Best Microsoft Office replacement

Hi, I was looking into an open-source office suite (because M$ keeps trying to shove OneDrive down our throats even if we dont want it) and was wondering which one to go with. I have used OpenOffice in the past and it worked well enough, but that was back when Sun was just Sun.

I been looking into LibreOffice and it seems the best choice right now, but I might be overlooking other alternatives. What's your guys opinion? Which is better Libre, Open or some other?

 

LibreOffice is very good, and does function well.

 

Second vote for LibreOffice if you're looking for an Office alternative. Version 5 is particularly nice-looking.

 

LibreOffice FTW.

 

https://www.libreoffice.org/
Looks good. Guess I may have to look into this...Thanks

 

In Linux LibreOffice works pretty well. So it has a vote from me as well.

 

It works just as well under Windows, having used both versions.

 

Kingsoft Office 2013 Free v9.1.0.4550

 

MS Office 2010 .
Otherwise LibreOffice.

 

I've used it for basics in the past on borrowed machines and review units and it worked perfectly fine as a free solution. Does anyone know if it does pivot tables as well as Excel, or at all? I've have never checked and use pivot tables daily at work for data analysis. I'm getting sick of supporting Micro$loth's greed and incompetence and after Windoze OS X turned out to be such an abortion it would be nice to abandon Office if this will do what I need it to with pivot tables.

Hmm... I need to get out more often. Haven't heard of this one. Same question on pivots, if you know.

 

It's a Chinese clone of MS Office (though technically Kingsoft came out first...). Anyway 9.1.0.4550 is the last release before it got renamed to WPS Office and they crippled the freeware version, so I use that.

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/download-office

Apparently it does have pivot tables, but I've never used the feature.

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/suppor...5-pivot-table-tutorial-create-pivottable.html

http://help.kingsoftstore.com/spreadsheets/insert-tab/pivottable-create-delete

 

There is no real replacement to MS Office Suites to say. I seen Open Office had problems just even when writing fractions in a open office word document. So if it has this much problem with simple formulas it could cause problems when writing papers with such additions in there and give miscommunication to readers. It's still the Standard all other copy cats compare their Office knockoff to in the end. I have Office XP, 2007(both no longer installed), 2013 and maybe 2016 and don't use One Drive and choose not to use - so why you don't disable it makes one wonder if there are more underlying problems other then Office. All at the end of the Day all the Knockoffs compare themselves to MS Office regardless. I would spend the money and know I have a polished Product that will at the end of the day do it's work and get me out of the Office *pun*.

 

LibreOffice

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Thanks, I will have to check it out. I found another thread in another forum that mentioned the last good version was 9.1.0.4550 and downloaded it for future reference.

Pivot tables are awesome if you work with numbers and compare/analyze data from multiple sources. Makes life MUCH easier. I have to do that kind stuff every day... not that I actually want to, mind you, as much as have to, but I've done it enough years now that I am addicted to pivot tables, LOL. It makes me angry whenever I have to look at any kind of numeric data without them.

 

Libre Office from me.

 

Libre Office's Spreadsheet does have pivot tables.
There is also another office suite that branched out originally from Open Office called Apache.

 

Office 2003 with updates was polished product. Perhaps 2010 can be called that too, didn'test it throughfully.
But some people tend to minimize addictions to something they can't control. Especially Microsoft product... "polished", lol

 

Far better then the alternatives out there already and in the end they compare themselves to MS Office and use Office files extensions. So that in itself tells one if the others were good they would have their own extensions instead they use Office extensions. This isn't addiction this is fact if the others were so good why use Office extensions? Because Office itself is the brand they compare to and without Office there be so many extensions that no one file will be compatible with each other. That's something Microsoft beat everyone to. Therefore polished or needs polishing - Office is the Standard Everyone tries to compare to and one can try to say otherwise but end of the Day it is Office extensions that run the Office *pun*.

 

If you were happy enough with OpenOffice in the Sun days, you'll be quite happy with Libre Office now. It's really been refined quite a bit since then. Responsiveness and compatibility with MSOffice formats are the improvements I've noticed the most, though I'm sure office software experts could point out more. I've been known to use it on my Windows machines simply because it's slightly quicker to set up than my copy of Office 2010, and nowadays it does essentially everything I need it to do (although I do have Office 2010 on my main desktop).

Kingsoft is the other option that came to mind, though I haven't personally used it. I've heard mostly good things about it, though.

Apparently WordPerfect is still around, as a third non-Microsoft option. Haven't heard from anyone using it personally, though. It's also not open source, but neither is Microsoft Office, nor Kingsoft (I don't think).

A few years back, Lotus Symphony (open source) and Star Office (non open source?) were also options, and you might still find a 2010-era version of Symphony. Symphony had a slightly different UI than Open Office/MS Office, but wasn't quite as polished, so I don't see a reason you'd prefer it over LibreOffice today.

 

Actually you're wrong on file extensions at least with Libre Office, it's default spreadsheet format is ODT and it will convert any xls file into it during save unless you over ride it.
Also I could never understand how typing 2+2 into MS spreadsheet cell will be treated as a text string and display 2+2, not 4, unless you prefix it with = sign. It's a spreadsheet, designed for dealing with numbers and it should be assumed I want to see numbers, not text, we have Notepad for that.

 

another vote for libre office.

 

I don't know. putting = sign is just an indicator that it's an equation, I don't have issue with that. And I'd say 80% of users don't use it as a traditional spreadsheet but for table organization. Heck I know people that use it to paste images and write documents in it, lol.

Last time I used LibreOffice, or OpenOffice, or whatever it was called, was years ago, but it seems I had some issues with how it handled mass calculations and issues with users reading files saved with it in MS Excel, so couldn't use it. Maybe it's much improved and willing to try it if I can dump MS Office altogether.

 

This is the Fact that alot of users want to dismiss and fail to recognize. If those programs want to knock MS Office off the Top they have a long way to improve their software to beat MS Office.