[dba-Tech] Alternatives to MS Office

[John Colby]

Agree, VBA and office integration is a critical missing piece. If the 
apps themselves are all that is needed, I like LibreOffice.


On 2/3/2018 2:28 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> There are several, the most notable being OpenOffice and LibreOffice. The
> latter stemmed from a fork in the open-souce former, and has introduced
> some new features, such as file-compatibility with MS Office, while still
> embracing the Open Document format.
>
> I personally have not upgraded MS Office since the patches to 2007. I tried
> a couple of the evaluation copies, and saw no significant reason to
> upgrade. And now that LibreOffice has in version 6.x document-compatibility
> with MS Office, I think I'm almost free of MS Office.
>
> On the other hand, and I recognize that this reason to stay appeals to a
> select few, you included, the biggest thing is Visual Basic for
> Applications (VBA). Not to inflate my tent too much, but thanks to VBA I
> have written some spectacular code that combines Word, Access, and Excel,
> and reduced in one case (Franklin Templeton) reduced what used to take two
> persons two weeks apiece to one single button-click; the sequence of ops.
> That's the single piece of Office that's missing from Libre and Open, and
> sadly, it's essential.
>

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John W. Colby