I don’t think it was ever bad, the compatibility with Microsoft office is not completely their yet making it not usable to Excel experts of for some teachers due to docx support being a bit lackluster
It is worth pointing out that the only reason docx support is lackluster is because of active efforts from MS to undermine third party support. It is a interesting story actually, but I don’t recall exactly, but it goes like this, there was some regulatory push to open formats and MS undermined this by creating and making the docx (and all other *x family) open but make it so convoluted and unnecessarily difficult. If I am not mistaken they even keep unnecessarily updating and changing it so third party is always lagging behind in support and the cherry on top that MS don’t correctly implement its own format on purpose so the files are effectively broken for anyone that follows the spec to a T.
But I’ve also run into cases where LibreOffice could do things Excel couldn’t at the time.
Like enter strings that are longer than 255 characters into a cell.
I remember reading about how LibreOffice was better at recovering broken Excel files than Excel itself. It was a long time ago, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that still were the case at all.
That might be the case, but in most cases you will be unable your work due to limitations in Libreoffice.
Look I like it and I use it, but I have major issues with the sheets missing functions and the Word just being incompatible. Like not being able to put the figure number below images or not being able to keep track of changes made when enabled.
I don’t think it was ever bad, the compatibility with Microsoft office is not completely their yet making it not usable to Excel experts of for some teachers due to docx support being a bit lackluster
It is worth pointing out that the only reason docx support is lackluster is because of active efforts from MS to undermine third party support. It is a interesting story actually, but I don’t recall exactly, but it goes like this, there was some regulatory push to open formats and MS undermined this by creating and making the docx (and all other *x family) open but make it so convoluted and unnecessarily difficult. If I am not mistaken they even keep unnecessarily updating and changing it so third party is always lagging behind in support and the cherry on top that MS don’t correctly implement its own format on purpose so the files are effectively broken for anyone that follows the spec to a T.
I think Excel has more functionality than any of the FOSS alternatives, unfortunately. It’s some pretty powerful software.
But I’ve also run into cases where LibreOffice could do things Excel couldn’t at the time.
Like enter strings that are longer than 255 characters into a cell.
Yeah a lot more, 90% won’t miss any of though.
I remember reading about how LibreOffice was better at recovering broken Excel files than Excel itself. It was a long time ago, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that still were the case at all.
That might be the case, but in most cases you will be unable your work due to limitations in Libreoffice.
Look I like it and I use it, but I have major issues with the sheets missing functions and the Word just being incompatible. Like not being able to put the figure number below images or not being able to keep track of changes made when enabled.