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#libreoffice bugs can be quite fun; they often have slide decks and documents attached which don't quite work. One I just fixed was from a Biker group, with a morbid slide on what members had died from - showing most weren't from biking - alas a numbered list screwup had 12 bee sting deaths instead of 1 (among other problems)

May I make a suggestion:
#Blender, #Kdenlive, #Shotcut, #LibreOffice

LOL #LibreOffice na #macOS jest w #AppStore za 39.99 zł 🤣 Oczywiście przy instalacji z .dmg pobranego ze strony projektu jest za darmo.

reason to lose ten minutes to stupid computer shit: libreoffice appears to default to UTF-7 (sic) when importing CSV files
why in the ever living fuck would you want to use UTF-7. ever. at any point in your life

Das österreichische #Bundesheer ersetzt künftig Microsoft-Programme durch das quelloffene #LibreOffice.
Ziel ist mehr digitale #Souveränität und eine stärkere Unabhängigkeit …

Ö1 Digital.Leben - Warum das Bundesheer seine Büroprogramme austauscht
Statt mit Microsoft-Programmen will das Bundesheer in Zukunft mit dem quelloffenen LibreOffice arbeiten. Ein Schritt in Richtung digitale Souveränität.

So, I was typing in #LibreOffice Writer and wanted to use the French phrase tête-Š-tête. I don't have a French keyboard, so I typed "tete-a-tete" and thought I'd let spell check add the diacritics.
Instead I got the image shown. Maybe it's just me, but if the phrase "tech-a-tete" is in the default spell checker (and I promise I did not add it) surely the far…

When asking an LLM about an open source codebase it may be doing that based on previous stuff it learnt, not so much the code you just gave it; I'd asked Qwen3 to summarize some of #LibreOffice's code and it was surprisingly good - but then I noticed it could it on a fresh start without having given it the source. On one side, this means it's misleading about how well they can …

Call to Action: Installiere in den nächste 3 Wochen je eine Alternative App: Signal, LibreOffice und Firefox. Probiere sie parallel zu Deinen gewohnten Programmen aus. Gib Dir und der Alternative eine faire Chance – die Eingewöhnung dauert ein paar Tage, aber dann profitierst Du dauerhaft von Unabhängigkeit und oft besserer Funktionalität!
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OpenDocumentText (*.odt) hell: I used LibreOffice to create a List Template that goes:
1. First Level
a. Second Level
- Third
- Level
- Items
Works well when assigned to a Paragraph Template. It's for something semi-legal like by-laws.
Wrote a 30 line "test case" document with it. Works well in LibreWriter.
Looks like shit when opened in TextMaker. Multi-line paragraph's second line start at the left m…

RE: #opensource

Teenager has just suggested some of the programs, which I was under the impression were via the browser, may need to be on desktop.
This might mean Wine I guess?
And probably some kind of microsoft office install? I was hoping to get away with libreoffice..
Anybody have any experience with wine?
I will in any case have to contact the IT support at the school I think. I hope I am not the only parent doing so with the #EndOf10 .
Meanwhile, over on the laptop, the Linux Mint is installed (in danish even) and seems to be restarting without the USB
holding breath here...
🤞
13/n

The number of different numbering schemes #libreoffice has to cope with is pretty incredible;
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/ /re…

On Nov 3rd I saved a LibreOffice Calc as CSV.
Then I kept on modifying and saving it for two weeks.
Today it crashed, and it turns out it never saved *anything* to the .ods.
I am... unhappy.

And I save even more by using #LibreOffice. Cross platform, no AI slop and no MS playing stupid games saving my files to the cloud.
https://flip.it/94_luM

I ditched Office 365 and switched to LibreOffice a few weeks ago.
I had to switch the user interface setting from "standard toolbar" to "tabs" to feel familiar, but I am quite happy now.

Once again I wonder "Do the authors/maintainers of LibreOffice actually use it?"
For example, I am here on MacOs (Tahoe) and the buttons in LibreWriter to control Bold, Italic, etc are effectively same-color-on-same-color-background, in other words, unreadable. The only time they are actually visible is when the "Dark" theme is used.
Almost every time I use LibreOffice I am reminded why people pay actual $$ for products like Word/Office365.

