Give me the data in CSV or a PDF not some horrible docx or xlsx full of garbage formatting thanks.If you are reading this document in, you already know how to start Writer. With respect to compatibility, if you have to deal with other people’s spreadsheets and documents you’re always going to need office If you like it or not. Also don’t expect you can bastardise every problem domain you can imagine into it like you’ve been doing with other spreadsheets for years you shouldn’t be doing that anyway 🤣 So basically use Pages, Numbers etc but go in with a fresh and clear mind of what to expect and learn to use them. The killer is that the iOS Numbers app is as powerful as the desktop one so I will sit there with my morning coffee on my iPad and consolidate my banking spreadsheet quite happily. I’ve got to the point I run my entire life off native apple apps only now.

As long as you don’t waltz in and use them and expect them to be the same as office was then they work really well. All I do is run some finance spreadsheets and write up the odd letter so I switched to using Numbers and Pages. So a couple of years back I was fed up of salting my eyeballs and said **** it. I’ve spent many an hour on their bugzilla arguing with weird things like it taking 5 minutes to open a document if your printer is offline. However there’s a severe impedance mismatch between it and every platform it runs on, it’s slow, cranky and quite frankly painful to use. But when they went O365 I decided I didn’t want to pay subscription fees going on and didn’t want to pay up front anymore so I jumped on the LibreOffice bandwagon.įundamentally it’s like using office 2000 with some added niceties. I ran Macs at home during that time and used office for Mac. I used office professionally for nigh on 30 years including developing extensive extensions for it with VSTO on w*****s.

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