[Semibug] OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

[Steve Litt]

Ron / BCLUG said on Thu, 23 May 2024 01:49:18 -0700

>Steve Litt wrote on 2024-05-22 23:26:
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>> This command can be run in 3 seconds  
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>Ctrl+S == saved, 0.3 seconds.

Ah, but Ctrl+s overwrites your last backup. Bupsky gives you a series
of backups, and backs up the whole current directory and its
subdirectories.

>
>Haven't personally experienced much instability with LO.

My experience comes mainly from LibreOffice' presentation tool, and
less so with its wordprocessor. I consistently use Gnumeric as a
spreadsheet.

>Certainly would *not* advise against using it.

From my perspective, LibreOffice is the worst Free Software has to
offer. It has all the technical disadvantages of MS Office, and in
addtion, my experience tells me it randomly loses or alters styles, and
I'm a styles based author. I don't use LibreOffice for anything more
than a quickie 2 page letter.

> > LibreOffice is notorious for randomly, summarily and permanently
> > changing styles.  
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>I have had an issue with styles in the past, but that was in documents 
>that were opened by other office suite apps too,

Bingo! LibreOffice' reason for existence is to interact with MS Office
documents. If it can't do that, why use it?

From my perspective, LibreOffice suffers from the same problem now
afflicting most Linux distributions: Trying to be easy for Windows
people. Systemd, Ubuntu's intrusive training wheels, applications that
do everything imaginable instead of do one thing and do it right. Don't
get me wrong, I love Linux and use it every day, but in my opinion most
distros are going astray.

SteveT

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