Just a rant here from someone who is reasonably sophisticated at both
LO/OO and MS Office. I've had to use MS Office for work lately, and
I've run into a TON of frustrations. Biggest recent frustrations:
1. The auto-fill and other "aides" in MSO make it much HARDER to
construct formula field
Can you go into the properties to turn off the auto-fills? -
that's always been my solution.
[see further comments interspersed below]
From: Carl Paulsen
Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:04 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] MS Office woes
To: "users@global.libre
On 2/7/14 4:24 PM, anne-ology wrote:
Can you go into the properties to turn off the auto-fills? -
that's always been my solution.
True enough. But my point is it's set up to work oddly.
1. The auto-fill and other "aides" in MSO make it much HARDER to
construct formula fi
On 02/07/2014 02:04 PM, Carl Paulsen wrote:
> Just a rant here from someone who is reasonably sophisticated at both
> LO/OO and MS Office. I've had to use MS Office for work lately, and
> I've run into a TON of frustrations. Biggest recent frustrations:
>
> 1. The auto-fill and other "aides" in
Hello,
I thought I should add to the rant:
If you think Microsoft Excel not being able to import formats it
exports is bad, consider Microsoft's disastrous "OpenXML" standards.
Notice I said standards, not standard. .docx, .pptx, and other files
with x at the end are stored in the Microso
Mark LaPierre wrote:
> MS is lost in the concept of making all interfaces look the same on
> Windows Phone, Surface, and desktop. MS Office 2013 totally ignores the
> setting and scheme that you have on your desktop. I'm talking serious
> eye strain. People have been complaining about it for mor
On 2/7/2014 9:10 PM, Carl Paulsen wrote:
The biggest problem is that if the formula doesn't meet MSO's
standards, you can't leave it in place to work on later. I've had
formulas which took me days to work out, and if I can't leave them in
place even when faulty, then I have to re-create them e
OK, to this and other recent posts, please note that my intent wasn't to
open a rant-fest. I have found myself wondering about the claims about
file structure being a problem even for MSO itself. My original post
was intended to provide one example of a case where Excel saved a
specific file
I suppose you're right. With some work I could have found a workaround,
and I appreciate your idea. My issue is much more about the way MSO is
set up by default, and changes to that are not especially apparent.
But your point is well taken.
Carl
On 2/7/14 11:26 PM, marianne-x wrote:
On 2/7
Hi :)
Look i'm sure we are all quite sophisticated MS Office users, as Carl
probably is too. I, for one, have often taught people how to use MSO
and marked exams for ECDL and other training courses. I know for
certain at least 1 other here has too and i'm reasonably certain that
almost everyone e
sounds like an easy work-around;
which would also work as a bookmark to show where you left off
;-)
From: marianne-x
Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Office woes
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
On 2/7/2014 9:10 PM, Carl Paulsen wrote
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