Author Topic: Differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice?  (Read 377 times)

Offline niculinux

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Differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice?
« on: February 09, 2013, 06:39:57 AM »
Hello!

I've heard that LibreOffice, in comparison with OpenOffice has more features, but the latter is more compatible with microsoft office...so, according to your knowledge, what are the main differences between them?

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Re: Differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2013, 06:46:07 AM »
The best comparison should be the one shown here
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Re: Differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice?
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2013, 06:49:09 AM »
thanks, ;) but that was over microsoft office, any "confrontation" with OpenOffice?

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Re: Differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice?
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2013, 07:18:14 AM »
I can only say that, from my experience, MS Office documents are handled extremely well with LO.

I (have to) use XP at work, and all documents are MS Office 2003 (yeah, we're a little behind  ;D). Often enough, when I work from home, I load Word/Excel/Powerpoint files on my personal PCLOS system and work on them with LO. It's faster, and I generally feel more comfortable on my personal system. Afterward, I upload them to my work laptop again, and everything's just fine.

I guess any other pointers can be googled, but since we have no OO installations here, there's probably nobody around here who can make any comparisons with Openoffice.
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