Likewise, it would be stupid to save everything in ODF while working with MS Office or any other application that supports some foreign file format for import and export but not for creative work.ĪLWAYS work with the native file format of the application you are using and export an additional copy in foreign file format when absolutely needed. It makes absolutely no sense to work with application A and save all your work in the proprietary file format of application B. You should definitively switch to MS Office. Will their structure be affected when I switch to LibreOffice? I have more than 300 documents in default office word/excel/powerpoint format. OpenOffice survived under the roof of the Apache foundation but now is almost dead due to lack of resources, poor maintainance, no significant new features since 2015, poorer compatibility with Microsoft documents. A team of developers took the open source code and forked another project known as LibreOffice. In 2011 the project was about to be destroyed by a Oracle which bought the top code contributor Sun Microsystems. Feel free to ask concrete questions on concrete conversion issues. This way you will see any problems in document copies. The original doc/xls/ppt documents won't be touched. It creates copies of all text, spreadsheet and presentation documents in a given directory and saves them in the Open Document Format (ODF). Code needs to be rewritten for documents which depend on heavy macro coding.Īfter installing LibreOffice, call File>WIzards>Document Converter. Macros are the crucial point of incompatibility.
As far as I read that is weaker version than LibreOffice? Seasrching I found that there is a also OpenOffice. In word, excel and powerpoint I am using mostly 99% bacic functions, writing, font change, bold letters, insert table, basic mathematics operation in excel, edit/delete slide in powerpoint and so on. Will that be a problem, text structure and formatting will remain the same? Similar question as above, let say I switch to LibreOffice, I edit all my documents and after some time (let say couple of years) I want to return to Microsoft Office. Will their structure be affected when I switch to LibreOffice? I am mostly afraid that font, spaces and all other text formatting will be a big mess after switching. For years I have been using Microsoft office 2010 now I am finally decide to move to something free, open source and something that will respect my privacy (I am mild privacy freak, just don't like Office telemetry).
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