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https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/kC/YF/6R3J2LMF6J0T.PNGApacheIf you need flexibility at a great price, and you don't need online collaboration, OpenOffice is for you2018-08-31T15:47:47.595ZWe use OpenOffice in most of our divisions, typically as a translator/swiss army knife for opening almost any file type and being able to work in it. We're a consulting firm, so we get lots of documents from all of our various different clients, and not having to email them back and say "Hey, we can't use your files, can you send us something else" keeps us looking professional. It also lets us do some neat tricks that other document suites don't - like being able to directly edit .dbx files in calc - things that keep us ahead of the curve.,The number one strength of OpenOffice is the flexibility it gives. We can open any file type, save any file type - it's pretty much invincible. Even if we're going to work on this in a different program, just being able to open some of these ancient files that we get from local city governments is a huge win for us.
It's also administrator friendly - I'll use it a lot on the road because the licensing is so much easier to deal with than trying to check out a license from a server or make sure that everybody has internet connectivity.
It just looks pretty! It's legitimately a quality product, the layout looks good, it's not nearly as pushy as "other suites," and for the money it's the best!,I would like to see more inclusive design - things that make accessibility a priority. Some of our users are older or vision impaired, and being able to include them is important to us.
This is nit-picky, but I don't like how it opens the startup menu every time - like you open a program, and it opens the overall menu. So, for example, I want to work on a database file in calc, so I open up calc - the first thing it does is say "which of these programs would you like to work with?" I just opened Calc - that's what I want, why are you asking me if I want to edit a presentation?
For whatever reason, formatting can sometimes be a little wonky around pictures - I get that that's a thing, but man I wish someone would perfect the ability to drag and drop pictures without exploding everything else in the document, you know?,10,Well, because it's free, it's by far one of the top performing pieces of software we use in terms of ROI. We save thousands by not having to get so many licenses for other software suites.
I don't know that there's much more I can add - it's completely free, and the competition charges scads more money - if you're talking about ROI, you can't get much better than dividing by zero!,Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 365 and Google Drive,QGIS, ArcGIS, Adobe PhotoshopNathan BowmanOpenOffice - Free solution for word processing2018-03-09T19:31:18.664ZI am a professional freelance photographer, so within my business, I handle all matters that require a word processor. I use OpenOffice, an open-source office productivity suite, to create any and all business-related documents: invoices, receipts, quotes, etc. I do not have the need to create more complicated documents or presentations, so I can move through the administrative part of my day with ease and no cost.,OpenOffice is free and fully functional. When I bought my first Macbook, I did not want to pay additionally for Microsoft Word or any other processing software. I found OpenOffice as a free alternative that met all of my needs.
It is easy for beginners to learn. Omitting some of the bells of whistles of Microsoft Word (for example), leaves it super user friendly but still powerful enough to get your work done.
Because it is open sourced, OpenOffice is well-policed software. Anyone can suggest improvements, propose bug fixes, read about future plans, and avoid the hype of commercial software.,Though not often, the software can occasionally act glitchy: it can lag a little bit or crash altogether, though this is rare in my experience.
The primary document format in OpenOffice is ODF, rather than DOC. I sometimes experience incompatibility when opening files from Microsoft DOC in OpenOffice, such as formatting errors.
OpenOffice does not have a built-in grammar check tool. This can be remedied by downloading an extension, but I'd like to see it built-in.,9,OpenOffice allows me to complete all the basic needs of the administration side of my small business.
Any document that I have ever needed to create, whether that is an invoice, a quote, a receipt, or even a resume, I can create easily in OpenOffice.
Without software like OpenOffice, I would not be able to operate my small business in a professional manner.,Microsoft Office 365,Adobe Photoshop, Square POS, CrashPlanLiz WadeOOO.org -- Heavy on Office, Light on price.2018-03-12T14:24:01.581ZI have been a user of OpenOffice off and on from when it was Star OfficeSuite; at the time it was the only Office Suite for Linux systems, and today is cross-platform and highly compatible and indeed equivalent with Microsoft Office.
While not being used across my current place of employment, in a previous career it was the sole office suite utilized by the business entity, selected because of its price and compatibility. With it I was able to send documents to other (larger) businesses who utilized current versions of Microsoft Office, and they were able to see the issued documents with high compatibility and no display issues.,Price: the version I used was free.
Compatibility: With exception of specific tabling in the word processor and macros in the spreadsheet tool, there was perfect compatibility.
System compatibility: I was able to access and use it with fairly old systems, and did not need a new or current PC to install and operate.,The system is fairly bloated. The amount of space the office suite takes up is increasingly larger and larger with each iteration.
Macro support is weak.
Greater XLSX and DOCX extension compatibility without required "conversions" would be good.,8,The initial cost in terms of price and time value of setup was negligible: immediate benefits.
High compatibility means less troubleshooting and conversion is required, saving time.
Weak macro support means that occasionally you will be required to use another suite.,Microsoft Office 2016, Coral Office and Microsoft Office,Microsoft Office 2016, Adobe Acrobat DC, Salesforce App CloudVerified UserOpenOffice is fast and reliable2018-02-13T17:35:13.588ZOur university is a Microsoft partnered institute and all the department issued laptops and machines come preinstalled with Microsoft Office solutions. Since I prefer Linux Ubuntu OS, I started using Apache's OpenOffice suite. In my personal use, I found it to be an excellent alternative to Microsoft Office. In our IT department, we also experimented with OpenOffice API as part of a software tool we developed to handle document conversion process.,Apache Openoffice has some excellent features that made it an attractive tool for my personal use.
It is fully compatible with all the Microsoft document types and loads much faster on certain occasions. You can easily add on additional modules to customize the software further.
Being an open source community tool it is completely free of cost.,The Writer software, which is their equivalent of the Microsoft Word would often have problems importing tables and data from Excel or other spreadsheets and not render correctly.
One of the things that I have repeatedly had issues with was its presentation software, Impress. Presentations developed in that tool would sometimes not display correctly in projector mode and some graphics would not show at all.,7,In my personal use, Apache OpenOffice has been a very wise decision. It is completely free and a very stable product.
Our use of the OpenOffice API to handle document conversion process in a programmatic fashion was very successful as well.,Microsoft Office 365 and Prezi,Blackboard, Oracle Virtual Desktop InfrastructureVerified UserApache OpenOffice2018-01-31T18:00:39.960ZIt is being used by persons that use the Linux environment and some Windows users that like that it is open source or just prefer it to Microsoft Office. It is also being used by those who take their work home on their personal devices and want the open source version, so as to not have to buy the Microsoft version.,It is a great alternative to the high cost of Microsoft Office.
It is not expensive to upgrade with every new release like Microsoft Office is.
It is works on multiple platforms. There are version for Windows, Linux, and Mac.,It does not have an email client. It needs an email client like Microsoft Office has in its Outlook application in Microsoft Office. For this I would suggest getting Mozilla's Open Source Thunderbird email client.
It does not have a calendar application. It needs an calendar application like Microsoft Office has built in to its Outlook application in Microsoft Office.,10,OpenOffice is an open source product. So, ROI is immediate.
It works across multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac, and Linux. So, the user can have the Open Office experience accross most all of their devices.
Some people do just like Microsoft Office and will not adopt anything different.,Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 365 and LibreOffice,Microsoft Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, LibreOffice, Malwarebytes, Barracuda Backup, Barracuda NG Firewall, Barracuda Web FilterVerified User
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