Re: [Dorset] LibreOffice or Onedrive

2017-09-03 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi Peter

> SWMBO says that she cannot get on with LibreOffice 5 since I
> got rid of XP and Office2003, and she looks after our finances
> using the Excel equivalent. I have moved the accounts file 
> down to OneDrive so that she can use the online equivalent to
> Microsoft Excel as a trial for her.
> 
> Has anybody any similar experience? Are there any drawbacks to
> this, other than the need to be online?

I previously ran into an issue where parts of Office 365 would 
run uselessly slow and consume an unreasonable amount of CPU time 
when run in a browser that didn't send a Windows or Mac user 
agent string. The workaround was to spoof a "supported" user 
agent. However, it's been many months since I have used it for 
any significant length of time, so that particular fault may have 
been fixed. It might also have been exacerbated by the old 
hardware I was using.

For myself, I would rank Excel online below both LibreOffice 5 
for and MS Office 2003 for feature-completeness, but above them 
for multi-user editing and ease of use. I suppose it depends on 
what you are trying to use it for.


Patrick

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Re: [Dorset] LibreOffice or Onedrive

2017-09-03 Thread Tim

On 03/09/17 13:44, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
SWMBO says that she cannot get on with LibreOffice 5 since I got rid 
of XP and Office2003, and she looks after our finances using the Excel 
equivalent. I have moved the accounts file  down to OneDrive so that 
she can use the online equivalent to Microsoft Excel as a trial for her.



Has anybody any similar experience? Are there any drawbacks to this, 
other than the need to be online?



Thanks,

Peter



There is also Google Docs as well, cant say I used it for anything fancy 
or for a long duration but a couple of simple Spreadsheets I used it for 
seemed to work OK


https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/

Regards

Tim


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Re: [Dorset] LibreOffice or Onedrive

2017-09-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter,

> SWMBO says that she cannot get on with LibreOffice 5

There Gnome's http://www.gnumeric.org/ as an alternative spreadsheet
program.

Cheers, Ralph.

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[Dorset] LibreOffice or Onedrive

2017-09-03 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
SWMBO says that she cannot get on with LibreOffice 5 since I got rid of 
XP and Office2003, and she looks after our finances using the Excel 
equivalent. I have moved the accounts file  down to OneDrive so that she 
can use the online equivalent to Microsoft Excel as a trial for her.



Has anybody any similar experience? Are there any drawbacks to this, 
other than the need to be online?



Thanks,

Peter



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