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by newscracker 3710 days ago
I use LibreOffice (mainly Calc) for personal spreadsheets and documents, but the UI is outdated. Worse than the look, I cannot use my familiar Excel keyboard shortcuts and instead have to learn new key combinations to improve my productivity (or use the mouse/trackpad and learn to slow things down). Since my use is occasional, I get surprised many a times when weird stuff happens due to my muscle memory hitting something or doing some action expecting an Excel-like result. :)

I still like LibreOffice (Calc) and the fact that it's actively developed. It's not as bad as StarOffice/OpenOffice was a long time ago, but at the same time it is a bit of a resource hog and startup times are a bit longer compared to MS Office.

I don't want the ribbon interface to be added in LibreOffice. I just want a nice modern looking UI with nice fonts and support for older MS Office (2003 style) keyboard shortcuts.

(The newer MS Office keyboard shortcuts after the advent of the ribbon are horrendous. Every new version loses some more older, quicker shortcuts.)