I'm using LibreOffice for 2 years now, it's working great for me, 7.3 version is even more compatible with MS Office, in case you need. The community is very active on the official forum, so you can learn and ask for help whenever you want to use a function that is sligthly different from MS.
I used to be a MS office fan until they charged a monthly fee. Now I'm grateful for Apache Open Office. Thanks for sharing these options and commenting on each.
I didn't realize how refreshing it would be to stumble on a channel that finally aligns with my outlook regarding my data not being used as a product. Thanks for the suggestions. Subscribed and tweeted about you to my followers.
My excel 2007 refused to open any of my excel spreadsheets but thankfully they just dropped in to the open LibreOffice application and could then be worked on and saved as LibreOffice files. This video was a great hep, thank you.
Well i ve used all of them and for me the fifth spot pick has better file compatibility than all the others but in terms of feature set and software libre is the only one that actually features a database package you can use. Stay away from Calligra office suite its compatibility for word is lower than abiword without its many many extensions. Only desktop is good and one of the leaner ones if your on a pc or netbook thats older and possibly celeron powered.
I bought Softmaker Office (the paid version of Freeoffice), and it was beautiful until I started to use some serious Tab programing on Sheets, then lot's of equations and formules were missing. I tryied support and they told me that it wasn't able to handle them yet. So I went back to MS, but still waiting for some Softmaker updates
I do like MS Office. Generally I think it's excellent.... But I'm trying to say Goodbye to spying so I'm shifting to Linux and LibreOffice. People forget how much time they spent learning Office and believe that LO is too hard... because they are instantly trying to be at the same proficiency as they were with MS Office. I've been sticking to learning LO and its grown on my and I quite like it. Still has a couple of things that need improvement on but overall I think it's a superb alternative to MS Office.
'People forget how much time they spent learning Office'. Indeed. I was a "super user" and virtually never touched the mouse because I was a keystroke user. Then came the bloody horrid RIBBON and classic interface was no more. Functionality was lost and menu items moved from their logical place. Fortunately, I did not have to put up with the monstrosity for too long before I left the world of work.
I have MS Office 2007 Business Edition, which came with a large amount of apps other than Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It is not a subscription based app suite. MS Office 360 requires that you are subscribed, which means you pay continuously for the duration of your use. I won't go down that road, as it smacks of greed on the part of Microsoft! Not gonna get sucked into that!
I don’t know you, but this video makes me wonder and reflect how much a brand can screw up their flagship software (and themselves) when some of the free alternatives to said software are and/or become better than the original.
Me? IT guy 30 plus years. Specialized in MS Office and Server Technologies. Why? Most all business oriented Microsoft applications like MS Project, Sharepoint, MS Exchange were all born from MS Office. Core MS Office apps are complicated and users utilize far less than 10% of any of those apps during the course of either their business related activities or their free time activities. Waste of money? Yes they are. Get an open source office suite and pay them for it or donate their asking donation and you will reap the benefits. Cheers. Oh, I run Linux on most all of my customers and personal machines with open source apps!
Time to try a new office program. Apache Open Office crashes every few minutes. It's a game of saving every 30 seconds because I never know when the next "Bad allocation" error will wipe out my progress. Recovery just sends me back to my last save point.
Hello I use WPS Office it looks and works like MS Office. Big advantage if you use a Linux system.Also WPS has the cloud version where you can edit and save your work.On the cloud you will get 2GB of free to use.I also used Libre Office.Libre is very good as well.But if you are used with all the tabs and features from MS Office then WPS is I think the best choise .
I actually had some format issues between MS Office Online and MS Office 365 that I find very strange. Also I think MS Office Online is not really comfortable to use (couldnt find how to make spaces between separate pages to make a document not look like a toilet paper roll, a lot of actions just to transfer a saved doc to me desktop etc.). I still have a prepaid subscription to MS Office 365 which I quite like but I think I am going to switch to an alternative with so many good free apps after it expires.
