Melrick Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 I've known of OpenOffice for ages, but I've never heard of LibreOffice. It's also a free open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. Has anyone actually used it? If so, how good is it? How does it compare to OpenOffice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 It looks just like Open Office. Has the same features and whatnot. I'll let you know what I think after I play around with it a little. In fact, looking at the documentation, it's a fork of Open Office. So we'll see how it compares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melrick Posted July 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 It looks just like Open Office. Has the same features and whatnot. I'll let you know what I think after I play around with it a little. In fact, looking at the documentation, it's a fork of Open Office. So we'll see how it compares. Okie dokie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 One of the differences I've noticed it's a LITTLE slower loading, yet it has some of the functions embedded in to it more like MS Office for some things, rather than Open Office. The next step will be to upgrade IE again, and see what happens. Open Office crashes, as for some reason IE 9 has difficulties with the java coding used to create the program (which tells me it'll have issues with other java as well). If it doesn't crash, I'll let you know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted July 16, 2011 Report Share Posted July 16, 2011 Default file format is what is used by Open Office. Installed IE9, and so far, no issues. It works fine. So, if a user prefers IE, and likes open source office software, on Win 7 systems this is what I'd go with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melrick Posted July 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2011 Excellent. It sounds like a success then. I might just end up downloading it myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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