(For example, Microsoft lets you change page settings, but won’t let you save them as in LO/AOO.) LO/AOO have much more control over styles, including character styles, paragraph styles, page styles, frame styles and list styles. The open software twins might actually be a better platform for e-books and the web than Microsoft – although there is room for improvement from all three. LO/AOO both have much better tools for creating PDFs than Microsoft, with many more options. There are some things LO/AOO actually do better than Microsoft Office and vice versa. How do LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice Compete with Microsoft Office?īetter than I expected. That advantage was quickly erased, however, when LibreOffice also imported that feature. AOO was the first to introduce the sidebar, which I find to be surprisingly useful. AOO’s download is a bit smaller, but LO’s includes more stuff, I think. (I don’t understand why Apache OpenOffice hasn’t figured that out, yet.) Also, LibreOffice allows you to embed font info with their files if you are sharing them with somebody who doesn’t have that particular font Apache OpenOffice doesn’t.ĪOO might be slightly zippier than LibreOffice, though, and some of the dialogue boxes are a bit more attractive. I’m giving the edge to LibreOffice, mainly because Apache OpenOffice had problems opening PDFs with embedded OpenOffice files and only LibreOffice allows you to save your files in Microsoft’s XML formats. (And, no, I still haven’t installed it on my new computer.) Which is better, LibreOffice (LO) or Apache OpenOffice (AOO)?įrankly, the two programs are still so similar, it’s a coin toss. Here are some of the things I learned in a month of not using Microsoft Office. The steamy dog-days of summer are over the leaves are beginning to change colors Labor Day is past and students are in school, so it’s time to end our Great, Frugal Summer-Doldrums Software Experiment. Wrapping Up the 1-Month Great, Frugal Summer-Doldrums Software ExperimentĬomparisons, Features, and Wish Lists for Open Source Office Software
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