I used LibreOffice before, but it's not the best. It would be nice if they had more customizable themes for each certain program. Color codes are extremely important in my book.
They can. They may have a couple of compatibility issues and not get the formatting right, but for the most part they will open and edit existing MS Office files fine.
Can you use mail like Microsoft 365 in this software for the client? How much storage do I get here in the cloud and how much in Mail? Can someone tell me?
Thunderbird is more like a multiclient email application host, not provider like Microsoft does with Outlook. But it's very useful if you sync the accounts the right way.
Exactly this, Thunderbird after all these years seems stuck in 2010. Still no exchange support other than an "add on" that doesn't work. Their signature handling is beyond outdated. I've tried Mailspring and Bluemail as well, neither of them compare to Outlook. So I'm still running Windows on Virtual Box inside my Linux in order to have Outlook. Sad really... And don't get me started on the poor handling at this point of Printing in Linux.
@@alandunaway3000 Outlook was first their email client and that is the discussion. Outlook email is just the rebrand of Hotmail. I think you knew exactly the subject and why I said what I said. I'm not new to Linux,, so I know exactly what I said and why.. There hasn't been Outlook Express in about a decade, it's just Outlook even on the download. The only way to use the Web version is to get an MS email, but once again that's not the subject or discussion at hand.......
Stop buying MS Office when they stop the upgrade path and the full version is hard to justify. Switched to LibreOffice and never looked back. I even deleted the MS Office that came with my new computer, don't needed.
First if All, Note Down All the Fonts in the PDF. Second of All, Make a Copy of the Original PDF and edit the Copy alone. Third Of All, These Software do edit the Text (Not Sure about Scribus). Finally, if this isn't enough, you can convert the PDF into a DOCX (Word) File for more editing (but with compatibility issues). Free PDF Editors : • LibreOffice Draw • MS Word • Inkscape • Photopea • Scribus (Not Sure) • DeftPDF • Sejda etc,.
You just missed the fact that the new Libre Office is now pretty look alike as MS Office programs, you just have to change that apparence from within the settings.
LibreOffice has some serious performance issues on the extreme ends that MS Office doesn't (though their Draw program is substantially more performant than Publisher). If you try to edit a very long text document in Writer, it hangs and crashes consistently. Normally you'd never encounter this issue, but if you're an author writing a book series, it makes a big difference.
it would be nice if you went more into specifics why these are the best. butt other than that great. So far I've only tried Open Office and Libre Office.
My problem a year ago with LOis the dark mode… in dark mode, I cant see the tools and makes it difficult to view things. Then I hope their spreadsheet has better options to print preview….
What many businesses don't consider is the data being mined from them and their employees. From simple analytics and cloning - like what Amazon does with Amazon branded clones of small company products sold on their platforms, through to price negotiations where 'the bottom line' is known by your customers...
Just a comment regarding LO's portable versions: for my 8GB ram laptop, it's extremely slippery, lagging and freezy all the time. I intend to download the actual installation setup, but last time I did it the toolbar was all messed. Hopefully there's a manner to import the settings from one to another (If anyone has any idea Id be interested about listening to it) UPDATE: so far the desktop version is quite going, probably was a build problem on the portable side.
Absolutely!! Just backup the Libreoffice folder in Your Appdata/Roaming folder to a USB drive or wherever and just copy the folder to the Roaming folder on the other computer you have Libre on. For good measure. delete the current Libreoffice folder on the other computer and replace it with the one you copied.
for personal stuff all these "alternatives" are fine. for corporate environment chances to replace amazing power and depth of Excel are "small" ... pretty much the same with Outlook....forcing people to retrain is in the end counterproductive. hehe just losing one valuable employee due to this may cost more in the end than "saving" by using some shady fly by night web based crap.
I've been using LibreOffice a lot lately for obvious reasons. A Bad Flaw just popped up: I have several Avery Label Templates in use. Recently I had to use a template that I don't use too often. I needed to print Literally halfway down the page. Print Preview showed it was supposed to be. It printed instead Right At The Very Top where the space is empty. Nice smudge mark LibreOffice.
