[WLUG] Libre Office Base

[Dan Romanchik]

I use LibreOffice on my Mac. I mainly use the word processor, sometimes the spreadsheet program, and very occasionally the presentation program. I’ve never used the drawing or database programs, but I might give the latter a go one of these days.

The word processor works great. I prefer using it over the Mac’s Pages program. I’ve rarely had trouble exchanging documents with other people. The spreadsheet program also works OK, but I prefer to use the Mac’s Numbers program. Same for the presentation program. I prefer the Mac’s KeyNote program.

The reason I prefer the Mac spreadsheet and presentation programs really gets down to the user interface. I find the LibreOffice user interface clunky, and for want of a better word “out of date.” (OK, that’s three words, but you get the idea.) It’s kind of like using Windows 98 programs on a Windows 10 machine. (I know that mentioning Windows on this list is kind of anathema, but again, you get the idea. :) )

Regards,

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On Nov 21, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Charles Dayringer <dayringer at izzy.net> wrote:
> I use LibreOffice for pretty much anything Micro$oft Office can do. Nowadays, just about any other software can import the Open Document Format documents.
> -cd
> 
> On 11/21/2016 07:49 AM, Kraig Hayner wrote:
> 
>> I use it as it comes standard with Mint Linux. When I share documents, I either make them a pdf if I want photos in it, or as a plain text file. If it is just for me I just save it in odf.  
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 11:23 PM Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com <mailto:jack.delbert at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> It might help people if you say what you want to do with it.  Particularly if you want to share particular documents with particular other software.
>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Jim Beckstrom <jrbeckstrom at sbcglobal.net <mailto:jrbeckstrom at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>> Anyone familiar with Libre Office Base?  If so, thoughts on its usability?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jim Beckstrom

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