[libreoffice-users] MS Office woes

Just a rant here from someone who is reasonably sophisticated at both 
LO/OO and MS Office.  I've had to use MS Office for work lately, and 
I've run into a TON of frustrations.  Biggest recent frustrations:

1. The auto-fill and other "aides" in MSO make it much HARDER to 
construct formula fields in Excel.  And if I get a formula wrong, it 
won't let me leave it in the cell for later troubleshooting (with a #NA 
value as LO/OO does).  I have to either fix it or erase it.  But what if 
I can't fix it before I have to move on to other things?

2.  The "smart" text select system, which tries to anticipate what you 
want to select, forces me to select the period of the previous sentence 
when trying to move a sentence to a new location.  I used to be able to 
de-select the period by selecting the text from the end to the 
beginning, then moving the cursor back off of the period toward the 
sentence I want to move.  Not working right now.

3.  Biggest frustration (and I've heard talk of this but not experienced 
it until last few days) - I've been saving a ton of small spreadsheets 
as CSV to move into a database that requires CSV file types.  But if I 
have to open them to re-edit, about half of them say they are the 
"wrong" file type (extension is .csv, but Excel thinks they are SYLK).  
They open fine, but Excel, which moments before had saved the file as 
CSV, now thinks it's SYLK.  HTF does excel NOT know its own file type?

Rant done.  Just thought I'd share specific frustrations with LO users.  
To be fair, there are a few minor things I've appreciated in MSO, but 
the frustrations are legion.
--

Carl Paulsen

Dover, NH 03820


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