Free office is use to safe or not ? Please answer..... Because i use free office last 3 months....... & Today i read free office terms and condition..... I don't understand terms and conditions .....😢
I'm just amused Microsoft Word hasn't given me a single reason to upgrade over the last decade from Word 2013. I am still waiting for them to let me change icons in the Ribbon and edit right-click menus. You know the stuff I could do with ease with Word XP which let me do anything I wanted with the interface that I might still be using if it still ran.
I like OnlyOffice, but there's one thing that they're lacking: Word count. I even tried the third party plugin for it, but it didn't work for me. It'd be nice if they had the word count on the bottom toolbar.
@@KurisuKagato yes. And also onlyoffice excel is having less design functions.. looks like outdated excel app. But for doc onlyoffice is my best .easy to go
You mention the hefty subscription price of Office 365. But remember that that subscription also includes1Tb cloud storage. In my eyes that cuts the cost pretty much in half, at which point Office 365 becomes more reasonably priced.
yeah then some hacker busts their servers and all of a sudden your data is in the hands of anonymous LOL sorry... call me old school but I wouldn't trust the cloud with any sensitive data.
I'm using LibreOffice for 2 years now, it's working great for me, 7.3 version is even more compatible with MS Office, in case you need. The community is very active on the official forum, so you can learn and ask for help whenever you want to use a function that is sligthly different from MS.
I used to be a MS office fan until they charged a monthly fee. Now I'm grateful for Apache Open Office. Thanks for sharing these options and commenting on each.
thwy have office without montly fee for like forever
you can still buy Office standalone...
Been using Libre Office for over 2 years now. One of the features I use quite often is export to PDF. Love this program!!
I didn't realize how refreshing it would be to stumble on a channel that finally aligns with my outlook regarding my data not being used as a product. Thanks for the suggestions. Subscribed and tweeted about you to my followers.
My excel 2007 refused to open any of my excel spreadsheets but thankfully they just dropped in to the open LibreOffice application and could then be worked on and saved as LibreOffice files. This video was a great hep, thank you.
As for my laptop, I've been using Open Office, moved to Star Office 5.2 and then to Libre Office and still using the latest 7.2 version today.
The best alternative is a pirated version of Office.
No Cloud Features.
Never worked here.
No, best is original office.
😂😂 everyone is using this
@@PratapDewangan No, I am not. I use original copy of Office obtained unethically.
This is exactly the information I was looking for and the video is extremely well put together. You are a legend, thank you!
Thank you sooo much I needed this!!!!💕
OK
Using Libre Office for simple home use.
This is very good, thanks a lot, can clearly see how microsoft paywalls tools that in this day and age are necessary.
Well i ve used all of them and for me the fifth spot pick has better file compatibility than all the others but in terms of feature set and software libre is the only one that actually features a database package you can use. Stay away from Calligra office suite its compatibility for word is lower than abiword without its many many extensions. Only desktop is good and one of the leaner ones if your on a pc or netbook thats older and possibly celeron powered.
Wps office is definitely the best to use and ive never encountered ads problems.
For Windows users could it be, but for Linux ones I don't think so.
Been using Libre office for years and never regretted (Never going back to Microsoft Windows from Linux)
I use as much opensource as i can, but linux is too specific as a daily computer... Windows is just much superior at so many things.
@@robersniper Yes.
Open Office is very good too. I am surprised you forgot about it.
It was mentioned.
I absolutely love SoftMaker FreeOffice. I've been using it for the past few years with absolutely no problem.
and their commercial licenses is so low priced, about 100€ for 5 users
I bought Softmaker Office (the paid version of Freeoffice), and it was beautiful until I started to use some serious Tab programing on Sheets, then lot's of equations and formules were missing. I tryied support and they told me that it wasn't able to handle them yet. So I went back to MS, but still waiting for some Softmaker updates
It works! Thanks a lot.
