Sometimes it lags a bit. It feels like it has some optimization issues. Larger actions make my computer lag more than it ever happened with MS Office suite. I also noticed some issues with layouts and formatting - it just won't behave as I would expect it to. I was trying out new alternatives to Microsoft Office and free options I was using this far. Luis from Self-employed. Company Size: 1 employee. Industry: Marketing and Advertising.
It does the job and it's free, what more can you say? Apache OpenOffice is a replacement for Microsoft Office that is free. It has a suite of apps replacing Word, Excel, and more. It has the majority of features as well. The equivalent to Word, Writer, can't save in. Not a terrible problem but annoying. Libre has a few features that are better than OpenOffice, but for whatever reason, I find OpenOffice's layout more comforting. Nakita from Buffalo Wild Wings. Industry: Retail.
The thing I like most about this software is its free to use. It doesn't require you to purchase the product after a certain amount of days. The application could be improved or updated. Last time I used the product it kept closing or not responding and when I would go to pull it back up and load my document, it would close again. I had Microsoft Office for many years, Due to business slowing down, we had to rely on another software, Apache OpenOffice was just as good a software as I had used.
I like this software, any documents made from another compatible software, will be able to export it to this cost efficient just as well. I didn't see much of word art offers. Budget cuts, fixed income. I had to start tightening up belt and use other software that has same compatible formats. Ryan from Content Customs. OpenOffice is a great free alternative to MS Office. Overall, it's great!
In a nutshell, this is a free version of Microsoft Office, for most practical applications. The best thing is the price, as it's free to download and use the full suite of functionality! However, that wouldn't matter if the software was poor. I don't doubt that MS Office has a leg-up in certain areas if you need deeper, more obscure features, but for day-to-day document creation, Open Office is great.
Two things: 1 I can't seem to find a way to save a document as a. That might be proprietary to MS Word. It'd be nice to be able to choose an item at the bottom of the list such as "Show more" that would open up expanded document history. Industry: Computer Software. Ottimo prodotto open source alternativo a Microsoft Office.
Ottima suite da utilizzare in caso servano delle funzioni Word o Excel sostitutive a quelle originali. Ottimo prodotto open source per sostituire gratuitamente tutta la suite Microsoft Office. Affidabile e facilmente utilizzabile. Nicholas from Kepeliketo Corporation. Industry: Consumer Goods. We found OpenOffice years ago when we were first starting out and needed an alternative to spending thousands of dollars on Microsoft Excel.
We use this daily for in house use and when working on projects for customers. Because so many people use Excel we simply work on OpenOffice and reload to Excel with very few changes necessary.
This software saves us time and money and to continue interacting with other businesses seamlessly. This software is very user friendly and meets the word processing and spreadsheet needs of our company. We use it daily for word processing, article construction, publication writing, and all of our spreadsheets. To say it is amazing does not do this software justice, I mainly use these two features but know it does far more, such as Drawing, Presentations, Calculator and Illustration.
Co-workers use some of those other included features, but my work keeps me occupied otherwise. The word processing and spreadsheet program sections can be converter to Microsoft Office products with minimal effort. This feature has saved us so much time. If we make changes to those documents they may be saved to either OpenOffice or Microsoft formats. The program is updated frequently at no cost or loss of information.
There has not been a single complaint from my staff. I personally have a problem printing envelopes, but I think that is because I rarely do so. Cost initially. But it is so nice if you're on the road a need emergency access. I had to replace a laptop on the road. I did so, added OpenOffice to the new laptop, signed in to the company network and was on my way without Microsoft's ridiculous software fees to add to a new device. I could access all the needed files. Sharon from Writing and Editing.
Industry: Writing and Editing. I've used it on numerous occasions to rescue and reformat corrupted files particularly in its Word version , earning major kudos from students and clients in full panic mode that the CV or project they've put their heart into has been lost forever. Not so! Open Office rescued it. It loads quickly, can save in many different formats more than MS Office and is more adaptable.
The portable copy has proved a lifesaver when out and about. I can plug it into any Windows computer and get to work immediately. Open Office reminds me of the old MS Office, with a similar layout and ease of use. It's not as big a resource hog as MS Office and for basic use it's excellent. Being free certainly doesn't hurt! Seeing the subtly different layout allows me to see errors that I missed before and since Open Office can be got as a portable app, I can take it anywhere on a memory stick, plug it in and get going.
