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riettatoday at 2:40 PM1 replyview on HN

This is awesome! I have used LibreOffice (and Open Office) extensively for decades now. It is my real office suite I use for real work and real business accounting tasks. Yes, I am very well aware that Calc is different than Excel but it can get nearly all the same tasks done as long as you are not tied deep into a corporate environment passing Excel-specific files around. I have also made great business uses of it in Docker too, generating perfect PDFS from templates, and normalizing document formats for analysis. I donate a modest $19/month personally to the foundation, much rather pay them than Microsoft!


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mmoosstoday at 4:12 PM

> normalizing document formats for analysis

What do you mean here? Normalizing it into ODF format? Does that limit which tools/libraries you can use to analyze it?

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