Without a doubt, both LibreOffice and FreeOffice are excellent alternatives to Microsoft Office. For a very basic use it may be worth, but for a somewhat more advanced use we must go through the box to unlock the extra functions. And furthermore, the functions of the main programs (word processor, spreadsheets and presentations) are limited. In FreeOffice we are not going to find, for example, a software to manage databases.

Īlso, we are not facing a full version, but rather a “reduced version” of SoftMaker Office, which is the suite that really competes against MS Office. And, in order to use this suite, we must register our email. ConsĬomparing this program directly with LibreOffice, the first disadvantage we find is that, although it is free, its license is proprietary.

In addition, we can also download it on Android. We can find this suite available for both Windows and Linux and macOS. Plus, it doesn’t depend on Java, which takes up less space on your hard drive and runs faster than other suites.įreeOffice allows us to customize the appearance of the programs, being able to use a menu-based interface, like the old versions of Office, or a tab-based one like the Office Ribbon interface. In addition, due to inheritances from the past, the consumption of resources is quite high.Īs for consumption, being a reduced edition, it is considerably lighter than other similar suites. This makes the suite much larger than it should be. Īnother important disadvantage is that the database administrator, Base, depends on Java. The most common is to find that, when opening a DOCX document, the format is not respected. One of the first drawbacks that we can put to this software is that, although it is compatible with MS Office, in reality there are many aspects of said compatibility that do not end up going well. It has a large number of extensions to customize the operation and add new functions, a good number of dictionaries and, in addition, we can download it portable to always carry it with us on a USB memory. It even has an (optional) tab-based interface very similar to that of MS Office. LibreOffice is translated into a total of 110 languages, and it also has compatibility with Microsoft Office, being able to open your documents (although some leave a little to be desired) and save them in Microsoft document format.

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