OpenOffice is fast and reliable
February 13, 2018
OpenOffice is fast and reliable
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Apache OpenOffice
Our 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.
- 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.