![]() ![]() To open ordinary spreadsheet files you only have to copy the 'surface' of the other spreadsheet. The team at Microsoft were determined not to let anyone steal the crown from them – and Visual Basic was the mechanism they settled on. Microsoft won the spreadsheet market from Lotus-1-2-3 by ensuring the Excel could open 1-2-3 files and do everything 1-2-3 could do. The big compatibility challenge to LibreOffice is macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) – which is hardly surprising if you know the history of Excel. data tools like filter, sort and subtotal.Here is a short list of things you will also recognise: It is not surprising that LibreOffice is so familiar – the intention of the project is to allow people to move away from Microsoft Office and so naturally LibreOffice tracks features in Microsoft Office 2003 and copies them. ![]() Libre Office Calc - Charting options in Excel compared Other familiar features ![]()
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