LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.
What is LibreOffice?
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 .
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 . Recent user activities on LibreOffice
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It is open source and amazingly helpful piece of software, once you get used to, you won't go back to any other office package.
Ease of use, ability to open other formats.
I really would like to say that is wonderful and works like a charm, but unfortunately it's not true with me. The documents my boss send me are wrongly presented (docx most of the times) with a lot of problems in frames and tables. Cells are in the wrong places a lot of times, text is trying to escape from frames, etc. The most compatible free office suite is the Chinese WPS never fails and it's much faster than Libre Office and MS Office. If you don't mind that little ad on the corner of the desktop it will be a nice free alternative.
It's an uphill battle to provide perfect compatibility with Microsoft's default formats, but the latest release of LibreOffice (7.2) integrates many improvements in that respect. Could be worth it giving it a go and see if it has significantly improved for you.
With remaining issues, it would be wonderful if you could report them on the project's bug report website, with an example document, if you have the time: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/
That's the best way to get it to improve!
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Its free and full of features!
The free, open-source alternative to the Microsoft Office suite. The spreadsheet and word processor applications are capable though the Draw application seemed to be somewhat lacking when I tried it some years ago. But after briefly checking it recently, it seems that this has been significantly improved.
LibreOffice is awesome and OSS (Open Source Software). The community make a beautiful work. The compatibility with MS Office is functional. Anyway, this is a very good office suite.
Libreoffice is by far the best free office suite. Free in all the best ways!!!