This suite is the closest to overthrowing MSOffice. You can save Calc and Impress Files under word formats and they will pass over with precisely 0 problems. Excel to Libreoffice may be problematic. Also, Calc has no auto-calculate facility, but a basic hand-held calculator is much cheaper and easier to use than Excel.

LibreOffice is indeed a great open source office suite, but I found it to be too unstable on mac OS to be of any real use unfortunately.

There are many different use cases for Evernote. I think Evernote's security practices are awful (no encryption, even at rest... multiple hacks, security breaches and data loss incidents...) and their privacy policy decisions have been appalingly bad. So I've been looking around for an alternative. Finally, starting from Libre Office 5.3 the major feature I wanted has arrived: embeding of .pdf files. You can now drag-and-drop a .pdf file and it will live in the .odt document. Which means I can treat each Libre Office file as a separate Evernote note replacement. And I can search through the whole bunch of them on Linux using, e.g. with Catfish, which will scan the text in the documents too. Brilliant!

Only with the History Master addon from Open Office!

The program is listing every files that were used on the machine.

It should be a basic function...

When I insert big image files, LibreOffice become very slow, so I have to resize images before.

The title says it all. Writer is an outstanding word processor, and there are a myriad of applications for the price of 0.

There is:
Writer
Calc
Impress
Base
Draw
Math

You only get Microsoft's Writer, Calc and Impress equivalents for £79.99! And all of this costs 0. It works no problem on my windows machine, so it is absolutely outstanding for windows users.

I deleted LibreOffice and went back to WPS Office 2014, an older version (9.1.0.4758) which was the last release before it went to a freemium product. Libre is slow as molasses, especially when starting cold. The developers could cut the execution time considerably by making the install more optional, such as only installing the writer and spreadsheet, instead of the whole suite...or making a stand-alone writer...but they've never had any interest in doing this. WPS Office, even with its three programs, is lightening fast and still the most compatible with Microsoft documents. Libre's recent face-lift is an improvement, but WPS Office still wins in speed, interface, and compatibility.

It's free, libre, modular, customizable and powerfull. Can be slow and buggy sometimes, but it's getting better with every patch

If you still have doubts about replacing the traditional Microsoft Office suite with this marvel, just notice that it's number of "Likes" triples those of the traditional suite.

Do yourself a favor, forget about Microsoft Office, etc.

If you still have doubts about replacing the traditional Microsoft Office suite with this marvel, just keep in mind that it's number of "likes" triples those of the traditional Office. No more to say.

Do yourself a favor, forget about other suits like Microsoft Office, etc.

I so wish something would dethrone the reining king of Office suites, MS Office 2010. It needs to get some major loss in market shares to actually create innovation instead of the cycle of patching UI re-releases.

I'll applaud it with all my vigour to see alternatives such as LibreOffice, Google Docs, KOffice & Kingsoft Office. Microsoft Office, while decent & has held back office suites by culling the competition through strong arming the business world into using it. LibreOffice is still in its infancy but with updates such as 3.5.0 we can see that given time they'll become worthy of standing up to the doom fortress Microsoft has carved over the years.

This comment is just a random thought: the Mac icon for LibreOffice is really ugly. Yes, it's the same icon as on Windows. But it just doesn't look right on the Mac. especially when you compare it with the icons for Apple's default apps, or even with other 3rd-party Mac apps. My biggest complaint would probably be that the icon is too big; it's noticeably larger than any other icon on my dock, and it doesn't help that 90% of the icon is just plain white. So yeah, it's a bit of an eyesore.

LibreOffice looks the exact same as OpenOffice.org, so don't expect some magical intensification of your daily productivity when you switch. The Document Foundation has only added a few small features, most of which work in the background, to the original OpenOffice.org suite (so far).

This piece of software is essentially a big middle-finger to Oracle, and though it further complicates the market of MS Office alternatives, it's quite nice and my new default Office app!