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LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts
The Document Foundation (TDF) recently announced the release of LibreOffice 26.8, and while it packs many new features, its highlight is the lack of any AI integration. This is quite the opposite of what Microsoft has been doing with its Office suite, but the tale of the disagreements between these two entities is as old as time itself, so nothing surprising. Now, TDF has explained why it cannot display some fancy charts that Microsoft Office can visualize without a problem.
TDF says that while LibreOffice 26.8 has the ability to import and export certain chart types present in Microsoft Office OOXML files like the box-and-whisker plot, pareto chart, funnel, radial, treemap, and waterfall, it does not display these charts or allow users to edit them. For now, the software just informs the user about the presence of the unsupported chart type, preserves the existing definition, and rewrites it back to the file when it is saved.