#OpenOffice vs #LibreOffice vs ??
I've been using Google Docs for composing and managing resumes and cover letters. It's quick and easy to edit, but I don't love the feel of the finished product. #LaTeX gives me a ton of control, but adds more friction during revisions.
What are you going with for word processing these days?
It seems clear to me that the embarrassment lands squarely on the tech media, who should be far better at communicating "#OpenOffice is not what you're looking for, use #LibreOffice @libreoffice instead". That's firmly within the tech media's job.
The job of @TheASF lies primarily in maintaining software. Let them maintain whatever software, for as long as people want it maintained.
Regarding OOo vs LOo, it's not so much a matter of opinion, but a demonstrable fact that OpenOffice has been essentially abandoned and has not had a significant release in over a decade (while #LibreOffice, the successor, has had over 23+ major releases since then).
Apache's #OpenOffice is not only buggier & less featureful, it's also considered a security risk to be using it.
The chart at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffi… and comparison at openhub.net/p/_compare?project… show the staggering difference
My Apple Card flagged the renewal to Microsoft 365 as fraud. Not kidding. But then again the AC flags a lot of stuff as fraud (Pro tip DO NOT rely on this card for travel) and it's normally annoying as hell but this time it reminded me to just cancel and use OpenOffice. I only edit one spreadsheet, and that only because Tableau won't read numbers files.
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Edit2: Solved! Thanks everyone!
#Blind #Microsoft #excel users and others who, for whatever reason, only use the keyboard, NOT THE MOUSE: How the hell do I tell Excell to continue a pattern in a column without selecting it and clicking on the bottom left side of the screen or whatever?
Let's say I have a column with 1 in A1, 2 in A2, 3 in A3, so forth, and want that to go on for 150 cells or so. How the hell do I do it? Because I know I used to know, but I cannot find it.
It's not control+d. That just fills the whole column with 1's. It's not copy-paste; that does adjust properly for formulas, but for this, it doesn't. There is surely an option somewhere in the menus, but I cannot find it.
Alternatively, I'd also be happy to learn of ways to do this in #OpenOffice #Calc, so long as they are keyboard-only and accessible. LibreOffice doesn't work all that well here, at least Writer doesn't, but I could double-check if that extends to other programs.
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Edit: a couple folks suggested using formulas for this, adding so the first cell would be 1, the second A1 +1, etc. That works quite well for most use cases! It would mean the order of the numbers would stay the same when reordering the table though, so if I was using this to autocomplete a list of years, then sold by the comumn Income ... bam, the income of each year's not right anymore.
Also suggested was Home>Fill>Series. I do not see a Series option in the Fill menu at all, Bewilderingly. I'll try to switch my language to English to see if that's the issue, but I pressed all the things, so pretty sure it's not there for me in Office 365. Could someone with that version check whether it works for them?
Edit2: I figured out how to get to the series option! Turns out it was there, I just didn't realise I had to select the right type of series. 
For those curious, for the Slovenian version, that's Alt +N, FI, V, Enter.
I switched to LibreOffice years ago and never looked back.
I understood that many developers had moved to LibreOffice, and OpenOffice had since stalled?
In terms of accessibility, LibreOffice continues to improve their export-to-PDF engine. They can now generate a PDF that is often pretty much compliant with PDF/UA.
Though I still use Microsoft Office for client work.
I'm curious to try OnlyOffice. I wonder how it compares?
