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Originally Posted by crich70
One thing that drives me up the wall at times is when Libre Office decides to freeze up rather than letting me enter data into a spreadsheet. I've had to basically close the file and reopen it just in order to be able to continue to input data (I use it to keep a record of my blood sugar tests, how much carb I eat and the size of Insulin dose I take). Not sure that any other spreadsheet would do better either. I keep it open and minimized when not using it.
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What's the host platform? If you're on Windows, Excel will likely behave better. You might also look into Gnumeric as a different open source solution. (And if you are on Windows, what does Task Manager think is going on when Libre is frozen?)
I know people who prefer open source but use Excel because Libre Calc just falls over trying to run macros imported from Excel. If you are someone who lives in spreadsheets, Libre may be painful if you are doing sophisticated stuff.
How much number crunching are you doing? Keeping records to manage diabetes sounds like table management more than calculation, and something else might be a better tool. (There are several open source diabetes management tools designed to interface with things like insulin pumps to record usage, but that sounds like something not applicable to your requirements.)
How often do you use LO Calc during the day to record this data? It might help if you didn't leave it running minimized, and simply invoked it when needed.
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Dennis