Libre looks promising. Thank you.
Thanks for a very informative video. I personally use Libre and WPS but I've tried all the ones in the video and all are very good.
I do like MS Office. Generally I think it's excellent.... But I'm trying to say Goodbye to spying so I'm shifting to Linux and LibreOffice. People forget how much time they spent learning Office and believe that LO is too hard... because they are instantly trying to be at the same proficiency as they were with MS Office. I've been sticking to learning LO and its grown on my and I quite like it. Still has a couple of things that need improvement on but overall I think it's a superb alternative to MS Office.
'People forget how much time they spent learning Office'. Indeed. I was a "super user" and virtually never touched the mouse because I was a keystroke user. Then came the bloody horrid RIBBON and classic interface was no more. Functionality was lost and menu items moved from their logical place. Fortunately, I did not have to put up with the monstrosity for too long before I left the world of work.
I have MS Office 2007 Business Edition, which came with a large amount of apps other than Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It is not a subscription based app suite. MS Office 360 requires that you are subscribed, which means you pay continuously for the duration of your use. I won't go down that road, as it smacks of greed on the part of Microsoft! Not gonna get sucked into that!
Very helpful video.
I don’t know you, but this video makes me wonder and reflect how much a brand can screw up their flagship software (and themselves) when some of the free alternatives to said software are and/or become better than the original.
5:45
" You use it for free and if you yourself doesn't mind being the product all you need is a google account"
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Very helpful. Many Thanks!
Thank you for making this great video! Very helpful
I really love how you explain everything 💗
Thanks This was very helpful!!
Me? IT guy 30 plus years. Specialized in MS Office and Server Technologies. Why? Most all business oriented Microsoft applications like MS Project, Sharepoint, MS Exchange were all born from MS Office. Core MS Office apps are complicated and users utilize far less than 10% of any of those apps during the course of either their business related activities or their free time activities. Waste of money? Yes they are. Get an open source office suite and pay them for it or donate their asking donation and you will reap the benefits. Cheers. Oh, I run Linux on most all of my customers and personal machines with open source apps!
I use Libre Office and I enjoy using it
you rock thanks. I hope your are rich beyond your wildest dreams. all the best neal sw fla
Awesome. This was very helpful. Good job as usual.
Time to try a new office program. Apache Open Office crashes every few minutes. It's a game of saving every 30 seconds because I never know when the next "Bad allocation" error will wipe out my progress. Recovery just sends me back to my last save point.
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As always, great presentation. I am going to add Libra to my Surface Pro. Thanks again.
Hello I use WPS Office it looks and works like MS Office. Big advantage if you use a Linux system.Also WPS has the cloud version where you can edit and save your work.On the cloud you will get 2GB of free to use.I also used Libre Office.Libre is very good as well.But if you are used with all the tabs and features from MS Office then WPS is I think the best choise .
What about Office Suite? Bulgarian software, they also have free version.
Beautiful!
Good video....💯💯
Keep it up !!
Good review!!
Thank you for this.
WPS is the best, but you have to turn off ads manually
I use wps office because compatibility is the best
I actually had some format issues between MS Office Online and MS Office 365 that I find very strange. Also I think MS Office Online is not really comfortable to use (couldnt find how to make spaces between separate pages to make a document not look like a toilet paper roll, a lot of actions just to transfer a saved doc to me desktop etc.). I still have a prepaid subscription to MS Office 365 which I quite like but I think I am going to switch to an alternative with so many good free apps after it expires.
Thank you TechGumbo ...
I used LibreOffice before, but it's not the best. It would be nice if they had more customizable themes for each certain program. Color codes are extremely important in my book.
Great 👍 ones
Please, which one is better?
Thank you . . .
Onlyoffice or WPS office
FreeOffice
Open Office has served me extremely well for years. I plan to stay with Open Office.
Me too. I love OpenOffice, been the trusted one for me.
Libre Office is forked from Open Office which is discontinued now
@@pumpkin162 Except it works great on my laptop.
