<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 I find the LibreOffice user interface clunky, and for want of a better word “out of date.”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. :) )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Regards,</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Dan Romanchik | Technology Writer and Blogger</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/danromanchik" class="">www.linkedin.com/in/danromanchik</a></span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="http://www.danromanchik.com" class="">www.danromanchik.com</a></span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">734.930.6564</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">@kb6nu, @danromanchik</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>On Nov 21, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Charles Dayringer <<a href="mailto:dayringer@izzy.net" class="">dayringer@izzy.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-size: large; font-family: LucidaGrande; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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.</span><br class=""><div class=""><p style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="+1" class="">-cd</font></p><p style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">On 11/21/2016 07:49 AM, Kraig Hayner wrote:</p><blockquote cite="mid:CAGGJJc17jcqpZ+jJ6F5p2v+jha4+H6ooTG76HxZWecvks1OitA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite" style="font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">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. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sun, Nov 20, 2016, 11:23 PM Jack Smith <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jack.delbert@gmail.com" class="">jack.delbert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Jim Beckstrom<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jrbeckstrom@sbcglobal.net" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">jrbeckstrom@sbcglobal.net</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="gmail_msg">Anyone familiar with Libre Office Base? If so, thoughts on its usability?</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Jim Beckstrom</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>