Since this video, my eyes have been opened up to a lot of the customization features in LibreOffice...mind blown. I'll have to test drive the single bar.
@@Jiren_Corleone If I have the right Mendeley, I don't see a plugin for OnlyOffice. If you are open to new programs, Easybib has a plugin for onlyoffice. I use it routinely in my papers for work and school.
LibreOffice 7.1 is pretty nice and looks a bit more modern. You can make it look similar to the Microsoft counterpart as well with the tab system but you'll have to dig through the options to change it. The only reason why I stayed with OnlyOffice is because when I copy and paste certain things, it stays pretty much the same format in Documents. LibreOffice Writer doesn't paste the same format and fonts most of the time. Also, since my work place has MS Office, documents opens up pretty much the same on OnlyOffice. LibreOffice has improved compatibility in 7.1. I'll have to go more in depth with 7.1 these days but I only really need to use a word processor and OnlyOffice has the better one if you also use Microsoft Office. At least from my experience and perspective.
You are correct. The biggest problem with LibreOffice is compatibility. It's usually in the formatting, mainly fonts. I do think onlyoffice handles that transition in between it and MS Office better. I've testing 7.1 out and it does loot significantly better than previous versions. Thanks for watching.
another thing Only Office is ONLINE like Microsoft 365 while LibreOffice is not although you have to be online to collaborate with someone, send a doc as an email and stuff like thAT
Thanks! I think I'll go for Only Office, since all I want to do is to be able to print a written document, and it seems easier to use than LibreOffice.
I had a bad experience with onlyoffice. I was working once on my degree work and when i was trying to open onlyoffice with my work, it just delete the archive and i lost three weeks of work. It's a nice software pretty similar to microsoft, but to my is really insecure.
That's horrible. I would be upset if all of my hard work went down the drain. I'm sorry the experience was like that. I do appreciate the comment. Thank you.
I definitely understand the frustration of not finding videos in Portuguese. I hope you found some value in this video. I appreciate the feedback. Thanks again.
I agree - converting documents and spreadsheets back and forth is crucial for my husband's business which requires us to download and fill out spreadsheet forms and then also convert to pdfs and add digital signatures
@@jtrindle9383 LibreOffice, like a lot of Open Source programs, is frustrating at times. I think for a business that runs into issues like this Only Office seems to be less cumbersome in my experience.
@@AdrianReddix shucks - for years I was fine with Apache open office but was fouled up after they no longer included java - just loaded up Libre last month and now I need another! My old brain doesn't like learning new tricks but I will trust your recommendation. I hope it won't hurt to leave Libre installed also
@@jtrindle9383 It shouldn't be an issue other than it occupying space. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. The real choice is which weaknesses can you live with.
The math option looks very interesting. It certainly would have been useful when I was in school, but I'm sure it will also be useful in the future, since I'm studying electronic engineering rn. Thanks a lot for the video. I have a question: can LibreOffice export Microsoft office file formats? Like .docx?
Yes, but Libreoffice is notoriously not as compatible as other office suites. As long as there isn't any fonts/formatting MS Office doesn't recognize it should be OK. I've had great success with the classics like Arial and Times New Roman. I definitely have learned a lot about Math since thus video. It's pretty powerful.
@@AdrianReddix You are welcome. They fit well when you want a light system. I use it one my Arch Xfce setup as well as my desktop Debian Xfce on testing.
@@TheBlueThird I'm always looking for new software, especially open source. I currently run elementary.io on a desktop with a couple of vm Linux machines and something lightweight would be excellent to try on them.
If you need light editing, Draw can be used. Mind you there's a learning curve. Another free option is okular. Any advanced editing I would use a paid software like nuance or Adobe.
If someone is a college or university student in the field of mathematics, physics and any engineering then math will be used extensively. LibreOffice also has a toolbar similar to MS Office but it needs to be selected in the preferences. A lot of governments have converted to LibreOffice because MS Office could not support their own old file formats with the latest MS Office and they run into problems opening their very old MS Office files. With OpenOffice you never loose information because it is an XML format and you can even open it with your own software if you want to, even in plain text editor Draw is excellent for using flow charts as well, like software development. I used OpenOffice before LibreOffice came along which stems from OpenOffice.
@@AdrianReddix actually there are several toolbar options but the location I said was wrong. It is in menu View->User Interface->Tabbed and there are other options there. Where I mentioned this setting location initially is in menu Tools->Options->View where you can set different icon styles not the toolbar look. I like this link where it shows where LibreOffice came from www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/ and here what improvements were made and the new ones planned wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0 and the multitude of language versions that can be downloaded here www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=win-x86_64&version=7.0.1&lang=pick
Hi, I've been looking for videos comparing the two and most were unwatchable/poorly made. This was very well made and you talked about what I wanted to hear. Great video I hope your channel blows up. Subscribed.
Thank you for the kind words. I just wanted to make something that I wanted to see. I don't do it hoping my channel gets big. I do it because it's what I love doing. Thanks again.
Oh, I like this guy very humble made every effort to explain the program one nice thing he made me chuckle when a fly was buzzing on his head. Very good explanation and also send a message to those that it is nice to donate if it really helped them considering the pirates charging big amounts.
I do appreciate the comment. I believe if you are in a financial place to do so and get value from open source software it should be something to consider. The fly was the real star of the video.
I had the exact opposite experience than you in regardsd to look. LibreOffice's design makes more sense because every feature is explained and all the options are listed in the file menu and the settings dialog. OnlyOffice made no sense to me because everything is a button and it's impssible to find things there. So I guess it comes down to what you're used to. For me, MS office lacks in professionalism and features compared to LibreOffice.
I definitely understand that. I think you made a good point about using what is more familiar to your workflow. Over the past however many years, LibreOffice has been my favorite for the reasons you listed. Thank you for the input.
They are both better than ms office in a lot of ways, especially libreoffice. But ms office just does everything right, for example ui, libreoffice sucks, onlyoffice is good, ms office is good, equations (which I use a lot because I'm an engineering student) ms office ink equation is very good, libreoffice math is outstanding, literally the best thing out there, but onlyoffice math sucks, ms office powerpoint, it is just the best, neither libreoffice nor onlyoffice can come closer to that, especially the design ideas of powerpoint. Spreadsheet, all of them are good, document writer all of them are good, etc etc. If onlyoffice or libreoffice gets a design ideas update for their presentations, noone will be using ms office ever
