
Good news is that even though the style is not the same, functionality is there, you can open up the problematic. This is good news for all those who enjoy the look of Office 2003, but not for all those that fancy Word 2010 design more. docx.įrom the interface screenshot you can see how very similar LibreOffice Writer is to Word, just not Word 2007 or 2010.

LibreOffice Writer is the free alternative to Microsoft’s Office Word and it can even open up Word formats like. OpenOffice was the flagship office suite of the open source community but then the company which was backing OpenOffice, Sun Microsystems, was bought by Oracle and in fear that their favorite office suit will become a commercial product, the open source community forked OpenOffice thus creating LibreOffice. Libre Office is a sibling of OpenOffice, in fact you could say that OpenOffice is an ancestor of LibreOffice because Libre is built on top of the OpenOffice code. There are also other useful utilities like Math and Draw which can be used for writing mathematical equations in case of Math and to draw logos and flowcharts in case of Draw. You can probably guess on your own what some of these are, Writer is LibreOffice equivalent to Office Word, Impress to Power Point, Calc to Excel and Base to Access.

Set of tools that hides behind LibreOffice is really amazing, you get: You get practically everything with LibreOffice, which is not the case with similar office programs that we reviewed before, like Kingsoft Office.

LibreOffice is one of the best free alternatives to Microsoft’s Office, because it offers the most complete office suit out there.
