LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it is available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, Redhat, Slackware).
You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement.
LibreOffice is user-friendly, you get a simple-to-use yet powerful interface that is easy to personalize – Microsoft Office users will find the switch easy and painless, with a familiar look and feel.
Compatible with all major competitors' file formats. You can easily import files from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and many other formats, and can easily save to Microsoft Office and other formats when needed. That is creating you file in Microsoft office and edit in LibreOffice or vice versa with no problem of conversion.
LibreOffice is supported by a big worldwide community, volunteers help newcomers, and advanced users and developers can collaborate with you to find solutions to complex issues.
Pros:
- It is free and allows Microsoft Word emulation
- Works extremely well and don't have problem working Libre Office documents in Microsoft Office.
- Comprehensive of functions with an excellent GUI that easy to learn for any Word or Office user. Includes app of the essential apps needed in a professional office suite.
- Nice and clean interface similar to that of pre-ribbon MS Office
- Open source with large community means source is open and there is almost zero risk of hidden backdoors, vulnerabilities of other nasty piece of code
- Complete set of office software, feature rich
- This is a real a deal, not some crampy ad-backed semi-functional office suite from unknown developer, but mature, lean and stable product being developed completely on its own with most of the unnecessary original and java code being cleaned out.
Cons:
- More customizable UI with skinning support (color themes with full iconpacks, personas are nice patch, but not a solution)
- Missing optional autosave feature to save full backups of opened files at given period. But there is an autorecovery feature, which recovers files after crash automatically and is probably best for normal consumer.
- The interface is more likely to MS Office XP and 2003 version.
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