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    LibreOffice

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ALibreOffice is a free and open-source Office Suite from The Document Foundation, presented as the successor to OpenOffice.org. The suite includes Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing).

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    free and open source under the Mozilla Public License v2.0

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    LibreOffice
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    LibreOffice
    Considered Both Products
    The Document Foundation
    Chose LibreOffice
    Hated Microsoft and went right back to LibreOffice. The cost, the annoying way it's always nudging you to use their browser and other apps, and the evil genius of Microsoft is something we want no part of.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    Cost and security. I trust what's on my machines, not what MS is doing with my documents.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    LibreOffice is an easy choice if you don't have access to a free copy of Microsoft 365. LibreOffice is also much easier to use on Linux. But it does fall short in terms of collaboration with Microsoft users and consistency with advanced features such as custom Styles and …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    I have used MS Office, Google Docs as other comparable products. I like MS Office best of all. I like LibreOffice better than Google Docs; however, I believe that if Google Docs wasn't so limited in many of its features and web-based only, I think it has the potential to …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    Google does not offer equivalent desktop applications. Microsoft's nonprofit licensing is too complicated and their support is not really supportive of such a small organization as ours.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    LibreOffice is very similar, but more actively maintained. I actually used OpenOffice more frequently than LibreOffice in the past, but after LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice, the developers began to maintain it more actively, so I switched.

    Some features (I believe certain …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    LibreOffice's biggest advantage over MS Office is its gratuity, but its cleaner interface and the fact that it is naturally multiplatform are also important features.
    As for Apache OpenOffice, the time that this suite "was in the hands" of Oracle caused development delays (even …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    I selected LibreOffice due to cost. While we need an office software suite, we don't need the sophistication of MS Office. We used the basics of MS Office. We couldn't justify the expense when we only use a faction of the functionality.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    It is very similar to MSOffice with an added factor of being more user-friendly and more open source.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    I used to use Open Office prior to 2010, and we have some Office365 machines. LibreOffice is the clear winner almost every time due to the cost and licensing issues with Office 365 aside from the small number of cases where we need to use MS Excel for ease of compatibility …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    In the past, I tried Microsoft and Word Perfect. I was compelled to purchase a new version almost every time there was an upgrade so I could utilize the improved features either as a creator or a user. LibreOffice has a regular and consistent free update cycle. Templates and …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    In my view, Microsoft office products are very much user-friendly and well documented. However, these products are very expensive where the LibreOffice is free of cost. Also if you have a Linux platform, the best office product will be the LibreOffice. Although LibreOffice is …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    I think it is fair to say this:
    • If you are looking for a well-rounded, GNU-licensed product that will encompass word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database then LibreOffice is probably all you need.
    • For online collaboration, links with cloud storage, and more …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    As noted previously, LibreOffice blows Google Docs (G Suite) out of the water in terms of singular application quality, and comes close but misses the mark as a drop-in replacement to Microsoft Office. We currently are evaluating the latest release of LibreOffice to see if we …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    Again, it is both free and functional. What more could anyone want?
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    I have chosen LibreOffice for the possibilities it offers and because it allows me to save money on the licenses of other programs. Being a free program, I do not have to think about renewing licenses every year. It is a software that offers the same characteristics as other …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    I choose LibreOffice because it's open source, free, low cost and multi-platform. It's the perfect office suite if you use Linux, there's no bettter choice. Also by reducing license costs, company could spend money on more important stuff. Also there's a lot of documentation …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    At first we used OpenOffice, but since Oracle took it over, the updates started to take more to go live and it hasn't improved like LibreOffice has.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    Mainly CSV and other formats compatibility, when compared to MS alternative, it's faster than cloud-based solutions (Google Docs, Zoho), I don't have to wait for MS Office to look at what I have in the cloud before saving something, its interface is better than MS Office, for …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    Libre Office Calc is better than Excel for data cleaning. It is, however, somewhat worse than Excel for charting "sharing" documents for non-power users since one hundred percent compatibility is not guaranteed. The outdated Libre Office user interface is worse than Excel since …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    I have followed and used many various office suites in the open office range of open source offerings. I still occasionally download and try one of the others just to take a look. But, I always end up making LibreOffice my choice to go with.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    Microsoft Office 2016 is the premium option for word processing, but in my line of work the content is more important than the presentation. I am mostly content to work in Google Docs unless working with documents of a sensitive nature. Then I use LibreOffice.
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    The most ubiquitous office suite now is of course, Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office offers very good tools, but is very Microsoft/Windows "centric" - understandably they want to tie users to the Microsoft/Windows universe. I'm a big proponent of open source operating systems …
    Incentivized
    Chose LibreOffice
    The online docs - people often found [them] confusing and limited in what they do. LO was preferred to those though they lack the real-time collaboration features in the other documents.
    Users preferred Office 2016 though support was going to go away for it so we investigated …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    LibreOffice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)