@@SilverSergeant Yeah I didn't say it's unstable. I said it's discontinued.
@@pumpkin162 I didn't say you said that. I said it still works well.
Libre Office still have a lot of issues when opening xlsx files , Wps works fine there.
Free is my favorite flavor.
...if it's good and has no intrusive ads
so what is the best office to export to PDF? i used libreoffice and it didn't save the text alignment.
Microsoft Office Suite.
@@garfield-pro i would never ask the question in this video's comment section if i use microsoft office..
FreeOffice
LIbre Office 😍
thanks alot
Can these free software open, edit (and save as new file) my existing Microsoft office Excel, Word and Powerpoint files?
They can. They may have a couple of compatibility issues and not get the formatting right, but for the most part they will open and edit existing MS Office files fine.
Can you use mail like Microsoft 365 in this software for the client?
How much storage do I get here in the cloud and how much in Mail?
Can someone tell me?
All Office Alternatives Lack Microsoft OUTLOOK replacement, can you help on that in office Bundles (Not tools like Thunderbird)
Thunderbird is more like a multiclient email application host, not provider like Microsoft does with Outlook. But it's very useful if you sync the accounts the right way.
Exactly this, Thunderbird after all these years seems stuck in 2010. Still no exchange support other than an "add on" that doesn't work. Their signature handling is beyond outdated. I've tried Mailspring and Bluemail as well, neither of them compare to Outlook. So I'm still running Windows on Virtual Box inside my Linux in order to have Outlook. Sad really... And don't get me started on the poor handling at this point of Printing in Linux.
@@citizenkimi Outlook is an email client it is not a provider. Outlook as always been MS's email client.
Outlook is both a email provider(web) and a email downloader(Outlook Express/MS Outlook).
@@alandunaway3000 Outlook was first their email client and that is the discussion. Outlook email is just the rebrand of Hotmail. I think you knew exactly the subject and why I said what I said. I'm not new to Linux,, so I know exactly what I said and why.. There hasn't been Outlook Express in about a decade, it's just Outlook even on the download. The only way to use the Web version is to get an MS email, but once again that's not the subject or discussion at hand.......
thank you
Any Microsoft Fan gooys here
I have already used all of 'em only to get MS Office itself.
But all of 'em are powerful enough and are one of the best one could get.
Using Libreoffice, are you able to convert documents created by Microsoft Office 365 and not loode anything?
WPS is an absolute savior I fuckin' love it
Stop buying MS Office when they stop the upgrade path and the full version is hard to justify. Switched to LibreOffice and never looked back. I even deleted the MS Office that came with my new computer, don't needed.
Pdf editors video please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
First if All, Note Down All the Fonts in the PDF.
Second of All, Make a Copy of the Original PDF and edit the Copy alone.
Third Of All, These Software do edit the Text (Not Sure about Scribus).
Finally, if this isn't enough, you can convert the PDF into a DOCX (Word) File for more editing (but with compatibility issues).
Free PDF Editors :
• LibreOffice Draw
• MS Word
• Inkscape
• Photopea
• Scribus (Not Sure)
• DeftPDF
• Sejda
etc,.
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That or you could just use a KMS tool and activate your Microsoft Office and Windows itself (if pirated)
You just missed the fact that the new Libre Office is now pretty look alike as MS Office programs, you just have to change that apparence from within the settings.
Too Ugly.
Not even close to MS Office.
I do like MS Office
Do any of these offer an Outlook alternative that connects to on-prem Exchange?
"Only office" is great
@TechGumbo can you do a video on online project management tools?
LibreOffice has some serious performance issues on the extreme ends that MS Office doesn't (though their Draw program is substantially more performant than Publisher).
If you try to edit a very long text document in Writer, it hangs and crashes consistently. Normally you'd never encounter this issue, but if you're an author writing a book series, it makes a big difference.
super! cheatwas easily installed
I think Microsoft office is simply the best and used almost everywhere but as a student Libre Office is fine. It is free and does all the work.