It saves to MS Office formats as well as its own proprietary ones, and you can set it to default to MS Office format if you want. It can often open files MS Office struggles with, allowing you to rescue corrupted documents and put them back into a format MS Office can read, so even if you have the expensive software having this as a backup is worth it for when things go wrong. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of MS Office and sometimes you want to do something that in MS Office would be a breeze like inserting page numbers and in Open Office is a little more tricky, but there are tons of searchable help files and advice pages which means you can usually find a way.
Rex from RbF Inc. I write good business letters; often for other people; sometimes a printed letter gets more attention than an email.
The envelopes, formatted and printed in Open Office, are proper business envelopes. At a time when we are working more from home more, Open Office is a sensible alternative to expensive word processing, and spreadsheet programs. I do my company books with an Open Office spreadsheet that I designed myself.
It calculates income, expenses, sales and income taxes etc. When it's time to do taxes, the numbers are all there at the bottom. I use Open Office for at least three hours every day—usually six. It is my go to word processor. I've written two novels and a collection of short stories with it. I was easily able to format and style the layout for the paperback and eBook files, so they conformed perfectly to Amazon's publishing requirements. Most folks don't know this is possible so they farm it out and pay dearly.
I didn't rate the support category above because I have never had to use it. Open Office works fine all the time. Figuring out how to do headers and footers on alternating pages was a bit of a brain buster, but I got it. I'm sure it could be more intuitive.
Well, obviously, this was a very long time ago. Microsoft Word had come on the market and it was expensive. I was still struggling in Wordperfect when Open Office appeared.
I tried it and never looked back. Great program. I've tried MS Word since. No reason to switch. OpenOffice is hands down my favorite office application suite. OpenOffice is excellent for a free and open-source office application suite. It offers all the essential core functionality of MS Office for the low low price of absolutely free! When I was a student and began my career I was using OpenOffice exclusively.
If offers excellent capabilities right out of the box and is available even on Linux my preferred operating system. The lack of an online collaboration feature really is the only reason I had to switch away from this with my company. It's a much-needed feature, especially at this time, with everyone working remotely. At the time of switching, OpenOffice felt more intuitive with its controls.
Munema from Freelance. Company Size: , employees. If you don't need all the bells and whistles, go for this. I remember coming across OpenOffice several years ago and thought I would give it a try as it seemed a valuable "agnostic" solution that worked on Mac, PC, and Linux machines alike and it was free to download, install and use. Generally, what I liked about OpenOffice was the fact that it provided most of the main features of the various Word, Excel, etc.
True, the user interface may not have been as good as that of such tools but, overall, OpenOffice met its goals of letting users leverage the core features needed for writing, creating tables, etc. I would say that if you don't need advanced features but mainly the basics, OpenOffice could be the one "digital office tool" for you. There are a few things I am not a fan of when it comes to OpenOffice. The firsts one is the fact that, unlike some of the other tools, it doesn't have a mobile app. This means that you will always be dependent on working from your computer, always.
Next is the fact that it does come with a "ceiling" meaning that you might find yourself in need of something else at some point in the future because you may feel as if you have outgrown OpenOffice as a platform. Also, keep in mind that it has been discontinued so you may find versions still available for you to use but may be outdated. Amy from Art By Shaughnessy. Industry: Arts and Crafts. Absolutely phenomenal software. I don't know where I'd be without it.
It is not at all dramatic to admit this software changed my life. I wouldn't even know where to begin. I've been using did I say using? I mean in love with this software for over 12 years. I've landed jobs from creating resumes with this app, wowed fellow creators with artistic documents, made myself calendars and fitness goals lists with all the fancy fonts and borders, and even one classy and sassy resignation letter to a former employer of questionable morals.
This software has been the backbone of my progress for so long. Tons of features, easy to navigate, and doesn't slow down your system. Standing Ovation. The word con has no place with OpenOffice.
This software is incredible. I do wish it would not let microsoft word open up my unfinished-and-saved-for-later documents, which I know is just an issue with my PC and not Open Office. Still, it would be great to see it push Microsoft out of the way just once and make it known which one I'm loyal to.
It was back in , and the Microsoft Word trial expired, thus requiring funds I did not have at the time. A coworker recommended Apache OpenOffice and I've been a fan ever since. Amit from Trevita Techno. Industry: Education Management. Best Productivity Application and Alternate to Micrososoft.
