LibreOffice vs MS Office

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LibreOffice vs MS Office

Postby viking60 » 02 May 2016, 13:40

I use LibreOffice and frankly; coming from MS office it is easy. My problem is to see the difference but they are there.

It surprised me that LibreOffice can import MS Viso files while MS Office cannot.

Also: LibreOffice supports Import of DOS/Windows legacy word processing documents: Microsoft WinWord 5, Microsoft Word 6.0 / 95, Microsoft Write, Hangul WP97 and Text 602 (T602), Lotus WordPro.

MS Office does not.

MS Office does support simultaneous editing of a document by several people while LibreOffice does not.

In the spreadsheet department Excel seems to have more functionality than Calc with power pivot, macros and integration of external sources.

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