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A comprehensive solution for day-to-day office needs, with efficient and open-source code.
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Pros
Pro The de-facto standard
Being able to tell new people that the FOSS community has an actual default office suite matters. It shows that, despite the bewildering number of options, there can be a clear winner.
Pro LibreOffice can take from OpenOffice, but not the other way around
Due to licensing each office suite uses, only a one-way transfer of code is possible, offering more long-term potential for LibreOffice over OpenOffice.
Pro Font embedding support
Font embedding ensures that the document will display correctly whether or not the target machine has that specific font installed.
Pro Comprehensive suite of applications
LibreOffice includes applications for word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management.
Pro Multiple themes
Many icon themes available to customise the look and get consistent look with the OS.
Pro Lots of extensions and dictionaries
Has many extensions that can add aditional features to libre office
Pro The most user-friendly option
To attract new people to FOSS, having an office suite that is as user-friendly as LibreOffice is a must.
Pro Presentations can have 3D models embeded within them
Impress supports 3D models in gITF format.
Pro Portable version
LibreOffice offers a version of the suite that does not require installation. It can be kept on a thumb stick to ensure that you have an office suite on whichever machine you choose to use.
Pro Cross-platform
All major operating systems are supported, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (Arch, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse).
Cons
Con Needs a lot of system resources
It's a large office package that needs a lot of drive space and system memory.
Con Not fully compatible with MSOffice
It's not fully compatible with MSOffice and often breaks documents.
Con Not fully compatible to MSOffice
It's not fully compatible with MSOffice and often breaks documents.
Con Documentation is out of date
Good luck turning off autocorrect, because the place where the documentation says that option is doesn't exist.
Con Track Changes needs to be improved
Collaborating on a single document is difficult. Track Changes makes the document hard to read as both edited and deleted text is displayed, it's not possible to print comments, tracked differences between document versions are sub-optimal and there's no system for accepting/rejecting changes.
Con Does not run as stable as OnlyOffice
It runs fine until it crashes. Users have experienced multiple crashes when using the cursor to select text in the writer, running in Kubuntu 18.04.
Con Won't work with themes
It does not work with custom themes due to all the different wrappers involved.
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