Sobre mi anterior Retoot. Os he contado que en el trabajo, por temas del cliente, tuve que pedir que me dieran un ordenador con Windows. Lo primero que hice fue instalar el WSL y aplicaciones comi Emacs, Age... Y usando aplicaciones que son S
Software Libre o casi, como Libreoffice, KeePassXC, Vivaldi...

I just tried collabora office and it's slower and uglier than libreoffice. I'll keep it in mind but for the forseable future I'll keep libreoffice as my primary document editor.

I don’t know what bothers me more: That "lock aspect ratio" is not the default for images in PowerPoint, or that people don't notice (or don't care) if their slides contain heavily distorted pictures. (LibreOffice Impress is also hell to work with, but at least it does not make this mistake.)

Or one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11

Tatiana Mikhaleva (@DevOpsPink@mastodon.social)
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My wife runs linux, but she keeps a windows 10 VM around for exactly one thing: MS Office 2016. She needs it to ensure that grants from her lab sent to governments are formatted exactly right, something that libreoffice unfortunately still doesn't get right.
But man, even windows 10 has so much absolute garbage running in the background. It's probably time for a windows reinstall, or to see if wine will run it successfully (or something like linoffice:

Installing Microsoft Office in Linux
Installing Microsoft Office in Linux. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

De Nederlandse overheid zou van Schleswig-Holstein kunnen leren.
https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source
Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

#FreeSoftwareAdvent I couldn't work without LibreOffice or Thunderbird. The former is a fantastic and comprehensive office suite, and the latter is Mozilla's IMAP and POP3 email client.
I suggested using them years ago at a work meeting, and since then, Microsoft tools have been discarded in favor of their opensource alternatives.

#Airbus will seit 2018 weg von der Abhängigkeit von Microsoft Office.
Schafft es aber aus Kompatibilitätsgründen nicht.
Dachte erst: Aha, #LibreOffice oder so.
Weit gefehlt: Man möchte zu #Google

Airbus will seit Jahren weg von Microsoft Office – schafft es aber einfach nicht
Kompatibilitätsprobleme sorgen dafür, dass ein großer Teil der Mitarbeiter zwei Office-Lösungen parallel nutzen muss. Dabei wurde der Umstieg schon 2018 beschlossen

Morgen ist #Endof10 - und gestern habe ich meinen Eltern die SSD aus dem PC gerupft und Fedora Kinoite auf einer Neuen installiert.
Die alte SSD ist die Rückfalloption.
Eigentlich werden nur Firefox, Thunderbird und LibreOffice gebraucht. FF und TB haben einfach ihre Profilordner übernommen und laufen. (LO war eh nicht großartig konfiguriert.)
Sie müssen dann den anderen Dateim…

My fix for MS wanting to save the cloud? I use #LibreOffice.
https://flip.it/_opJij

＂… In an 8 GB VM, FreeBSD used a non-trivial 1.8 GB of RAM. …＂
For desktop use: a machine with 8 GB should be fine 👍
Screenshots here show a 1 GB machine running KDE Plasma with LibreOffice, vscode (Code - OSS), Firefox with YouTube and four other windows, htop in Konsole, and YouTube playing very smoothly in Konqueror.
After quitting everything except Konsole: less than 700 M real memory was used, some of which was ZFS ARC – a good thing.
This is not to recommend a …

Achievement unlocked: edit OpenOffice XML in #neovim to remove an additional page Libreoffice Writer can't.

Once again, my frustration at Excel (well, libreoffice calc) is so powerful that I'm this close to just start building a whole Django project.
In this case, it's the/my inability to simply say "get the third column in the last row of the block that starts with this row and ends with "totals" in the first column".

Pour des raisons de sécurité, l‘armée autrichienne est passé de MS Office Š LibreOffice. Le deuxième avantage après le prix c’est qu’ils peuvent améliorer le logiciel eux-même pour ajouter de la fonctionnalité, pour eux et pour tout le monde. Cela la change avec l’impuissance au quotidien avec les bug de MS 365.
https://infosec.exchange/@adfichter/115382593785753730