Nextcloud and Ionos are promising a modern, open-source office suite for the summer. To achieve this goal, they have forked OnlyOffice.

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…

    • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
      81·
      12 hours ago

      I’m confused. Excel is a spreadsheet, that’s always in the form of a table.

        • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          21·
          8 hours ago

          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.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            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.

            • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              2·
              5 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.

            • cenzorrll@piefed.caEnglish
              2·
              6 hours ago

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

    • Saucepain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      14 hours ago

      Yep, single most important difference in my view and the reason I pay an Office subscription.