LibreOffice VS Microsoft Office - Which Is Better? | CompuMatter Product Review 

I am a Senior as well. I has Microsoft 365 for 4 years. Can no longer afford it. Libre Office is an excellent substitute once you grasp ahold of the differences.

Libre Office/Open Office for the average user is the best way to go and of course it is free to download. I dumped MS Office many years ago and have never looked back.

Yes, it is very easy to replace the MS Office suite with LibreOffice and Thunderbird if you do not want to pay their annual charges! Glad to hear you have had a good experience.

As a broad index invester, I make money off people using main stream stuff. However, as a indiviual, i absolutely do not want to use anything but FOSS. -posted from iphone 8

Glad to hear LibreOffice is working out well for you!

You paid for office 😂 i just used an unlimited free trial glitch

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Thank you, I am glad to hear it!

I have used Windows Mail personally at home for some time now before knowing Thunderbird. After working with Thunderbird and seeing how easy it is, plus Microsoft forcing people to change to Outlook supposedly in 2024, I might just have to make the switch! I'm grateful for everyone who has added something to the open source project as it has helped a lot of people and made email simple.

@@compumatterllc You on your way to becoming a Linux user 🤣 I've moved most of my PC's and Servers to Linux. Best thing ever

Absolutely! I can make a short how-to guide on this soon.

Hi there, we just posted a video guide for downloading and installing LibreOffice. Feel free to give us a call too if you need additional assistance.

That's fair. They do not mesh together nicely for macro usage..

What does that mean exactly? Im thinking of getting Libre office, will i not be able to send documents to people with microsoft office and such because they are not compatible? Please and thankyou :)

@@Jayjay-vh1jg No no no. You will be able to do that (share/edit files). Its Macros where there is an issue. Each application has its own way of making macros. Microsoft office Macros are what a macro is: it's a recorded sequence of actions or commands that enable yo to do a repetitive function quickly using VBA. Say you have a complex mathematical formula that you use throughout a document, you can create a macro and assign it a key to do that formula at a keystroke instead of multiple keystrokes. Or say you pull data from a database to generate a report. You can create a macro that will let you do that. OpenOffice has its own version of this function. In order to switch from one platform (LibreOffice/MS Office) to the other, you would have to redo the macro in the desires platform.