It’s based on Debian, after all. No surprises there.
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LibreOffice components (Calc, Base, Writer, etc.) report version 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u9.
Software Manager reports LibreOffice (system pkg) available at version 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u9 for all of the LO components. No Flatpak version for the components.
But it does show a Flatpak version 25.8.2.2 for the entire suite.
What would happen if I install the Flatpak version? Do I have to remove the system package(s) first, or does the Flatpak install take care of that?
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Isn’t it major.minor.patch?
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Interesting. I never had such effects with any OS and printer I used.
As @nevj mentioned, not the best idea. I never had luck with this “solution”, I’ll never try it again.
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Without knowing any details, I assume this is more an issue of your font than of calc.
Out of curiosity, what font and which date format?
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That is what your document says.
So I stand corrected, it os 6 minor versions
Thanks. We cant get loose with details.
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Sorry for falling into teacher mode. 
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If you install the flatpak version without removing the system installed one first, you’ll have two libreoffice installs showing up, both perfectly functional.
Flatpaks are stored in a different place than normal packages. Basically, the flatpak version runs in a container.
NOTE: the flatpak version only comes with English dictionaries and hyphenation rules.
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This is always a sticking point for design of publication or posters but would not have thought an issue with a spreadsheet
On origin on the Mac for desktop publishing you had to buy each typeface and then suitcase it to go to the printer who then used it to do the impression by the thousands
On windows we had TrueType or one of several other suppliers to get the WYSIWYG but not sure now if that comes in to play. Not installed a font for Linux just use the offered
But you can use
I don’t think it’s a Hibernate problem. The documentation for the shutdown command says it does a full shutdown. The /h switch puts it into hibernate mode, which is not what I’m doing.
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So, when I want to open a spreadsheet, would I get a prompt to choose the flatpak version or the system package version?
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It looks to me that it’s more than 7 Major versions behind. My Windows version is 25.8.2.2, same as the Flatpack version. But the LMDE system package vesion is 7.4.7… This looks like 18 Major versions behind!
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I’m using the MS-core fonts. They just don’t look the same as the true MS fonts on Win10. But I can get past that.
The date format I choose to use (in Excel) is entered as 24Oct25, and Excel reformats it correctly as 24-Oct-2025. LO Calc can’t do that, but OnlyOffice can.
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I think that is the version number of the whole of LibreOffice… the 7.4.7 is one of the components.
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What does it offer ?
Is there not a option to create your own custom ?
What language and number format have you selected in your linux system, and also in lobre office general settings ?
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I actually do not know. It would be nice if it did. What do they say on the LMDE forums?
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Indeed, LO Calc doesn’t recognize an input 24Oct25 as a date. You have to use numeric elements and a separator like “.”
Using 25.10.25 works.
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Would it also be possible to use dashes between the date numbers like: 20-10-2025?
EDIT: YES, it does!
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Yes, you and Paul are correct in what you have said.
However, my point is that, unlike Excel and OnlyOffice, there is no way to be able to enter a date in my preferred format (e.g. 20oct25) and have it recognised as a date and reformatted automatically as 20-Oct-25. It simply remains as a string, and not a number(date).
The Format Cells does not provide an option like ddmmmyy or dd-mmm-yy
So I can’t work the way I have done for many years. I find it awkward, slow and unnecessary to have to enter the . or - character to separate the date parts.
I’ll stick with OnlyOfice for spreadsheets.
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You can always write a function to do what you want.
Because a spreadsheet has a programming language, it can do anything … it is just a matter of writing a program.
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