![]() ![]() That is a very difficult question to answer, without knowing more about your situation. Over the years the dust has settled a bit and the animosity between the two alternatives to Microsoft Office has abated. Certainly, this make sense as OpenOffice was being managed and maintained solely by Oracle Corporation. Most of the Linux distributions went with LibreOffice. This caused a groundswell of revolution and LibreOffice was born. However they did not ignore it and rallied to remove any leader of the project that was not an Oracle employee. In a political move the company spent more time worrying about what they’re going to do with Java then Star Office/Open Office. With the collapse of Sun Microsystems they were swallowed up by Oracle. OpenOffice traces its roots back to StarOffice. It really was not very good however I would buy some copies at $50 a seat because even in the late 1990s Microsoft was already losing its benevolence. While they made their money in hardware with their Sparc systems, they had a low-cost competitor to the Microsoft Office Suite known as Star Office. There was an independent company in Silicon Valley known as Sun Microsystems. Somewhere along the way it lost the word, benevolent. It grew up to become the benevolent dictator. Microsoft was the rebel leader with a very low-cost operating system and programming language. A user had to go to a high priest and beg for services. Data was chained in silos, hidden behind glass walls and maintained by high priests. Unless you are a student of history or like me, are a human fossil, you would not know there was a day when Microsoft was the rebel camp. Here we are going to look at the three most popular Office Suites: OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Microsoft Office. As with most things there are both reasons to cheer and have a feeling of doom. It is probably a fair bet that as long as humans are Homo sapiens we are going to see forking of our binaries. I feel that in LibO I have more control.Article from Tcat Houser editor-in-chief of. Working with styles - in my opinion it just works better in LibO.The workflow in general is better using LibO.The pivot function is easier to work with using LibO. ![]() ![]() The default user information metadata in LibO is all fields being blank until the user manually fill in those fields.Īlso - at times I have to work with Excel/Word at work, while working with Libre Office at home, so regarding my personal taste, I think also: But If I upload an Excel file to a web forum, I may run a risk of other users get my real name/address (very scary if this is part of documentation that reveals information that may cause some involved to seek revenge). ods file and call myself whatever username I want to (to appear in the file). While using Libre Office, I can upload a. In MS Office, your name can be tagged in documents.This feature is not to be found in Libre Office (I don't miss it either). This can have different reasons, in some cases MS Office shut down immediately after the user click on the OK button for that message. In MS Office, I hear stories from some users telling there is a warning that indicate that the license isn't valid.Since most distros also provide a Live desktop (booting from bootable usb stick in a temporary but fully functional OS) you can edit documents even on a computer that doesn't have a working OS installed. In fact it ships with most Linux distributions (distro) as standard so in most cases the user don't have to dealing about installing it. User cannot change to default toolbar interface. You can change to Ribbon menus (called tabbed in Writer) and several other variants. The default interface in Libre Office is the standard toolbar setup.If I'm to paste as unformatted text into Word I have to press Alt+H, V, T (sometimes the Alt+H fails to activate so then the key presses insert errors into the document). And you can map the keyboard shortcuts all your own way. In Libre Office (applies to all application within the suite) you can rearrange the buttons excactly the way you want.Libre Office can be used as a portable application, can put it on a usb stick and use it without touching system settings (i.e.Libre Office ships with a separate drawing program, simply called "Draw" that both can be used as a standalone application but also integrates into the other applications (insert into spreadsheet, document or presentation).In Libre Office there are the Math program that integrates into Calc (spread sheet), Writer and Impress (presentations) - and it also works as a separate application, making it easy to create long formulas, then save as separate file and then when finnishet can be inserted into the main document. MS Office doesn't include a formula editor, this is something one must buy as a separate addon.Well, here is some more practical differences (may not apply to all MS licenses) - not including the web based version of MS Office.
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