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Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9 (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

The problem I have with this is, that it won't be compatible with Marcors and other stuff - Libre Office does work perfectly well for "normal" Office stuff and even basic excel...but anything beyond that is actually needed more than another "basic" Office software.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    In LibreOffice you can code marcos using Python. The actual problem is cross compatibility ( while its possible to execute VBA in LibreOffcie

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I know. The point though is, there are projects that have countless hours of work in them and sometimes even work together with access - not only would you need to invest time to redo those, you'd also have to learn python... Which is most often the argument for a switch to Libre falls on its face. I don't like it, and I don't agree with that, but it is what I am confronted with nearly every day over countless different companies...

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