Calc is better than Word (inherent in being more structured I suppose), but it's not a drop-in replacement. I've used web Office365 when necessary though, not Windows.

sokolofftoday at 7:39 AM

For me, some complex Excel usage was not replicable in either Sheets or LibreOffice.