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Brass Contributor

Apr 02, 2021

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Inserting a libreoffice calc spreadsheet, not an Excel spreadsheet

I know this is odd to say this in a Microsoft forum, but I want to get rid of using Excel altogether (too expensive for a private use). One alternative is Libreoffice calc, but how do you insert ...

hansleroy
Apr 05, 2021
Hi,
Yes, of course you can. That is, you can -attach- a calc spreadsheet. Not embed it.

Insert or attach files to notes - OneNote
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-or-attach-files-to-notes-f11eac68-144d-48bd-946f-c42d9104b17e

I can't seem to find any onenote alternative that can embed LibreOffice. You might consider a shared folder on Onedrive instead.

Kind regards

Hans

hansleroy

Iron Contributor

Apr 05, 2021

Hi,
Yes, of course you can. That is, you can -attach- a calc spreadsheet. Not embed it.

Insert or attach files to notes - OneNote
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-or-attach-files-to-notes-f11eac68-144d-48bd-946f-c42d9104b17e

I can't seem to find any onenote alternative that can embed LibreOffice. You might consider a shared folder on Onedrive instead.

Kind regards

Hans

ppmsft
Brass Contributor
Apr 05, 2021
hansleroy,

Thanks for your very comprehensive answer. Attaching the calc spreadsheet and opening it with LibreOffice on a PC does work.

One caveat thoug, is that on my Android phone, I can open the attachment on Excel but Read only - it says "to make changes, save a copy of this file into a Microsoft Office file format". So I searched LibreOffice Calc for Android, and it does not seem to exists.

Long story short, I will stick to Excel for now.
- gremik
  Copper Contributor
  Jun 25, 2021
  ppmsftyou can try this:
  LibreOffice Viewer - this is beta version still https://f-droid.org/packages/org.documentfoundation.libreoffice/
  Colabora - https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-office-android-ios-release-notes/ - it is based on LibreOffice