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Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ (www.heise.de)
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Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office.

The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub.

While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot..

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

that downvoter really could have instead done something useful and explain what "format as table" is

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A table in Excel will have a name that can be referenced. It will also automatically grow larger when you type in the row under the last row. You can have multiple tables within a sheet. It comes with extensive filters. In LibreCalc you can only set filters but everything else remains static. It's literally the most used thing in Excel.

[–] recursivethinking@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

You just described the basic functions of a database. People are building a databases in spreadsheets. That's not a reason to keep using Excel, that's a reason to have an intervention lol

Edit: this is halfway tongue in cheek. Trying to get office workers to use more and different tools partway through their careers is unfortunately unviable in many industries.

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

I think office workers would love better tools. The problem is that most programs need to be approved by IT

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 points 18 hours ago

The workflow to set up some basic calculations with ranges formatted as tables is just much quicker. I believe that's why Excel keeps winning unfortunately. I just tried doing some basic things in LibreCalc and it was very cumbersome unfortunately. At home I don't mind this, but at work I'd be pissed if I'd lose that functionality. It would seriously hold me back.