

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.
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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. The next elements are filters and will change the displayed results once they are selected. If you often need to make presentations, LibreOffice has the edge in terms of the number (and quality) of slide templates available. Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. 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. Apache released the beta version of OpenOffice 4.1 in March, 2014. LibreOffice has been developing more quickly and releasing new versions more frequently, but the Apache OpenOffice project isn't dead. 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 project known as OpenOffice today is actually Apache OpenOffice and is being developed under Apache's umbrella under the Apache license. It promises hundreds of bug fixes, better compatibility with Microsoft Office documents.
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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. Now OpenOffice has its first major update since 2011, Apache OpenOffice 4.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
