In its moment of despair, Word wanted to send me to to try to open the file, because it was not able to interpret and use the archive created by LibreOffice. Not a biggie on its own, or rather very much so, but it sure is a compounded effect of a much bigger issue I was dealing with.
While stuck loading this one naughty document, Word got really sluggish, and separate instances of the program crawled at a fraction of the expected responsiveness. I was forced to hard-kill the process before I got control of Word once more, as well as its associated speed. Trying to open the LibreOffice-generated DOCX file, Word simply stalled, churning a whole CPU core, but doing little besides. All of the formatting was preserved, including the multiline comment, which used to be a tricky thing in the past. Surprisingly, the fidelity of the conversion was pretty good, and Microsoft Word did not complain when trying to open the LibreOffice-generated file. There were no issues with the binary files. And no less importantly, how useful and accurate these files are when opened in the proprietary rival software. Therefore, the most crucial bit in this test will be to see how well LibreOffice can handle the export and import of non-native file formats. You may not like it, but you can’t avoid it.
In real life, most people will be using some version of Microsoft Office to create their assorted documents, and when it comes to written text, Word is the de facto standard. The next part in the experiment is to save this file in a variety of formats, most notably DOC and DOCX. And when I say multiple, I mean lines with a solid break, not just overflowing text. A Writer document if you will, which includes some basic styles, some text markup, an embedded image with a caption, plus a comment with multiple lines of text. We will start the exercise by creating a document in LibreOffice.
#Libreoffice vs microsoft office 2010 software
Can you afford to ditch the expensive payware software and go Libre only? We talked about this in the past, and we will talk about this now. And there’s a promise of better support for Microsoft DOC/DOCX formats, which is the Achilles’ Heel of the whole typing world. This latest edition of the most popular free, open-source office suite comes with a range of new options, tons of speed improvements, a variety of fixes, and more. Indeed, LibreOffice 4.2 has been officially released, and it’s a major one. Nothing like pitch black to demonstrate pure white. But it is exactly why we will use Windows. This article is going to feature screenshots taken on a Windows 7 machine only, which might strike you as odd, given the fact this is a Linux-related topic we are discussing here.
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