LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.
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LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and is available on all operating systems. It is an independently-developed version of the OpenOffice.org suite.
The office suite includes:
LibreOffice - Writer, a word processor with similar functionality and file support to
Microsoft Word . It has extensive WYSIWYG word processing capabilities, but can also be used as a basic text editor.
LibreOffice - Calc , a spreadsheet program, similar to
Microsoft Office Excel . It has a number of unique features, including a system which automatically defines series of graphs, based on information available to the user.
LibreOffice - Impress , a presentation program resembling
Microsoft Office Powerpoint . Presentations can be exported as SWF files, allowing them to be viewed on any computer with Adobe Flash installed.
LibreOffice - Draw , a vector graphics editor and diagramming tool similar to
Microsoft Office Visio . It provides connectors between shapes, which are available in a range of line styles and facilitate building drawings such as flowcharts. It also includes features similar to desktop publishing software such as
Scribus and
Microsoft Office Publisher .
LibreOffice - Math , an application designed for creating and editing mathematical formulae.
LibreOffice - Base , a database management program, similar to
Microsoft Office Access .
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- Compatible with Microsoft Office
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Export to Word
- Print to PDF
- Export to office formats
- Charts
- Arabic Support
- Vector Drawing
- Multiple languages
- Community based
- Built-in PDF converter
- GNU/linux-libre
- Convert Word documents to PDF
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Mail Merge
- Export to PDF
- Portable
- Facilities Management
- Google Drive integration
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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.
In what way? I haven't had any issues thus far
Reply written over 7 years ago
@Xeogin - I find it crashing quite often on Mac OS..
Reply written over 7 years ago
Ok... I was hoping for some details since I've been thinking of mass deploying it on Macs version 10.6+ through out the organization I work for. Maybe I've just been lucky stability wise since I'm using a new Macbook Pro with 10.8.5.
Reply written over 7 years ago
@Xeogin, Strange - I'm using 10.8.5 on a new Macbook Pro too, but I find it crashing every 4 hours or more.. Very frustrating.. Especially the writer app, but also have issues with spreadsheets.
Reply written over 7 years ago
I'm a frequent open/closer, which might explain it. I'll try keeping a single spreadsheet & doc open today to test if it crashes as well.
Reply written over 7 years ago
I know it's 3.5 years later now. I'm using version 5.3 on a Mac. It's stable for me. However, on scrolling I occassionally see a line of text chopped off, but scrolling further brings it back. Not perfect, but not crashing.
Reply written almost 4 years ago
Agreed, stability seems to have improved on Mac..
Reply written almost 4 years ago
LibreOffice is mostly a free Windows office replacement for Windows users and a stable office for Linux users. Free is what brings in interest. However, as a Windows OS user, it's not as great as I hoped it would be. It's worse on Windows than what I've experienced on Linux.
I used Writer and Calc the most for the past three years. To be fair, these are what most users need in a plain work environment.
Writer:
Writer looks a lot better looking than most full word processors; even on par with Word. I also liked how the full customization of the macros and toolbar and etc. But, as a person who writes often, I noticed some problems in speed.
docx at 28 seconds
odt at 29 seconds
txt at 42 seconds
rtf at 44 seconds
For comparison I used OpenOffice. OO's numbers are (26, 24, 24, 39 seconds; respectively.) As far as a full suite goes, OO does the job faster and is more consistent in it's times. Other separate processors I've used also work a lot faster going into the 10-20 seconds.
Calc:
The only thing that was bad was when I tried to apply alternate coloring on my sheets it would completely crash. Other than that it was faster than OO.
[Edited by AWright500, March 31]
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.
Until someone sends me a .docx file with an .eps image embedded. It opens the document, but shows only a blank square where the image should be. Otherwise a great product, and as my needs are quite specific, I hope others will realise that Libre Office can replace Microsoft Office in 90% of cases and save (especially public institutions) a ton of money.
Reply written almost 4 years ago
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!
Still, i don't really see as something serious. The only serious behind it is that it is free. Hence why I use it. But. It's still very buggy, it still has poor misaligned messy UI where ribbon won't help because made the same poor way, it's still unreliable, something hanging out of nowhere, sometimes hogging CPU out of nowhere. Functionally-wise Calc and Writer are still long behind Excel. Localizations aren't great either.
Reply written almost 4 years ago
Of course it's frustrating when Libre hangs. Although I have to say that I've seen that much less from Libre both than in previous versions and from Office 365 which, even the very newest version. I found that enormously frustrating: MS Office 365 not only costs a lot of money, it's made by one of the richest corporations and it often crashes on Windows, which is made by the same company. That's a disgrace. Which leaves us in a world where almost all office suites might crash, and Libre and MS Office both do. So I take Libre because I agree with the philosophy, I've seen a lot of improvement and I've experienced less of the crashing than in the past. As for the ribbon: I don't use it. The functionality of Calc vs Excel? Sure... Excel is ahead. Whether that's a deal-breaker depends on your needs. I don't have anything that Excel can do and Libre can't, but I completely agree that others might.
Reply written almost 4 years ago
It might hangs less, but still crashes a lot and quite often. Office 365 is indeed offers total rip off price in developing countries. Business plans can only be afforded by huge corporations. Small business would simply goes bankrupt with Office 365. They should lower prices some 6-8 times down, not 6%,, not 60%, but 6 times in developing countries.
For a home, I switched over to WPS. It does have almost entire OOXML support. LibreOffice OOXML support is very limited and very buggy. Calc for me also unusable. I use tables a lot, but Calc only offer cell ranges. Therefore Data Validation and formulas won't work if they call for table and/or column. Writer also still doesn't offer separated footers and headers, so you can't use Writer with documents, as standards defines footers and headers as separated entity with own dimensions.
It's been over a year since that message. And seem 6.1 only offer a couple dozen of updates made by community. Not sure if Document Foundation is doing anything for LibreOffice now. But hope it won't repeat fate of Thunderbird abandoned by Mozilla.
Reply written over 2 years ago
Ease of use, ability to open other formats.