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The application originated as a commercial office product from the German company Star Division. ✔ Multiple language versions installable✘ Shared editing of files not integrated ✔ Joint editing of files possible via additional app✘ Own server required for teamwork

✔ Runs more stable even on older or less powerful computers✘ Only 32-bit version available✘ Rarely updates, hardly any new functions ✔ Slightly faster 64-bit version available✔ Regular updates with new functions✘ Many additional features come at the expense of stability ✘ Fewer additional functions than LibreOffice✘ Less compatible with more complex formatting ✔ Creating charts (CHARTS)✔ Larger selection of presentation templates✔ More additional functions in the writing program✔ More import and export functions ✔ Better compatibility with more complex formatting More closely aligned with Google Office applications Thus, some "rich" documents that provides additional features supported with a particular macro will not run in the other suite.More closely aligned with Microsoft Office applications Calc is very similar to older Excel XP edition.Ī final warning: Star Basic (the language of the macros running by LO and AOO) is different from VBA which is the MS Basic variation. Whatever concerns Calc, the spreadsheet offered by LO and AOO, the compatibility is great. However, consider that even in that case, some slight differences may appear in very complex layouts, but without loss of information. doc format, you may use without fear both suites to read and write in that format. On the other hand both LO and AOO has great compatibility with older. docx format (offered by LO) has some problems when saving images (sometimes they just disappear) and in general should be avoided. More details: Be aware that although both LibreOffice (LO) and Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is capable of reading all MS formats, the exportation of native. A short answer: For most of the cases you will be satisfied from the compatibility of LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice (which are same) with MS Office.