Should I replace LibreOffice with OpenOffice?

[vat with tux]

Hey.... I don't think so that libreoffice is having everything which openoffice is having.... so if u r not having trouble with libre office then what's the need of switching to openoffice .....

[Gatemaze]

Either are fine. Eventually libreoffice will be the default option due to licenses.

[mastablasta]

I stuck with Openoffice for the same reason as mentioned. It works and is substantially more stable than Libreoffice. Everytime I tried Libreoffice I had to make sure that the autosave option was set to a max of 5 minutes... It is really a shame that it was forked, because just before the fork it started to be a quite stable Linux alternative to MS Office.

Really? It's more stable?

Could be. i have Libre on windows maschine and OOo on Kubuntu 10.10. What i noticed is the incomatibility with MS Word 2003 on OOo. I transfered a large book to it and it failed to display footer and header propperly. Libre the lates version failed to load the document for some reason. but a bit older stabel version loaded it almost pefectly and the only difference was bullets which were defaulted to square dots. i guess it's an easy fix if needed at all...

Also transfering the whole 300page thing to PDF - libre office did a good job. but i have to admit i haven't used much of both.

[pretty_whistle]

If your primary use is word processing, I would say neither - use Abiword instead.

Well you're right saying Abiword's better than both Office suites. I have tested it and found their office suites to be annoying. Like one example was when I tried to type this:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
end of file

Their program took the ~~~~ and made a line out of it that extended across the entire page and when trying to make it accept what I typed in turned out to be impossible. I even tried something in place of the ~~~~ like ==== but it did it anyway. Very annoying.

Abiword's the only one that accepts it as typed.

Another example was trying to change font color several times in a document. Abiword lets me do that with ease.


+1 for Abiword!

[Jouke74]

Yeah abiword and gnumeric are great, but I tend to use Impress a lot as well (college slides). Therefore to have Openoffice + abiword + Gnumeric installed on a netbook is somewhat overkill.

Indeed I also noticed the improved importing of MS documents in Libreoffice, and I am sure that i will be much more stable soon. Maybe I should retry it again soon. But for now I like the bit larger stability of OOO.

Having also issues with OOO. The autocorrect function is very frustrating, and also deleting stuff from a spreadsheet is annoyingly complicated.

From all these office tools they should take their best code parts and make a single good office suite that really can compete with MS, and I don't mean visually but practically. (IMHO)

[rattskjelke]

LibreOffice released version 3.4.4 today.

[pretty_whistle]

LibreOffice released version 3.4.4 today.

Oh yeah. Wonder if it's better than 3.3.4. I use Impress somewhat and can't use Abiword for that one..........

[pretty_whistle]

LibreOffice released version 3.4.4 today.

I can't get a linux version from their site and the one in software center is the old one I have now. No luck for me.

Never mind me, all wrong.

[maravingian]

I am annoyed at Ubuntu changing over from OOo to Libre as OOo was fast becoming a decent rival to MS Office. It had a LARGE repository for Templates, and allowed direct transfer from MS Documents with hardly any cross-over problems. Until Libre proves itself I think I`ll be staying with OOo for the forseeable future

[AlexDudko]

I found 3.4 release of LibreOffice a good substitute for OpenOffice. Many bugs which kept me from using it were resolved. Since all distributions are tending to switch to LibreOffice it seems the only full-featured office suite in future. And of course one should stay with it to get security updates in a timely manner.