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Don't know how OO Calc compares to Excel today, but I stopped using it after having an unfixed issue(1) open for a few years that made it impossible to produce a simple line graph with more than about 2000 points without slowing down the program to a halt, whereas Excel didn't even break a sweat.

These are the limitations of Excel alternatives. They look nice on the outside, but fail to understand that users don't use them just for the simple stuff. It is well known that Excel is what really powers many companies, and these are often absurdly complex.

(1) OO Calc insisted on drawing an x-axis label for every single point in a graph, on every redraw.



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