Bug 115587 - USP: spreadsheet functionality inside formal documents
Summary: USP: spreadsheet functionality inside formal documents
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2018-02-09 16:09 UTC by Chris Tucker
Modified: 2018-03-21 06:41 UTC (History)
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Description Chris Tucker 2018-02-09 16:09:48 UTC
This is a suggestion for an enhancement that would truly distinguish LibreOffice from the Microsoft suite. I work in aerospace, where we often have formal documents containing large tables of data from which we would like to be able to automatically generate statistics and metrics. Support for Excel-like features (sorting, filtering, counting, ...) in Word tables is very limited, but at least the tables can be formatted nicely for printing. Data in Excel can't easily be presented in a nice document style (title page, table of contents, etc.). And embedding large Excel sheets in Word is a world of pain. So if LibreOffice could combine "live" Calc-like functionality with Writer-like document creation, in the one application, it would beat Word+Excel hands down. OK, holding my breath now...
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2018-03-03 18:42:18 UTC
I think they will close this, but let's show this to design team.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2018-03-21 06:41:59 UTC
Try table styles in Calc (Format > Autoformat Styles...) [1] that works similarly to Writer. What you ask for is done per dynamic data exchange (Paste Special > DDE link) and should be there even in MSO.

[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/guide/autoformat.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3155132

(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #1)
> I think they will close this, but let's show this to design team.

What a clairvoyance :-)