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Why have you replaced OpenOffice with a very buggy and unstable LibreOffice?

Asked by JayBofMA

I am seeing so many issues with LibreOffice Calc that I cannot work with others that use Excel. Although I prefer to work in Linux, rather than Windows, I find that I cannot do my share in my group with the tools that Natty has forced me to use. I can remove LibreOffice, of course, but the uninstall is not clean and there seem to be some configuration files that OpenOffice uses that break the OpenOffice install because the files were created and/or used by LibreOffice.

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Paul Stewart (paulbrianstewart) said : 		#1

Hi Jay,

Can you please be more specific, so we can actually try to help. What problems are you experiencing? I am also using LibreOffice and am having no hassles, so we need to know the exact details of what the problem is please.

Let us help you.
Thanks
Paul

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JayBofMA (jayburrill) said : 		#2

Thees issue are all related to sharing XLSX with others.... One such file was sizable, 1.5MB or so, with VLOOKUPs to other sheets in the workbook.

When trying to paste header rows from one file to another, the pasted rows overwrite those in the new sheet. 8-10 rows with 30-40 columns were being pasted, and overwrote existing rows outside of the selected row to which you I was pasting, rather than inserting the rows and pushing existing content down.

Large workbooks cause garbled row numbers, column letters and prevent the display of sheet tabs. The column labels overwrite the first row of the sheet in this case. Tabbing from Column A to Column B, the text of Row 1 in Column A is overwritten by the column label "A", and the content of Row 1 in Column B, which had shown "B", now shows the content in that cell. But you move to column C and the behavior follows like a waterfall.

You scroll down the list of rows, and the analog happens for the Row labels. The Row label numbers overwrite the content of the cell in Column A of that row; tricking back and forth as you scroll up or down.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Just uninstall libreoffice and install openoffice...

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Arbiel Perlacremaz (arbiel-perlacremaz-g) said : 		#4

To try to answer your question "Why have you replaced OpenOffice with ..... LibreOffice", I remind you that Oracle has acquired Sun last year.

So, read a little bit about Oracle's policies against opensource software and I'm sure you will understand the situation.

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