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Particularly Word and Excel?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Collabora has a quit well working Android APP https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-office-android-ios/

And thats basically libre office

[–] TheBat 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Huh. Never heard of this one before.

[–] Orbituary 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's why you're asking, isn't it?

[–] TheBat 5 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Colabora is pretty much the only real option.

There are others, but if you're looking to move away from Microsoft, putting your time into an even sketchier company like is behind WPS isn't likely going to be an option. It works well, but it's not good enough to deal with bs when colabora works just as well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice has an Android version.

[–] TheBat -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why isn't this mentioned on official OpenOffice site?

Guess I'll try both that and Collabora.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because OPENOffice and ONLYOffice are different things.

[–] TheBat 10 points 6 months ago

That's why I can't subscribe to openfans.com? smh my head.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OpenOffice and OnlyOffice aren't related. OnlyOffice is way closer to MS Office in look and feel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Under the hood it's also way more similar: LibreOffice uses the odt format internally (and converts docx to it on the fly, sometimes leading to some formatting weirdness). OnlyOffice on the other hand uses docx internally, meaning better compatibility with MS Office (but also some weirdness with odt files).

(I've used docx and odt as placeholders for all the other formats here, like pptx, xlsx, etc.)

[–] David_Eight 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Docs and Sheets are Googles alternatives if that's what your asking. I'm sure there's others though.

[–] TheBat 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah I'm looking for something like LibreOffice.

[–] MargotRobbie 3 points 6 months ago

Google Docs, I guess?

Not really a big fan of them though.

[–] Paragone 0 points 6 months ago

AndroOffice, or whatever it's called, is a port of LibreOffice to Android.

It's a little cumbersome ( use it on a big tablet, not on a little phone ), but it's got the capability that nothing-else has.

I agree with people who hate the UI, on mobile the desktop UI's .. not a wise choice..

.. but if you're using a bluetooth keyboard, it's much better.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=androoffice&c=apps

If you want real spreadsheets, it seems the best option around.

I'm presuming its Word equivalency is similar.

I've tried multiple alternatives for spreadsheets, & for me, nothing else came close.

Now, however, I think that using Julia programming, instead of spreadsheets, would make everything in the whole world work better.

: P