Cell Patterns/Hatching in Calc 7.0

[KiraResari]

I am trying to transition from Microsoft Office to Libre Office. However, there is one problem. In Excel, I have been using Cell Patterns extensively, and naturally, I want to carry forward that information into Libre Office.

However, it doesn’t seem like this is a built-in functionality, and the following Extension (https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/hatch-patterns-for-cells) does not seem to be working. If I try to use it I get the following error:

A Scripting Framework error occurred while running the Python script vnd.sun.star.script:CalcHatchCells-L-1.2.1.oxt|python1|HatchDialogV1.2.py$hatch_dialog?language=Python&location=user:uno_packages.

Message: <class 'KeyError'>: 'CalcHatchCells-L-1.2.1.oxt'
  File "C:\Programs\LibreOffice\program\pythonscript.py", line 1047, in getScript
    self.provCtx.uriHelper.getStorageURI(scriptUri) );
  File "C:\Programs\LibreOffice\program\pythonscript.py", line 417, in getStorageUrlFromPersistentUrl
    package = self.mapPackageName2Path[ packageName ]

Is there another solution for this? Or are cell patterns/hatching simply not supported in Libre Office?

[anon73440385]

Reading the extension author’s comments, there is no hope to get a fix for the extension. The only option right now seems to be to file an enhancement request at bugzilla

[KiraResari]

I’ve now settled for switching to WPS Office which has these features and the free tier works for me.