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I really like libreoffice honestly. In my job I have to use docs but I find myself copying from libre office most of the time. Prior to that, I used to create all my visuals with office and do my graphs in excel. So I’ve tried a few different ways to do things. Libre reminds me of old school products and I kind of like that. Plus it does what I want with shapes. Which is nice when I need to make visuals. I still use excel though, for now.

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Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I was hoping your last sentence was a replacement for Excel. I use Excel to maintain the books for my business. I’ve built a really nice book for keeping track. The thought of migrating it to something where certain functions may not work keeps me paying my subscription fees.

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- thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  How much do you pay? Maybe you can pay someone to write you a custom program to do those things. Maybe in libre office, or python, or some other language with gui and plots.
  
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  - Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    What is it, $100 a year for office? Been a long time, don’t even think about it anymore.
    
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    thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    In that case you can probably find someone for $100-200 that’ll check your excel logic and make sure it works on libre office. Or python script
    
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- Beebabe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s more of a “haven’t experimented” with the alternatives yet rather than them not being good. Mainly a time issue for me.
  
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echindod@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I avoid spreadsheets in general. But I have used some pretty funky formulas in libre office’s calc. I’m just kind of curious what formulas you use that aren’t supported in Calc.

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- Beebabe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I do a lot of data entry stuff and have some custom sheets and graphs I’ve made for individuals over the years. Time, mainly.
  
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  - echindod@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Fair enough. It’s hard to learn something new when what you have works and you know it. And if what you have works, then yeah. I get that. Especially if you have lots of visuals and themes. I think libre office calc is pretty ugly. But I also don’t try and make things look better either
    
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