LibreOffice & MS Office are not "fully compatible", but close enough to
be very useful in most cases when exchanging files between users with LO
and users with MS Office.
* Default LO user interface very different ; although LO now includes
a "ribbon" option to make it look more like the MS Office interface.
* Fonts are similar but not identical on a system that lacks MS
Office, as MS Office and Windows include proprietary non-free
fonts-- Can result in differences in line wrap and page overflow and
font appearance. For spreadsheets, may mean column widths and row
heights need adjustment.
* Position and size of embedded images can shift in undesirable ways.
Image captions may move inappropriately (caption support in LO is
better)
* Frames are more versatile in LibreOffice (multi-column text
supported). Translation of such frames to MS Word can change
appearance drastically, and restoring the appearance requires
alternative and more complicated approaches.
* Avoid using cell Comment feature in Calc or Excel spreadsheets.
Have seen some really bizarre side effects caused by comments when
the same spreadsheet is updated by both LO Calc and MS Excel --
even problems going from older Excel to Excel/365 because of a
design change to comments.
* Both Excel and Calc support functions referencing cells in a totally
different workbook, but the notation is different and have seen
cases where migrating workbooks between Calc & Excel causes such
functions to not work without any explanation until they are rebuilt.
* For cases where there are incompatibilities between MS Office and
LibreOffice, you may get different conversion results letting MS
Office read/write LO native file formats than letting LO read/write
MS Office native file formats.
* There are probably some other subtle differences I haven't
encountered yet.
But for most basic stuff, content and format migrate well enough that
the documents are fully usable. Functionally, you can get similar
results with either Suite, although is some cases you may have to use a
different approach.
JC Ewing
On 3/27/25 10:09 AM, Albertus de Wet wrote:
Have a look at LibreOffice. It is fully Office compatible and mostly the
same as Office suite of products- just free.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM Steve Beaver <
[email protected]> wrote:
I am going to have to bite the bullet and Upgrade from MS Office 2010 to
Office 365 mostly for Outlook on 2 PC, My Desktop and a Laptop. I have my
own Domain.
Any suggestions ?
TIA
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