Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Office woes

On 02/07/2014 02:04 PM, Carl Paulsen wrote:
> 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.

Have you seen MS Office 2013 yet?  They have removed all the color from
the ribbon and menu bars.  Everything is white background with quite
light gray icons.  Even the scroll bar is difficult to find.

MS is lost in the concept of making all interfaces look the same on
Windows Phone, Surface, and desktop.  MS Office 2013 totally ignores the
setting and scheme that you have on your desktop.  I'm talking serious
eye strain.  People have been complaining about it for more than a year
but MS says they have no plans to change it.

LibreOffice is so much better in many respects.

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