Jennifer Murphy wrote:Are OpenOffice and LibreOffice two different products? How do they differ? OpenOffice releases tiny little updates once a year and recently it had to fix updates because they were broken because there are not even enough voluteers to test the entire product on each supported platform.Ĭontrary to that, LibreOffice can get on someones nerves because its quality management is not good enough for the pace of development and quite obviously, there is a group of people who constantly mess up the menues with never ending "good ideas". SInce 2015 it has become clear that OpenOffice is dying under that roof because all relevant developers and other volunteers switched over to the more attractive project. OpenOffice found a new home under the roof of the Apache foundation. OpenOffice 3.3 and LibreOffice 3.3 were identical products except from the blue/green branding. If you're going to be sharing documents with people using Microsoft Office, LibreOffice might therefore be the better choice.LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice 3.3 because OpenOffice was about to become homeless. Although both LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice can open and edit native Microsoft formats DOCX and XLSX, only LibreOffice is able to save to these formats. This is likely to be the biggest deciding factor for many people. LibreOffice does look a little more modern thanks to its larger icons and leaning towards subtle pastel hues, but it's nothing that'll affect your everyday work. The functional differences are very minor for example, the sidebar in OpenOffice Writer is open by default, whereas in LibreOffice it's closed.
LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are almost identical. Both software suites offer plenty of user-made designs to download, but LibreOffice's selection of pre-installed options is far superior to OpenOffice's. If you often need to make presentations, LibreOffice has the edge in terms of the number (and quality) of slide templates available. If you choose LibreOffice, you'll need to pick one language at the start and stick with it. If you're multilingual, it's worth noting that Apache OpenOffice offers more in terms of flexibility when it comes to languages, letting you download additional language patches as plugins. As its name implies, this is a small application specifically for creating charts and graphs, ready to be imported into other documents.
Toolsīoth LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice offer essentially the same set of apps (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math), but LibreOffice also includes a tool called Charts. The frequency of updates means there's also more potential for bugs in LibreOffice, but any that do appear are likely to be resolved quickly.
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