Apache OpenOffice is really helping me in my business. It is saving us from everyday licensing issues of microsoft. This software is really complete peace of mind. I liked OpenOffice software because it fulfills all aspects of productivity applications. This is free of cost software provided by Apache foundation. OpenOffice is complete suite of office application which includes spreadsheet, word-processor, slides presentation applications and other important tools also. I liked its interoperability feature so that its files are easily supported across various platforms.
I appreciate Apache Foundation for making such hassle free software which is giving benefits to masses. I am using Microsoft Office applications since a long so i am habitual to save files in Microsoft format like. Ivis Coromoto from Consejo Federal de Gobierno. I use it in my office every work day to write information or do calculations among other things. There are many benefits among which we can mention that it is a free software that can be downloaded directly from the Internet, it can be installed in other operating systems that are not Linux, it takes few resources from the team in terms of memory and space in disk unlike other programs that exist in the market, it is easily installed and has the same structure as Microsoft Office.
I installed it on my home computer when I started using it to learn it and I was amazed that it was too fast to run, since this computer has very low performance and when loading other similar applications it takes a long time. What I like the most is that you do not need a large capacity to run in addition to being able to download it for free because it is not licensed.
What I do not like is that it does not have all the advantages of functionality as far as tools are concerned and that it is not percent compatible with Microsoft Office, which is a limitation when exchanging information between both programs. For example, with open office calc and excel lack many tools so that office calc is a hundred percent compatible with the case of macros that are made in excel. If a document made with macros in Microsoft excel is tried to load in open office would not be compatible.
Actually it has all of the features you should need. Since my student-subscription ran out i was not willing to renew my subscription with the full paid version of Microsofts Office. So i switched to Apache and - honestly - was not disappointed. Since my last time using it, it gained a lot of functions and especially stepped up in overall appearance of the userinterface and in accessability. I would definitely recommend checking it out, before spending loads of money on commercial competitors!
It's astonishing, that Apache OpenOffice is still a freeware, if you keep in mind the incredible amount of functions it features. The "similarity" to Microsoft Office makes it very easy to switch between those products. The same goes for interchangeability of data.
With Apache OpenOffice you can edit data from Microsoft Office without any loss in format and layout. While it features a lot of features, there might be some very advanced functions, that are not availible in OpenOffice. That might not be a problem for the bigger part of users, because one might not even know about those. But for commercial usage it might fall short at parts. Ross from Massey University. Industry: Higher Education.
A decent alternative to Microsoft if required. I like it. I tend to use Office myself but that's mostly because it is what is provided. I use OpenOffice occasionally just to keep me up to date with it so I can help students that are using it but this has meant that, with familiarity, I've reached the point where if I were paying the bill myself, I would absolutely look into deploying OpenOffice in my workplace.
The thing I like most about this product is probably the price. It's free and works well. Outside of this though I really like the development that has gone into OpenOffice. When it started out it was hideous, limited and buggy. More importantly compatibility with Office programs e. Word and Excel was incredibly iffy and lagged behind each update.
There was very little reason to use OpenOffice aside from the price. Nowadays it still doesn't look great it's better though! For example Writer does everything most will want from Word and I actually prefer the way that it handles pasting images and formatting tables. There are now legitimate reasons to choose OpenOffice in terms of the programs on offer, and if opensource is appealing then I'd recommend it as the default work-suite.
OpenOffice suffers the same issues as most opensource software. It is written by people that have a very good understanding of coding and perhaps are not as good at UI or understanding how to ease relatively new users into an experience that differs to Word. OpenOffice generally works on the function over form approach and so the best that can be said of most of the offerings within is that they are "not hideous anymore" The UI is both stark in aesthetic and a little merciless for newcomers though; options are packed in and occasionally something requires a little more "under the hood" work to get going e.
There are so many things I love about it, it's hard to indicate just a few in one review. As a writer, I need a word processing software that, put simply, simple! OpenOffice has the capacity to do a LOT of complex things for other industries--like graphics, spreadsheets, presentations--and it can do everything Microsoft Office does, but I think the standout thing about OpenOffice is it never glitches on me except maybe visually when I'm scrolling through an page document and it doesn't take up a lot of space on my computer so it always opens right away--as opposed to Microsoft Word which always takes forever to open and crashes on my Macbook Pro frequently.
