The later releases of LibreOffice 4 introduced a tool sidebar and with improved icons the user interface has certainly moved forward. It has never adopted the Microsoft Ribbon approach, maintaining traditional tool bars which has led to criticism of an old style look and feel. It sports a significantly improved user interface, with a better management of the screen space and a cleaner look. LibreOffice 5.0 was released in August 2015 and has attracted some good reviews. See the Wikipedia article for a detailed comparison. In terms of co-existence the only issue is with macros which are incompatible. LibreOffice is a long time adherent of the Open Document Format but can read and write many other popular file formats, including MicroSoft Office.įor a long time Calc was under-powered compared to Excel but the developers have worked hard in this area and functionality is now comparable. Hundreds of extensions and add-ons are also available.
Base - a database application that can act as an interface to many other large scale databases or has its own database system included (currently the Java based HSQLDB).The three principle modules are as you would expect of a suite competing against Microsoft Office:
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LibreOffice is a full featured office productivity suite consisting of several applications.
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