LibreOffice
LibreOffice
About LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a cloud-based and on-premise suite of applications designed to help businesses, charities, and government organizations create, edit, and manage documents, spreadsheets, presentations, graphs, drawings, mathematical formulas, and more. Its autocorrect dictionary allows users to identify typing or spelling mistakes across multiple languages on a centralized platform.
Data miners can use LibreOffice's built-in wizards, template repository, and formatting capabilities to create and adjust content on spreadsheets including backgrounds, borders, and other elements in collaboration with multiple users and save or export documents in ODS, Microsoft Excel, or PDF format. The Impress platform helps businesses edit, organize, outline, and view content, notes, or slides, add animations and effects to presentations and utilize the font works tool to build 2D or 3D images from text. The software also lets managers create or design graphics, diagrams, technical drawings, posters, flowcharts, photo albums, and brochures.
LibreOffice supports various file formats such as DOC, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, ODF, PDF, and more. Supervisors can also embed pie, 2D, 3D, and column, among other charts into documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or drawings according to individual requirements.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best free open source Office suite tools
Reviewed on 30/09/2022
Great tool that i like to use every day, very fast and lightweight compared to Microsoft office or...
Great tool that i like to use every day, very fast and lightweight compared to Microsoft office or other office productivity tools.
Pros
After OpenOffice got acquired by Oracle, the source code was forked under the name LibreOffice which turned to be a better more reliable project, independent from any for profit companies that may end up
sabotaging the development of this great productivity suite tools that are great alternative to Microsoft Office.
The suite include the following tools :
LibreOffice Calc - Spreadsheets creation, editing and management tool best alternative to Office Excel
LibreOffice Writer - Document creation, editing and management tool best alternative to Microsoft Word
LibreOffice Impress - Presentation creation, editing and management tool best alternative to Powerpoint
LibreOffice Base - Database creation, editing and management tool best alternative to Microsoft Access
LibreOffice Draw - Vector graphics Creation, editing and management tool, alternative to Adoble
illustrator, Microsoft Visio, Inkscape...
LibreOffice Math - Math documents creation and management tool.
Cons
Macro function is not that reliable yet, and although LibreOffice is open source it seems the development of the project is very slow, very little functions or UI changes are added after every release.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The new go-to Office suite!
Reviewed on 28/02/2021
LibreOffice is a perfect alternative for other Office suites. It's opensource, it handles multiplatf...
LibreOffice is a perfect alternative for other Office suites. It's opensource, it handles multiplatform collaboration very well, and it's a breeze to switch from any other office suite.
Pros
LibreOffice is unbelievably easy to hop in for a newcomer - no matter what you've been using previously. Because most of us, its users, are probably "switchers", either from MS Office or OpenOffice, LibreOffice not only makes up for the software we've been using before - it also does a lot more, and does it in very intuitive, effective manner.
Cons
I hate the fact that I've hesitated so long to actually try LibreOffice. But after installing it and giving it a chance to shine - it was love from the first sight.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft 365Reasons for Choosing LibreOffice
We've felt that OpenOffice was abandoned. Also, it did not handle MS Office document import very well.Switched From
Apache OpenOffice- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Not for everyone, but great that it's there
Reviewed on 11/01/2021
It's not easy to specify LibreOffice's niche, and it depends a lot on the technical abilities of...
It's not easy to specify LibreOffice's niche, and it depends a lot on the technical abilities of the users. For scientific publishing and documents there is LaTeX. Technically also for presentations, but I didn't bother so far. For notes, simple text-based collaboration and even website publishing I recommend markdown. For posters and flyers use InDesign. All of these require more or less experience and reading documentation. I think LibreOffice fills the gap for those who just need a general-purpose Document processor from time to time or use it's web-based version by Collabora to collaborate. While these people could use Google Docs or Microsoft Office as well -- and I even recommend them from a usability perspective -- these come with a significant hidden cost, given the dependencies on Microsoft Windows in the one case and the unclear situation around "telemetry" in both cases, aka. they might spy on your documents, which is potentially problematic. If your documents contain personal or company-internal information -- they almost definitely do -- think twice if you might want to bite one of the other sour apples: Spending time on learning a more specialized tool, getting used to LibreOffice's okay but suboptimal usability, building specialized web-based applications for your use-case, or automating those people who spend their whole day in Excel-Sheets.
Pros
Well, obviously the main argument to use LibreOffice is that it's released under a free license and therefore free to use, in general. But aside the zero price, LibreOffice plays an important political role that affects companies all over the world: Microsoft Office is the undisputed market leader in native Document software, which effectively keeps people and organizations from switching to free operating systems, since it's dependent on either a Microsoft operating system, or an even more expensive macOS. Given the previous monoculture in this space, the importance of LibreOffice as a free alternative, that can be made to run on any operating system and even be used web-based is outstanding. Writer and Calc, the most important ones, are not perfect but usable pieces of software I would recommend to my mother. The worry about file format incompatibilities with Microsoft Office seems to be much less of a problem nowadays. And I would recommend you anyway to use free document formats inside your organization and PDF Forms (LibreOffice Writer and Draw help you with that.) and HTML sites for everything that leaves the house.
Cons
Bad experiences mostly come from LibreOffice Impress. It works for me to create simple presentations with simple animations, which is everything I need. But even that is kind of annoying: Creating a blank slide involves changing the "Master Background" which is apparently decoupled from the slide layout, which is as unintuitive as it gets, and often starting an itemized list creates arbitrary bullet sizes, indentations and font styles you have to take care of.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A spreadsheet software that interprets data from different software
Reviewed on 09/03/2020
I solve an essential task in my work, the calculations. I use LibreOffice spreadsheets to create...
I solve an essential task in my work, the calculations. I use LibreOffice spreadsheets to create quotation documents, as well as budgets. Also, we benefit from the fact that it is a free software for which you do not have to pay any license.
Pros
LibreOffice is easy to use and allows me to make any calculation easily. This software is essential to manage sales or purchases in my organization, since I can keep all the data sorted. On the other hand, it is free software, so you save a lot of money that costs a license of a spreadsheet software. Also, I also like that it has Excel support, so I can open the same documents in both programs without the documents changing their structures.
Cons
I cannot criticize software that gives me totally free features and that are fundamental to my daily work.
Reasons for Switching to LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free software, so it did not generate expenses for the purposes we are using.
- Industry: Wholesale
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
advantageous variant for microsoft office
Reviewed on 31/07/2020
I have been using the software in parallel with microsoft office since 2013 and since the older...
I have been using the software in parallel with microsoft office since 2013 and since the older versions I have been satisfied with the functionality of the program, which is definitely clearer than the new versions of microsoft office.
Pros
We use the software on Linux computers (due to faster data processing). The financial savings are great, we saved a significant amount on licenses, which could be invested in other software. Thanks to Linux, another advantage is the processing speed, by which I mean mainly the base and calc program.
Cons
In its current form, version 6.4 can be criticized, the software is completely comparable to Microsoft Office, support also works without problems. The only problem is that employees have to learn it (mostly they know microsoft office).
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Microsoft 365Reasons for Switching to LibreOffice
The main reason was the price and also the ability to use the program on computers where Linux is installed.LibreOffice FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for LibreOffice.Q. What type of pricing plans does LibreOffice offer?
LibreOffice offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
LibreOffice is available for free.
Q. Who are the typical users of LibreOffice?
LibreOffice has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does LibreOffice support?
LibreOffice supports the following languages:
French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Q. Does LibreOffice support mobile devices?
LibreOffice supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does LibreOffice integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations LibreOffice has
Q. What level of support does LibreOffice offer?
LibreOffice offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Chat
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