This is likely to be the biggest deciding factor for many people. LibreOffice does look a little more modern thanks to its larger icons and leaning towards subtle pastel hues, but it's nothing that'll affect your everyday work. The functional differences are very minor for example, the sidebar in OpenOffice Writer is open by default, whereas in LibreOffice it's closed. LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are almost identical. Both software suites offer plenty of user-made designs to download, but LibreOffice's selection of pre-installed options is far superior to OpenOffice's.
If you often need to make presentations, LibreOffice has the edge in terms of the number (and quality) of slide templates available. If you choose LibreOffice, you'll need to pick one language at the start and stick with it. If you're multilingual, it's worth noting that Apache OpenOffice offers more in terms of flexibility when it comes to languages, letting you download additional language patches as plugins. As its name implies, this is a small application specifically for creating charts and graphs, ready to be imported into other documents. Toolsīoth LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice offer essentially the same set of apps (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math), but LibreOffice also includes a tool called Charts. SoftMaker does not reveal much about the changes that found their way into the new FreeOffice application, only that all "three programs contain numerous innovations and improvements that make work even more efficient".The frequency of updates means there's also more potential for bugs in LibreOffice, but any that do appear are likely to be resolved quickly. The commercial version includes advanced features, such as support for creating ebooks, access to professional dictionaries, Group Policy support, improved German spell and grammar checking, and free technical support provided by SoftMaker.
Most users won't run into any compatibility issues when loading Microsoft Office or Open Document documents into the FreeOffice applications.Ī commercial version, called SoftMaker Office, is also available. Documents created with other Office applications open seamlessly in the FreeOffice 2021 applications.Ĭompatibility with Microsoft Office formats is one of FreeOffice's strong features. The applications can load Microsoft Office and Open Documents formats, other text-based formats, as well as its own format. Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice users will feel right at home when they start using FreeOffice 2021.
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