Is Libre Office the best free choice for word processing?


  1. Posts : 634
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    Is Libre Office the best free choice for word processing?


    I need to work with word files and don't want to pay for an entire software suite. Is Libre Office the best bet?
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  2. Posts : 7,730
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    I've never used it, so I can't comment on it.

    However, I have used Open Office and liked it a lot.

    OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
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  3. Posts : 634
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    seavixen32 said:
    I've never used it, so I can't comment on it.

    However, I have used Open Office and liked it a lot.

    OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

    thanks! I have heard that Libre Office is Open Office just faster or sumthin

    I'll give it a shot


    (okay did some reading. It seems pissed off Oracle employees left and started LibreOffice as a full community driven endeavor. OpenOffice, under Oracles control, seemed to piss them off)

    https://www.libreoffice.org/
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  4. mjf
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    I use Office 2007 so haven't seriously used any of the alternatives.
    However, in addition to Open Office and Libre Office this one gets a good mention as maybe better
    Free office software, Kingsoft office suite free 2012

    I think Visual Basic Macros may always limit full compatibility.
    Also Open & Libre have portable versions if that counts.
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  5. Posts : 710
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    I use both MSO and Libre Office; as far as I can tell Libre Office is pretty decent although I still prefer MSO since it does quite a few things more to my liking - e.g. Excel's pivot tables.
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