Apache OpenOffice Reviews

I love it and I think it is very a good competition for Microsoft. It does everything it is supposed to do and it is very user friendly. Do not listen to the malcontents just check it.

I love it and I think it is very a good competition for Microsoft. It does everything it is supposed to do and it is very user friendly. Do not listen to the malcontents just check it.

This is the best ever software that i have used for the writing articles of my website due to grammatical correction at www.showboxinfo.com

Always happy with this OpenOffice, from the first early days it has always made a mockery of the Name to Beat ~ because in my opinion it always has. Thankyou to everyone involved for the past 20 yea rs work. Carl Dietryn carl@wooh.ooo

Although this project is very important in the history of free and open-source software, it is no longer being actively developed and it has been sup****eded a long time ago by LibreOffice. This should be stated in the description.

Indispensable!

Works great as an alternative to Microsoft Office. Might even be better than MS Office. Highly recommend it.

Apache is actually more intuitive and user-friendly than Microsoft. This is a very good and free alternative.

Bonjour Monsieur-Madame, Une très bonne alternative à office 365. Je vous remercie pour la réalisation de ce magnifique projet. Très cordialement. Le 29 juin 2019

Good

I have been using Apache Open Office for years, and it is actually easier and more user-friendly than Microsoft Word. Whenever I get a new computer, and I have gone through a number of them over the past 10 or so years, downloading Open Office is absolutely one of the first things I do when setting everything up. Thank you for all the hard work that has gone into the design and easy to use features.

Over the last three decades I've used virtually every word processor ever written (from DisplayWrite to AmiPro and DeScribe, via WordPerfect and others). However, over the last decade I had little need for a word processor. Then I began the journey which led me to become the author of two books, and was told that Microsoft Word is simply not up to writing complex books. This is not something one wants to find out after spending 12 months on a book that contains a huge investment in time and thought, only to find that one has to migrate because the chosen software is not up to the job. My first book was 340 pages long, with multiple Appendices containing tables and around 400 footnotes. The second book was over 400 pages long, again with multiple Appendices and nearly 600 footnotes. In addition to the complexity of so many footnotes, tables and auto-generated indices/table of contents, the second book needed to break all the rules of typography to convey highly complex information in the simplest way. OpenOffice handled everything smoothly and simply. I love being able to search and replace based on styles and character formatting, and sometimes even needed to apply formatting based on the results of regular expression finds. Perhaps OO could do with a proper grammar checker, but that is a one-time finessing operation which can be carried out when the book is finished and read to be sent to print. Exporting to another format and importing into a highly-rated grammar checker is not too onerous (about 50% of the grammar corrections were things I dismissed anyway - the grammar checker was finding mistakes in books published by seasoned authors with professional editors and proof-readers). I wrote both my books in OpenOffice, exporting to PDF for the printer. Despite using a variety of olde-worlde print shops and range of print on demand outfits, the interior of the book never caused a problem. In the 36 months it took to write each book, I had no more than a handful of crashes in OpenOffice. Not once did the recovery process lose information. By comparison, I use Word 365 for the simple activity of producing labels for mailshots - I've had far more crashes just doing that simple process in Word than I had from OO working on huge documents. Just trying to get labels aligned in a simple Word table is like a dark art. I haven't come across anything incomprehensible like that in OpenOffice. Despite all the effort Microsoft supposedly went to with their design of "the ribbon", I find the OO interface far simpler and more intuitive. Even though something in OO may not be in the first menu in which I look for it, it will be found in the second menu. The menu names make sense, but in Word I struggle to locate simple functions of the programme. Producing the two-page spread for covers of the books in Adobe InDesign or Quark Express was far more complex than using OO to produce the nearly 800 pages in these two books. Converting an ODT document to ebook formats is simplicity itself with Calibre. A few tweaks might be needed to the CSS. Calibre itself seems to make erroneous ebook structures, and one needs to work around that to make a valid epub structure. That's a flaw in Calibre and Sigil. But as a workflow, being able to get 100% of a PDF for a book from OO, and 99.99% of an ebook from OO + Calibre is a very smooth toolchain. I have need to process sales information, which comes in Excel spreadsheets. I need to find certain rows based on the content of a cell value. Excel cannot do this (not that I can find, and I've spend 35 years working with computers, including software design). I open the spreadsheet in OO, and this simple task is (as one should expect) simple. It's also really helpful that tools like Scrivener can export and import ODT files. The barriers to entry to becoming an author are now so low. The tools and toolchain are great. Yet alongside this technological age, we're living in an age in which censorship is ramping up at an extraordinary pace. Microsoft's licensing terms now mean that Microsoft can rescind one's license based on their disapproval of the content one writes. The importance of politically free software is going to become increasingly obvious. I'm told by many readers that my second book is going to be the most important book of the twenty-first century (as a self-published book with a minimal amount of unpaid promotion, the book shot to the top of the best-seller chart, displacing all those books where a fortune had been spent on advertising and promotion by the big publishers). Yet my No.1 best-selling book has already been censored by global corporations, because it exposes the dominant narrative yet the evidence it contains cannot be refuted. I've no doubt that free software is going to be the cornerstone in preserving western civilization from the coming new Dark Age. If there was one major improvement OO could make, it would be to export not just to PDF but also as ePub. I could then see no reason why anyone would use any other software than OO to produce the interior of any book. We are living in a time of unbelievable growth in publishing, but the most interesting and important works could be strangled at birth by the fascistic censorship found in global corporations, who do the bidding of the state and powerful elites. The liberty of free software is now going to matter more than the gratis of free software.

Recently downloaded latest release (4.1.6) and have experienced multiple crashes when opening and editing text documents, particularly but not limited to, documents containing tables. Operating system is Windows 10. Never had a problem with previous releases.

good software, it is very fast and smooth.

The product is very handy for work

I've been using Open Office(AOO) for more than five years and love it. Downloaded few times in different desktop, and laptops. I have such a hard time to figure out Word. Love my AOO . @ mrsclassicscraz I never had problem downloading until today, using my new tablet. I press ok twice, and went through. Either that or because of a problem with the email I clear today's history. And I enable the always ask me where to download. Series of moves, however one or all of them together worked. I have AOO in my personal laptop as well! I cannot rate Support because I never asked them to support me!

Very nice program. Easy to use, very intuitive, and well written. This program is very well supported by a fine set of professionals.

Have been using Open Office for many years. Just installed it on my new computer. Could not be happier.

I have used this program for several years and it is dependable and reliable, and it is free.

这么多年还在坚持，辛苦了，加油

I use This software to make educational worksheets and other content and I love Open Office! I have Windows 365 and I don't even use it. Open Office enables me to create a gallery for my clipart that opens as I'm working so I don't have to worry about opening up several other windows.

Good

Merci, le téléchargement et l'installation sont relativement faciles. Bonne continuation à tous.

Very well impressed with it performance. Just I need to go more deeper to get better quantify with .

Very users friendly and a intuitive approach I have an advice to Beltechi, you could close the window