Post #3331874
2026-06-16 09:58 UTC
The company I work for pays horrors for the full MS suite. That alone should be enough to force some thinking.
But I digress.
I’m not a desk jokey but I have to fill a sheet daily and occasionally a few other documents. I only use LibreOffice.
When I first received the models, they’re were filled with errors and bad formatting. And printing the sheet always put out shrunk version of the document, hard to read. I got printed copies along with the digital files, “in case I couldn’t open the files”.
My spreadsheet jailbroke the document, allowing me to rectify the errors and the prints come out using the entire sheet, with better end results than the official version.
Someone, very well paid, is wasting a lot of money.
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@87Six@lemmy.zip 2026-06-16 10:26
What’s most interesting and baffling to me is that most people think libreoffice “breaks” things. But so far, every time I looked into it, libreoffice “breaking something” usually flows like this: Excel implements some functionality in non-standard ways. Calc / libreoffice goes to apply the functionality using the correct, standard way. Sheet is now “broken”, aka not with the expected data. I get yelled at for having dared to use Calc to copy paste some data in a file without even touching scrips or pivot tables or whatever the hell. Every. Single. Fucking time. I got to a point where I tell them to wank off if they ask me to do something and I don’t have easy access to Windows.