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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2026
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I've used their stuff for years, definitely solid
I'm an accountant. I use Libreoffice to write complex written documents and manage reasonably large data sets for 40 hours a week for the last decade, and openoffice before that. I encourage my small team to do the same and for the most part, they do. We all have both libreoffice and microsoft suites on our desktops.
It's fine. I feel like it's the humble workhorse that has served me very well for many years with no fuss.
I'm sure someone will be along in a moment to tell us all about how any serious professional uses excel. There always is in these threads.
For my own part I feel like LibreOffice is one of the great success stories of open source.
Why would they call it Excel if it didn't EXCEL over the rest?? Checkmate DORK
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Same here, i had a business, 80 employees, 4 retail spaces. I used Open office and then Libre Office. I sold my business. many years back but still use Libre office today
I started on Lotus 1-2-3
Maybe sqlite?
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I worked at a nonprofit that helped out homeless people. 500+ employees, terminals at dozens of locations, all using Ubuntu and LibreOffice for everything. It was fine. Uneventful, even. And they saved sooo much money because they never had to pay a dime to anyone besides the internal IT department. This open source stuff is imo better than the big corporate products for professional use because updates don’t break workflows as much.
I'm a Very Serious professional (inhouse) accountant. I use Excel because Visual Basic allows me to access the file system and automate everything. I don't like it, but it is what it is. I sometimes make sheets that don't even open Excel. In Excel of course. It's probably not the right tool for that, but it's the hammer that I've got and which the company allows.
I know that LibreOffice also have macros, but in comparison, it's much more difficult to program because there isn't 1000 other accounts asking the same question online, so ressources are scarce.
Also the keyboard shortcut for Autosum. Can't find it in LibreOffice. At this point, it's the only formula that I use, because I have been accustomed to entering my data in a way that everything is a sum. Substraction is a sum including a negative number. Multiplication is a sum of sums. Division is the opposite of multiplication, so also a sum. I only use Sum, with the occasional Sumif, Sumifs and SumProduct.
I do use LibreOffice at home, but do wish they'd make a keyboard shortcut for Sum.
Did you send a ticket about those bugs?
LOL. I knew you'd be along.
In my former job they kept telling me (well ordering/demanding is closer) to use MS office, I held on to LibreOffice. The usual 'we have complex documents" excuse yet no one ever noticed my rebellion.