Feb 24, 2017 - LibreOffice is free and open-source, opens almost any legacy. Mainly on version 5.3 of LibreOffice for Windows, but I also tested it on the Mac,. The changes in macOS High Sierra are mostly under-the-hood tweaks which you might not see but you will benefit from. In conjunction with enhancements in Photos and Safari we think this is shaping up to be a really worthwhile macOS update. Anyone who’s been following all the drama and intrigue of office suite software development news for the past several years will know that LibreOffice has basically risen from the ashes of OpenOffice, as developers from the latter decided to go off to start their own project (while using the open-source code from the work they’d done on OpenOffice up to that point). For a while it looked like OpenOffice was doomed, with Apache announcing that their development team was dwindling and unable to keep up with updates addressing everything from UI improvements to security vulnerabilities. But after record-low download numbers in 2017, OpenOffice seems to have bounced back a bit, with a big update triggering people to take an interest again. In this article we compare the two Office suites to figure out which one wins. Related: Features Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice look much the same from the outset, with vintage-style interfaces that reject Microsoft’s tab-based look. Look a little closer, though, and you’ll see the differences. Handily, LibreOffice keeps track of your word and character account dynamically as you write, which is great for those working with word limits. (In OpenOffice you need to click “Tools -> Word Count.”) OpenOffice launches with a sidebar for various font and paragraph options, which is theoretically useful, except that many of the options are just repeats of what’s already in the toolbar across the top of the window. You can enable this sidebar in LibreOffice as well, but I think it’s a little superfluous. Font embedding is a nice addition in LibreOffice, too, which ensures that whatever fonts you use in your document get displayed correctly in other word processing software that opens the document. On a related note, LibreOffice allows you to save in the.docx format, while OpenOffice doesn’t. ![]() (Both let you save in the OpenDocument format and most of Microsoft’s proprietary formats.) Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice use open-source document formats and have exactly the same programs with exactly the same names contained therein. Namely: • Writer – word processing software • Calc – Spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel equivalent) • Impress – Presentation software (Microsoft Powerpoint) • Draw – A vector program () • Math – Mathematical formula software • Base – Database management software (Microsoft Access equivalent) In short, they look very similar, but LibreOffice has more quality-of-life features resulting from more consistent development of the software. Security and Stability LibreOffice gets updated much more than OpenOffice, thanks to a bigger team and more resources. A factor in this could also be that there’s a license in place, and that means the LibreOffice lot can help themselves to the code from OpenOffice but not the other way round. The rarity of updates with OpenOffice also means they’re not quite as on the ball in terms of security, and the team often take a long time to address the latest security vulnerabilities and bugs. A major bug in the macOS version that causes crashes when making diagrams in Calc is yet to be fixed, while Apache seems to be constantly scrambling to iron out security issues. I did a lot of processing and all these menus are really good.
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