{"id":15601,"date":"2011-03-09T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=15601"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:03:38","slug":"libreoffice-an-excellent-open-source-productivity-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/libreoffice-an-excellent-open-source-productivity-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice: an excellent open source productivity suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The selection of available <strong>open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office<\/strong> just got wider with the arrival of a new option: <strong>LibreOffice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15603\" title=\"libreoffice-01\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/libreoffice-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/libreoffice-01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/libreoffice-01-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just like the well-known OpenOffice, <a href=\"http:\/\/libreoffice.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>LibreOffice<\/strong><\/a> offers a complete, feature-rich open source suite that includes all the tools you may need for your daily tasks, from the classic word processor and spreadsheet to presentation and database utilities. LibreOffice is fully compatible with Microsoft Office formats, and it also supports PDF natively.<\/p>\n<p>The interface in LibreOffice is very similar to that of OpenOffice \u2013 not surprising at all, since the suite has been created by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentfoundation.org\/foundation\/\">group of developers<\/a> who had previously worked for OpenOffice and later on decided to launch their own project. It\u2019s quite different to the Ribbon interface that\u2019s currently being used in Microsoft Office, but it won\u2019t take long to come to grips with if you\u2019ve already used productivity suites for a few years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15602\" title=\"libreoffice-02\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/libreoffice-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/libreoffice-02.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/03\/libreoffice-02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many clear advantages to LibreOffice: it\u2019s <strong>free<\/strong>, so there are no license costs or periodic fees; it\u2019s <strong>open source<\/strong>, meaning you can customize and hack it without any problems and with the support from a large user and developer community; it\u2019s available in <strong>more than 30 languages<\/strong>, with new ones being constantly added; and there are versions for all major operating systems<strong>:<\/strong> <strong>Windows, Mac and Linux<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While it may be a bit more difficult for companies to switch from Microsoft Office to an open-source productivity suite like LibreOffice, there\u2019s really no reason why you should at least give it a try. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s going to cause such a positive impression that you may consider ditching Microsoft and adopting LibreOffice as your new professional suite at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selection of available open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office just got wider with the arrival of a new option: LibreOffice. Just like the well-known OpenOffice, LibreOffice offers a complete, feature-rich open source suite that includes all the tools you may need for your daily tasks, from the classic word processor and spreadsheet to presentation and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/libreoffice-an-excellent-open-source-productivity-suite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LibreOffice: an excellent open source productivity suite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2614],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-15601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionlibreoffice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334390,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions\/334390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=15601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}