Also, OpenOffice is free. I don't have any complaints. Office is far to big a program it seems to run on my MacBook Pro. I don't know why. But OpenOffice just always opens when I need to open. It's fast. It does what I need it to do. Since the day office became more expensive, I started to search for an alternative which I found via a website which offered alternatives for paid software packages, I even started to implement this software is other non profit companies and they had to learn a bit but never regret it!
It does exactly the same as any other paid version of office, as a really small company we need to look at every euro, since we switched, we never looked back, because we don't need more than this office suite is giving!
Its not perfect with writing to xlsx or docx, but who needs this? You normally export to PDF and you don't need these more compressed file types anyway.
Ed from Paddledoo Music. Industry: E-Learning. I depend on it daily for writing and spreadsheets and am not disappointed! Cannot beat the free price. It does everything -- i mainly use word processing and spreadsheets -- without getting wrapped up in Microsoft's intrusive and expensive software. I can open and save as Word, can open CVS, etc. Easy and effective. What's not to like, except they leave phone apps to private developers and i do wish i could search and replace tabs and other formatting symbols, but nobody's asked this since Microsoft Works in the s!
Less intrusive, free, and capable of opening and saving to Microsoft formats if needed. My overall experience of using Apache OpenOffice was great. It saves license cost. It is fast. I am having more benefit by using operating system of my choice. Apache Open office is a free and powerful alternative to all popular office suites. It offers all basic and advance possibilities which other office suites are offering.
It is available for all popular operating systems like Windows, Linux, Android, etc. It is comparatively small in size. It is fast to run. It supports all popular file formats. I have been using Open Office since or so. We supported a client base of 5, I tried Open Office and liked it immediately. However , with what I've seen of OneNote, there is no reason why the answer can't be: "Not yet, but we're working on it and it shouldn't be too long. I just had a look at it on my Windows 7 partition which I rarely use I have limited programming experience, and I would certainly not be able to implement this, but here is my 2 cents Suggestion: It would be a relatively "simple" exercise to fork OO.
Basically, you'd just be adding tabbed browsing capabilities to a Writer document. Note that Calc already has this capability in 1D ie multiple "sheets" in the one document.
OneNote has tabs in 3 dimensions. If there are any takers, can I get the ball rolling for the new name to be "OpenOffice. OpenOffice 3. Please, edit this topic's initial post and add "[Solved]" to the subject line if your problem has been solved. Ubuntu I have the choice of getting it through "home use program". However I am a fan of freeware and would love something similar to Onenote in OO. It is OSS open source software. Why do you ask for your daughter?
She has to decide for herself. It supports all kinds of digital content linked to any other MS product.
The whole type of application has nothing to do with the ODF standard being the core of this software. Yes, this software has one particular focus. It is not about features.
It's all about documents in free file formats. Install a modern desktop envoironment for Linux KDE with some gimmicks and gadgets. It keeps your notes, key rings, media collections, links, addresses, skype, web 2. You can access it through a web interface, but one of the reasons why they have that bunch of OS-specific software versions is so that you can install the "local" software and use that offline, as a stand-alone application with the data held locally.
If you only want to use Evernote on one device, that's probably all that you'll need. If you want to use Evernote on multiple machines and have them all synched, then yes, you probably need to sign up for the free server account, and if you're churning lots of graphics, yes, that might take you past the "free" threshold.
But if that gets to be a problem, you could always shunt your image library to a dedicated image-hosting service like Picasa and keep Evernote as a text-and-clippings-centric notetaker. Evernote don't tend to stress the standalone aspect of their product s , because they regard the "cloud" aspect as being the "sexy" bit. If you want to synch multiple Evernote-equipped machines without going through the internet, that might be a bit more difficult. Re: OpenOffice and "PIM" functions like note-taking and ToDos: If there's really no open-standard format for things like taggable note objects or advanced to-do list entries, then surely the open-source community needs to invent and implement them?
I've just wasted a few days trying to decide how to reorganise my files, and have waded through stacks of totally incompatible Notes and ToDo applications. As far as "note-taking" standards are concerned, Apple regard the MS product's format as being the Windows standard, so if you want to synch iPhone notes with a Windows PC, you need a piec eof software that can set up and access an MS Notes-compatible database. You can't win a standards war if you don't play, and you can't complain about people using proprietary standards if you don't give them an alternative.
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