What alternatives support vba?
Does onlyoffice have anything other than the dark mode?
it would be nice if you went more into specifics why these are the best. butt other than that great.
So far I've only tried Open Office and Libre Office.
Libreoffice nightly builds are best. They blow away MS.
It lags alot on my pc and glitchy
Any solution?
I survive with WPS and G office suite
My problem a year ago with LOis the dark mode… in dark mode, I cant see the tools and makes it difficult to view things. Then I hope their spreadsheet has better options to print preview….
Good
I gonna download libre
I think I am the first view of this video.
thanks *_*
Linux guys assemble!!
WPS office.
What many businesses don't consider is the data being mined from them and their employees. From simple analytics and cloning - like what Amazon does with Amazon branded clones of small company products sold on their platforms, through to price negotiations where 'the bottom line' is known by your customers...
Just a comment regarding LO's portable versions: for my 8GB ram laptop, it's extremely slippery, lagging and freezy all the time. I intend to download the actual installation setup, but last time I did it the toolbar was all messed. Hopefully there's a manner to import the settings from one to another (If anyone has any idea Id be interested about listening to it)
UPDATE: so far the desktop version is quite going, probably was a build problem on the portable side.
Absolutely!! Just backup the Libreoffice folder in Your Appdata/Roaming folder to a USB drive or wherever and just copy the folder to the Roaming folder on the other computer you have Libre on. For good measure. delete the current Libreoffice folder on the other computer and replace it with the one you copied.
.exe versions is'nt available for excel.
for personal stuff all these "alternatives" are fine. for corporate environment chances to replace amazing power and depth of Excel are "small" ... pretty much the same with Outlook....forcing people to retrain is in the end counterproductive. hehe just losing one valuable employee due to this may cost more in the end than "saving" by using some shady fly by night web based crap.
billy dors shill here
I've been using LibreOffice a lot lately for obvious reasons. A Bad Flaw just popped up: I have several Avery Label Templates in use. Recently I had to use a template that I don't use too often. I needed to print Literally halfway down the page. Print Preview showed it was supposed to be. It printed instead Right At The Very Top where the space is empty. Nice smudge mark LibreOffice.
Free office is use to safe or not ?
Please answer.....
Because i use free office last 3 months.......
& Today i read free office terms and condition.....
I don't understand terms and conditions .....😢
Yes, FreeOffice is safe to use.
Microsoft Office is the best there is for all the gbs of security updates. Libre office free and brilliant no gbs of updates needed
I'm just amused Microsoft Word hasn't given me a single reason to upgrade over the last decade from Word 2013. I am still waiting for them to let me change icons in the Ribbon and edit right-click menus. You know the stuff I could do with ease with Word XP which let me do anything I wanted with the interface that I might still be using if it still ran.
Onlyoffice is way to go
I like OnlyOffice, but there's one thing that they're lacking: Word count. I even tried the third party plugin for it, but it didn't work for me. It'd be nice if they had the word count on the bottom toolbar.
@@KurisuKagato yes. And also onlyoffice excel is having less design functions.. looks like outdated excel app. But for doc onlyoffice is my best .easy to go
Sadly, Libre office still not compatible with Android on mobile devices - so it loses out.
I really don't get why it has yet to be ported.
I have more privacy concerns with Google Office than Chinese Office.
You mention the hefty subscription price of Office 365. But remember that that subscription also includes1Tb cloud storage. In my eyes that cuts the cost pretty much in half, at which point Office 365 becomes more reasonably priced.
yeah then some hacker busts their servers and all of a sudden your data is in the hands of anonymous LOL sorry... call me old school but I wouldn't trust the cloud with any sensitive data.
I prefer freeoffice. I dont need to buy Microsoft office after discovering them.
Was downloading WPS mid video, as soon as you said it was Chinese I canceled it.
WPS has officially stopped working since the new Microsoft update. I have to save all my assignments now.