Go-OO for Windows

Name: Go-OO
Rating: 4.1 (37 reviews)
Author: Go-OO.org

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Download.com staffOctober 3, 2025

OpenOffice.org is a great piece of open-source software, but there's no denying it's more than a bit bulky and sluggish. There's no need to worry, though, since there's a fork of the source code called Go-OO that picks up most of OpenOffice's slack.

Go-OO sports an enhanced interface and is much easier to use, with larger icons and less clutter. It still sports drop-down menus for fast customization, but there's no doubt that Go-OO comes with a cleaner layout. It also comes with an importer to handle DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats, and natively supports SVG files. Graphics rendering is greatly improved, too, including VBA support, Mono integration, better display of Chinese characters, support for WordPerfect graphics, and EMF rendering.

OpenOffice must be uninstalled before Go-OO is loaded, but that's a minor annoyance. Whereas Flock, for example, is a Firefox fork geared for a particular kind of user, Go-OO should appeal to anybody who loves OpenOffice but is looking for something that's leaner--but hardly meaner.

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GENERAL

Release: March 13, 2010

Latest update: October 3, 2025

Version: 3.2.1-11

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2000
Windows 7
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows 98 SE
Windows 98
Windows 8
Windows Vista

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Total Downloads: 70,424

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

4.1/5

37 User Votes

A great MS Office replacement
InfoJunkie777January 7, 2012
Pros
For the average user, even businesses and novelists, OpenOffice has plenty of power to do most anything you want to do as for as office programs go. The spreadsheet program is especially good. I use it for all kinds of things.
Cons
There may be some very few advanced things MS Office can do OpenOffice cannot, but for the average user it is wonderful. This new version is way faster, less bloated, and has a prettier user interface. The "ribbon" thing on MS Office is annoying.
Summary
It is FREE. It works much like MS Office. Try it and you will say "Goodbye" to Microsoft and their high fees.
Haven't used it for long yet, but clean & efficient.
benmartinNovember 29, 2011
Pros
Easy, trouble-free download & install -clean, uncluttered look, -intuitive gui.
Cons
none yet -everything I'd hoped for
Summary
so far, so good!!
Get it, use it
ok4mi2April 27, 2011
Pros
I like the programs and extensive features of this suite. Free of course! Useful, some more than others but all features appear to work.
Cons
I had the program crash a couple of times when I first installed it but it was able to recover the documents.
Summary
I like the programs and extensive features of this suite. Free of course! Useful, some more than others but all features appear to work. Updated on May 3, 2011The program has been crashing often and I cannot determine why. It may be some installation I did one too many times as I was installing the larger program version of same suite and used the uninstaller and then installed this lighter version, more than once with updates and all.
Go-oo joins LibreOffice and will be DISCONTINUED !
William_BerzoffApril 17, 2011
Pros
Go-oo joins forces with LibreOffice. If you like the work of the Go-OO team, download LibreOffice, also 100% free of charge, since they are now part of their development team.
Cons
Discontinuation means no more updates.
Summary
Go-oo joins forces with LibreOffice: Go-oo shares much of its goals and philosophy with The Document Foundation's LibreOffice project, we're therefore supporting LibreOffice since it's inception, and are in the process of merging most of our patches over, as well as migrating to Document Foundation infrastructure. Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice. LibreOffice is also open source software which means it is free of charge.
a real good program
julian62March 22, 2011
Pros
it is free and almost like having microsft word programs
Cons
none that i can see
Summary
if you can not afford microsoft word program this is the one for you Updated on Mar 24, 2011it is a very good program helps with word
Great Program!
breevesnmMarch 7, 2011
Pros
This really speeds up OpenOffice!
Cons
None that I know of.
Summary
Download Go-OO and it automatically downloads OpenOffice first - which is very good in my opinion.
Did not install. Later software available.
jkizerMarch 6, 2011
Pros
Did not install
Cons
Did not install
Summary
 Updated on Mar 6, 2011Did not install.
Faster and even more useful! Forget OO 3.3
Tracie365February 5, 2011
Pros
Eats soo much less space and is so much faster.
Cons
Haven't found any yet!
Summary
Wish I could figure out how to make the MS Office Starter set quit being the default and make Go OO be the default. It's the BEST! I hate MS Office.
excellent free office software, easy interface
John MorrisFebruary 1, 2011
Pros
functional, easy to use
Cons
none that I've found
Summary
download it , use it
Go--OO is Go-OOD
nwbereanJanuary 10, 2011
Pros
Speeds up loading for Open Office.
Cons
Haven't found anything bad except the down load time.
Summary
Speeding the load of OO is a big help.

Developer’s Description

By Go-OO.org

Create and edit all kinds of documents with strong OpenXML support.

Go-OO is an OpenOffice. org fork that features faster load and response times, and several features not included in the standard version of the program. Go-OO's user interface is more familiar, with lots of small pieces of polish. Go-OO has built in OpenXML import filters and it will import your Microsoft Works files. It has better Microsoft binary file support (with eg. fields support), and it will import WordPerfect graphics beautifully. If you are reliant on Excel VBA macros, then Go-OO offers the best macro fidelity too. If you expect your spreadsheets to calculate compatibly, or you get embedded Visio diagrams in your documents, you'll want Go-OO.

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User Reviews

A great MS Office replacement

Haven't used it for long yet, but clean &#38; efficient.

Get it, use it

Go-oo joins LibreOffice and will be DISCONTINUED !

a real good program

Great Program!

Did not install. Later software available.

Faster and even more useful! Forget OO 3.3

excellent free office software, easy interface

Go--OO is Go-OOD

Developer’s Description

Haven't used it for long yet, but clean & efficient.