

Admit that something is lost, then proceed to demonstrate what may be gained. If you want to introduce Calc, you have to be honest about it. No dumbing down of Calc will improve this.

Most of the time content is preserved, but visual design may suffer.

Yes, there are cases when something is lost when you work on Excel files using Calc.

Better emphasize the advantages of an SUV, instead of dumbing it down to a “sedan with benefits”. Often more efficiently and sometimes not as elegantly, but it gets the job done. Introducing users to calc by making it more like Excel is a bit like introducing drivers to SUVs by making them more like a sedan. This makes it easier to get started with the MS suite, but once you gain experience and start working on larger projects, you will see that the structured approach allows you to work more efficiently and make more consistent documents. Although Open office still is free (with Oracle offering a commercial, paid version of the software with added features like technical support), Libre Office retains the original Open Office (which was first named StarOffice) philosophy of being open and free to this end, Libre Office is both free and open-source, with its code base being written and expounded upon by its community.Microsoft office encourages an intuitive approach, while LibreOffice encourages a structured/standards compliant approach to solving tasks. Forked from Oracle's Open Office suite, Libre Office is essentially the same, with a few subtle improvements that those who use either may not be able to spot unless they are specifically looking for something (for example, Libre Office supports more languages than Open Office). The means do not change the following 1 in the reference when the formula is copied or filled elsewhere. Then change the value in E1 to see the difference. Just as Open Office is an alternative to Microsoft Office (and Corel's Office applications, to a lesser extent), Libre Office fulfills the same role to Open Office. To get the result shown in the images, enter IF (ROW (D1)