As this blog entry at How To Geek points out, productivity suites with word processors, spreadsheets, etc. have seen a lot of growth over the years. They run through some of the main features of both LibreOffice and Microsoft Office. They come to this conclusion:
If you don’t need to collaborate on documents or spreadsheets with Microsoft Office users, LibreOffice will satisfy the needs of anyone looking for a fully-featured, mature office suite.If you do need to share and edit docs with Microsoft Office users, watch out for the gotchas with fonts on non-Windows platforms, and other formatting glitches that can creep in. Things are a lot better than they were, but complicated document layouts and power user spreadsheets can still pose problems.
Having relied on both, I find MS Office 365 so clunky and feature-rich as to be…un-usable. LibreOffice is only marginally so. Feature bloat is a problem with both solutions. A few months ago, I reviewed several Office suites, but have since dumped them all into the trash.
As a heavy Google Workspace user, I seldom rely on a local Office Suite. Of course, I have found that as I backup all my data from the cloud, I need something to work well.
A Solution! OnlyOffice
A great alternative that works well, reminds me of ClarisWorks (an all in one type solution) is OnlyOffice.
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I have relied on it to quickly launch and open a variety of files, DOCx to XLSx and PPTx, and it has rendered the contents of those files without problems. Honest.
OnlyOffice works great with spreadsheets, word processed, and slide deck documents. It has additional features you can explore on their website, but for an alternative to MS Office and GoogleDocs, skip LibreOffice, OpenOffice.
Give OnlyOffice Desktop a try. It works great on Mac, Windows, and GNU/Linux. It has tons of other features, and there’s also OnlyOffice Workspace (cloud or self-hosted). But all you really need is OnlyOffice Desktop.
Everything posted on Miguel Guhlin’s blogs/wikis are his personal opinion and do not necessarily represent the views of his employer(s) or its clients. Read Full Disclosure
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