This is a call for those people who are missing a feature that they absolutely must have in LibreOffice, to 1) check whether it has been added since they last looked (when was that, again?) and 2) to put in a feature request if it isn't there.
Tables in the spreadsheets program, fuckers.
At this stage, I am highly confident that they accepted that they will never add it.
Are there ways of doing table things in LibreOffice, even if that specific feature isn't there? That's been why they haven't added things in the past... but then eventually caved in and added them.
I'm thinking mainly of the fact that for long enough either LibreOffice (or its predecessor OpenOffice? It might have been that long ago) would try to add all one million vertical cells as a data range to a chart if the user selected an entire column, and the devs refused to "fix" that to only use everything down to the last non-blank cell.
But eventually someone got on the dev team who was willing to do that.
No harm in asking again.
just a reminder: there's not only libreoffice, there's also onlyoffice: it's like the microsoft suite but with TABS(and it's open source)
Did I miss something in that article? I see no mention of how to disable this, pricing for cloud storage, etc.
MS Office is increasingly only sold as part of "Microsoft 365" which already involves paying for cloud storage and copilot and the like.
20 seconds of googling gets me the pricing page for their family (which I think is the same as single seat personal?) plan which is 130 USD a year for
For one to six people
Sign in to five devices at once
Use on PCs, Macs, phones, and tablets
Up to 6 TB of secure cloud storage (1 TB per person)
Productivity apps with Microsoft CopilotFootnote1
Identity,Footnote2 data, and device security
Ad-free secure email
There may still be some corner case "just MS office" releases that are targeted towards legacy machines in certain regions. But if you try to buy MS Office for whatever reason, that is what you are gonna get.
I wonder what happens to your documents if you stop paying for office.
Not sure on the policy for this (and too lazy to read through the TOS) but the usual standard is:
You have read only access to your data in some form for N months. Sometimes individual, sometimes grabbing the whole dump. If you haven't renewed your license within N months, that data is deleted (but not really).
Seeing these sorts of posts is like seeing people come here to whine about Reddit. I moved on from windows over 20 years ago. Given how much worse it has become since then, I can’t understand why anyone stays with it.
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