If you just need to work with Microsoft Office formats, and you don’t mind what some would consider a dated interface, Open Office has all the comprehensive formatting and functionality you need.
Open Office supports document review features like commenting and track-changes, but it has no native cloud storage or email program. MS Office’s tight integration with OneDrive and Outlook allows you to easily share and work on files with others without leaving the respective program. Where Open Office diverges from Microsoft’s productivity suite is in collaboration. You can also export files to PDF from all three programs. But those instances usually only require minor tweaks to correct. Occasionally, it will hiccup as when it removed all the embedded images from a Word doc I had open. It does so flawlessly most of the time, even with complexly formatted documents like resumes and multi-column newsletters. I highly recommend this.Open Office has excellent compatibility with Office formats and can export to PDF from all three apps.īy default, Open Office uses the Open Document standard for native files, but you can change it to save to Microsoft formats, and it can read and write existing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Now they are abundant and reliable and pretty nice. I highly reccomend coupling it with a pdf product called FOXIT.įreewares by college professors and tech teams have always been a great thing. Open Office is the ONLY word product I use. windows later may not recognize the access file in its system needed to find them and make them accessible all because they were referenced in your previous OS. Even if you try storing them on another drive or partition. Especially since MS office suite auto links all your office suite items to your operating system files and guess what if some virus or malware gets into your machine. Considering the nightmares that 4 out of the last 5 windows operating systems have been, thats scary.Ĭount them up: Vista bad, 7 great, 8 bad, 8.1 marginal but bad, 10 going fastly to the bad. Trying to use MS Office Suite is only as good as the operating system you have and computer you have to run them off of. That company has left all computer users subject to hackers, malwares, adwares, and system crashes for several decades.
To the life of me I cant figure why so many people are so diehard about microsoft products.