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When it comes to creating documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations, MS Office is the suite that comes to mind. But let's face it: Office is a pricey piece of software. Thankfully, there are cheaper alternatives out there, but they don't always live up to their promise. LibreOffice offers up a free alternative, and we found it on par with its more popular competitor.
LibreOffice opens with a main menu that let us select which application we wanted to use: Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Writer. Each application's interface will look very familiar to you if you've used MS Office products. We started with LibreOffice Writer, the suite's word-processing application. We typed up a document and formatted it without any issues. The application saves documents as .odt files by default, which cannot be opened by MS Word. But to solve any compatibility issues, it does allow you to save it as a .doc file. We proceeded to check out Calc and Impress, the suite's spreadsheet and presentation programs. Like Writer, each program introduced a familiar interface. We were able to bypass the default .ods and .odp file types to MS file types and open them without any issues. And the Math and Draw applications were just icing on top of the cake of this capable suite of tools. Should you need it, each application includes a link that takes you to the Web site for support.
LibreOffice installs and uninstalls cleanly. Its tools work just as well as their pricey competitor's, and it's free. What else can we say? We highly recommend the program.
Publisher's Description
From The Document Foundation:
LibreOffice is an open-source personal productivity suite that gives you six feature rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs, writer, calc, impress, draw, math, and base. Support and documentation is free.
What's new in this version: Version 4.0.2 contains many exciting new features, and is suitable for early corporate adopters and private users.
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"Excellent piece of open software"
Version: LibreOffice 4.0.2
Pros
- nice clean interface similiar to that of pre-ribbon MS Office
- open source with large community means source is open and there is almost zero risk of hidden backdoors, vulnerabilities of other nasty piece of code
- complete set of office software, feature rich
- full fledged office solution for household or small office at no cost
- this is a real a deal, not some crampy ad-backed semi-functional office suite from unknown developer, but mature, lean and stable product started as a fork of Open Office, now being developed completely on its own with most of the unnecessary original and java code being cleaned outCons
- more customizable UI with skinning support (color themes with full iconpacks, personas are nice patch, but not a solution)
- some of the menus and dialogs are too cluttered, which is a stopper when you are not familiar with program and want to do something quickly and naturally
- missing optional autosave feature to save full backups of opened files at given period. there is an autorecovery feature, which recovers files after crash automatically and is probably best for normal consumer, but I would trust more full backups being created in specified directory or at the same directory with bak extension.Summary
For me, this is the best office software. I love the change in speed and stability with version 4 and I love how the suite changes for better. For me, Open Office at its time was an example of least progressing software development ever, now Libre Office got it right finally. Never had any problems with it either in work or at home. It has many features you dont get even with paid software. I'm recommending it to everyone.
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