Where Microsoft seems focused on changing the look of its products and optimizing them for tablets, LibreOffice is improving basic functionality and efficiency with an eye for the desktop. There are also a lot of very nice guides available for download as well as extensions that add capabilities to all the modules. Note that the inline help is a separate download. Yes, some reviewers are just hard to please. On the other hand, I like it that LibreOffice provides other types of documents under the “New File” heading. At the very least, they should be divided by type. When I’m in Writer, I want to see Writer documents, not the database files and spreadsheets I’ve been working with. I do not like the mixing of document types in the recent files list in all the modules. Subsequently, you can open any module from within any other module by selecting New File.Īs much as I like LibreOffice, I do have some minor gripes. The only time you’ll see LibreOffice’s launch app is when you first open it. Personally, I decidedly do not miss Office 2010’s window-obscuring menu, poor organization of options, and too-many-clicks interface. This makes it easy to emulate a program you might be more familiar with, or to streamline your workflow by hiding features you don’t use. It also give you complete control over the contents of menus and toolbars, as well as the actions invoked by keyboard shortcuts. LibreOffice’s interface is enough like Microsoft Office’s that few users will have trouble adjusting to it. You can also use the Draw app to create presentations. I found the Draw program and its myriad shapes and objects particularly useful and easy. A design wizard and a decent collection of nice-looking templates help to get you started.īoth the Math (formula rendering and shaping) and Draw applications are capable. PDFs don’t require proprietary software, namely PowerPoint, to render.
However, Impress is quite facile at creating presentations, and it exports to PDF, which is the format I see most often these days. LibreOffice Impress has impressive presentation creation capabilities, though PowerPoint compatibility isn’t quite 100%. Impress didn’t display some portions of PowerPoint presentations imported, so in that regard it was one of the less successful modules in LibreOffice.
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