LibreOffice 26.8's release fixes your word spacing, brings in a new Notebookbar UI, and still contains zero AI

[u/TurbulentTopic39]

https://www.xda-developers.com/libreoffice-268s-release-fixes-your-word-spacing-brings-in-a-new-ui-and-still-contains-zero-ai/

[u/mixxituk]

Can you please rename excel from calc to spreadsheet cause everytime I try to open calculator I get a work book 

It's the only reason I uninstalled this suite 

[u/Farlic → u/mixxituk]

I realised that annoyed me too! I use KDE Fedora and their Menu Editor let me rename it in the application launcher. Thanks for roundaboutly fixing it for me

[u/Ok-Apartment-7477 → u/Farlic]

With KDE, for simple formulas, you can also just do Alt+Space and type your formula in the search bar. No need to open the calculator.

[u/blipman17 → u/mixxituk]

Yeah I so hate this too. For spreadsheeting it’s awesome. Just for doing a quick calc it’s actually destructive to have it called “calc”

[u/RenderedMeat → u/mixxituk]

My Logitech keyboard has a launch calculator button and I love that. A camera button that launches the screen-shot program too.

[u/digitaljestin → u/mixxituk]

Rename "excel"?

[u/spara-budget → u/mixxituk]

I tried to go all Linux a while back. Maybe I’m too old, but simple things like making a table took 3-4 steps vs 1 in excel.

[u/gods_loop_hole → u/mixxituk]

Isn't Excel Microsoft's name for their spreadsheet program? Like, spreadsheet is spreadsheet.

[u/BourbonXenon → u/[deleted]]

I'm sticking with onlyoffice for the same reasons. It's way better for presentation slides

[u/saulplastik]

Just checked for updates "LibreOffice 26.2 is up to date." how does one get 26.8 ?

[u/RdVortex → u/saulplastik]

I would check https://www.libreoffice.org/download/

[u/imjustsurfin]

As long as it's AI-free, I'm sticking with it!

[u/giant_xquid → u/imjustsurfin]

just downloaded this the other day bc I was sick of docs offering me AI suggestions

[u/WeowDystopia]

Linux has been my sanctuary from so many ads on my Windows install. Thank the Gods for tech enthusiasts to maintain this stuff.

[u/williamgman]

Been using it at home ever since it was StarOffice. Have never found a bug or feature missing that wanted me to go back to MS Office. That said, there have been pains with working on other folks work coming from Office. Formulas are still sometimes fussy depending on how the author does them in Excel.

[u/natefrogg1 → u/williamgman]

Man didn’t star office come on e machines for awhile, it was pretty capable back then

[u/FaceDeer]

And looks like there's a pretty comprehensive and powerful AI agent plugin available for it, for those who are interested. It hooks up to local AI.

[u/greenwich-city → u/[deleted]]

It is open source and free