Final few days of the Month of LibreOffice! And you can get a sticker pack by simply using the hashtag #LibreOffice and telling the world why you love the suite 🥰
@libreoffice I love #LibreOffice for the ease of use, the richer features, the consistent media alignment and reliable SVG support, open document format, easy to install, easy to distribute, most consistent multi-platform experience, great documentation with real-world examples, helpful community and there's no stupid subscription! I prefer donating and have several times. Going to again later this week.
Thanks LibreOffice team! This is great software I never want to be without!
@ellabellafull save for the parts related to it being a gratis software, my experience is quite the opposite. When you say richer features, what are you comparing it to and what features do you mean?
@Bindestriche The CSV opening workflow is nice. Calc goes straight to the data import dialog. Other spreadsheet apps first open in the default view and then you have to dig to find the data tab/submenu.
I find the handling of full page bleeds to be smoother and have more reliable anchoring than other apps like Word.
The SVG setting and cropping from within Writer is so good.
The PDF exporting from Writer produces more consistent layouts than I get with Word or Wordperfect.
@Bindestriche Check my pins for the PDF of Ethan Winer's book. That project was done in Writer + Calc + Inkscape. Turned out really nice. It was a joy to put together.
@Bindestriche What trouble have you had? Find some bugs to report?
@ellabellafull there is no way to search for functions like in windows, impress has none of the autoalign features, writer randomly crashes. Unfortunately, I can not make it crash reliably, so no bug report. Also, calc can't open 100mb CSV even with 32gb of ram. Don't get me wrong it's still my goto sofware, I don't like the idea that a company could lock me away from my docs any day without warning.
@ellabellafull I really would enjoy collapsible headlines also.
@Bindestriche Eek! I’ve been lucky so far somehow then, opening up 70MB CSVs in Calc. I’m using a mid-range Dell laptop with 16gb ram running Windows 11 so it doesn’t seem like a memory issue.
Do you have a large number of columns? Mine tend to only be 10 or so, so the data size is mostly row count.
@Bindestriche I’d like to learn more about function searching. You mean you search for a string pattern of “=SUM”?
I think I see what you mean. I just made two workbooks, one in Excel, other in Calc, and did some cols with values and then a couple =SUM() functions.
Then I went CTRL+F and searched for string “SUM” in both apps. Excel jumped to where the function was located. Calc couldn’t find it.
Looks like a feature gap!
@Bindestriche I admit to having never used Impressed and I see what you mean about the missing alignment guides. Sure, I can select a group of objects and right click to align or distribute, but the visual cues would definitely be fewer steps.
There is a grid alignment feature at least.
@libreoffice is that a requested and planned feature for a future release? Alignment guides during mouse drag? Or is it there and we’re not triggering it somehow?
@ellabellafull @Bindestriche Hi! You can check to see if there's an enhancement request already on https://bugs.documentfoundation.org – And if not, add one. Of course, our community has very limited resources though, so to get a feature more quickly, you can give us a hand! 💪
@Bindestriche *Impress (I said Impressed haha — typo)
@ellabellafull Thanks so much for your donations! 😊