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No, I tried the original Open Office[^] from which the Apache variant was derived (among others)
It's entirely possible that that version is good - but that's part of the problem with OS software: you don't know if a variant is any good, and anyone can create a variant!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Agree that original version was not good.
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Really? Every accountant tried to beat me after I have installed it for them.
Not so compatible with Excel. First, the Apache edition mangles the date formats on open. May not brother you, if you use the American date format. It kills the Hungarian/ANSI one. It is slow to start. Many use Excel to format printed tables, it rarelly hits the mark after conversion. I assume it continuously converts between inches and centimeters. Range selection usually moves the range instead of select part of it if I try to modify the range.
CSV conversion is better, and I like the formula editor more than the Excel one (usually less selection movement), and the pro list ends here for me.
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Fortunately I'm not an accountant so no such troubles for me 
For me, that suite is good. I have used both word & excel from that suite for many works & it's fine. I didn't face such issues as didn't involve into things which you have mentioned. While saving I use .doc & .xls format instead of default format. It supports .docx & .xlsx formats too which old MS office versions don't.
Possibly you could solve these issues by using their forums.
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Unfortunately, their forums in Hungarian run by university students, they are dead in the Summer.
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OG, what's your experience/opinion about open source toolkits (vs. products)? IOW, would you consider (or do you use) JSON .NET, SQLite, PDF Sharp, etc?
/ravi
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Some of it is worth using - that'e the whole problem with OS software: some of it is good but you can spend far, far too much time finding out which is which! 
SQLite is good (and I have started looking at it, since it is the default standard for Android storage).
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Seems to me this poll is a bit biased... I had to look pretty hard for the No option.
I've seen Open Source software that stinks and I've seen proprietary software that stinks.
Ultimately both are made by developers and developers make mistakes.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Professionally the company wants a target if the tool foobars so vendor tools are preferred.
Personally, I have never even considered the difference, use the first one you find that does the job adequately. I don't have the time nor inclination to text/compare tool sets.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Apart of being cheaper and being able to mod it by ourselves, it's typically better to get something you've paid for.
PS: oh, and I won't let this opportunity to pass without saying that CListCtrl has never been open source as bacon itself and both are perfectly nice products. 
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Joan Murt wrote: CListCtrl has never been open source as bacon itself and both are perfectly nice products.
Indeed, and so is Liquid Nitrogen!
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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