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Calc also seems to handle comma separated (or tab) files much better. Especially when saving.

YES! This 1000 times! I keep LibreOffice installed on my Windows install solely because of that. In general, Calc has got to be the best in the suite and perhaps the only one that actually has any advantage over MS (besides Draw's PDF editing, but that has no direct MS counterpart).

Well, Writer offers sane menus, toolbars and sidebars, unlike Word. Word's are a complete mess, each time I have to use it I'm lost and can't do basic things.

Writer is as good or better than Word.

It amazes me how an open source project can outperform a 40 year old multi-billion dollar app. I think this points to major corruption and incompetence as a result of market monopolization.

It doesn't though, as basically everyone in this comment section can attest to. This is simply one instance where it's better - looking at it closely, this is actually an open-source program supporting a standard open format better than proprietary software that has its own alternative - pretty common when you think about it.

Though CSV is an extremely common format. Even if does not outperform in every regard, it is still astonishing how close it gets.

> open source project can outperform a 40 year old multi-billion dollar app

differente incentives.

I guarantee the open source is not outperforming the 40bi company offering on the metric they care about: profit.

Likewise, nothing is outperforming the metric the open source project care about: developer (well, power user) satisfaction.

Also when importing :) Spent a few hours with Calc today because I could not get Google Sheets to import and handle my csv correctly.

Much better experience than I expected, TBH. Will use it again, and probably default to LibreOffice Calc for single-user sheets.

Other than being the „Right Thing“ to use, this is the real killer as Excel frequently can‘t open its own CSV Files. Microsoft seems to hate its users very much.

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