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Posted - Feb 28 2017 : 8:24PM
Once upon a time there were a few good alternatives to Excel, Word, Access, and whatever other crap MS bundles along as Office.
I'm mainly interested in alternatives to Excel. Are there any that are any good? My experience with Google docs leaves me tepid, at best.
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Posted - Feb 28 2017 : 8:43PM
OpenOffice and LibreOffice are the obvious suggestions. I've used both in the past but it's been years.
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Calc is the OpenOffice version of Excel.
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Last one I used was LibreOffice, but its been a while. It worked fine for what I needed.
 
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I still use an old version of OpenOffice. I think 4.1. It does everything I ever tried to do in Excel.
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Thank you everyone. I'll check it out.
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Posted - Mar 12 2017 : 8:22AM
Just curious, why? I love Google's "office" suite.
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^ I struggle with it. I'm so used to Excel that when I try to do something that doesn't work in Google's version, it irritates me. That's my fault, not theirs, but it doesn't make me feel any better.
That and I think it lags. I'm used to entering something in a cell and getting a mostly instantaneous response (like moving to the next cell), whereas Google's seems to ease on over at a more stately pace. It reminds me of when I worked in an office in the 1980s--we had these great desktop printing calculators. You could type furiously and they'd keep up with you. But mine died and its replacement with a low-end piece of crap that lagged terribly, and it was off-putting because you'd be typing at a certain speed but the thing is printing at a slower speed that's out of sync with your hand, and the feedback would throw you off. You had to purposely slow way down to make it work, and it felt like slogging through mud.
The Google version isn't that slow but the net result is the same.
I haven't tried the other Google products. Most of what I do is in MS Access or Excel, and Excel more than Access.
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^ I hear ya. It works faster if you use it offline but I do love the constant saving while working online (since losing power/internet is a regular thing around here.)
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