[Closed] libreoffice?

Libre Office and Open Office share roots. Long story short, you want Libre Office for personal use and Open Office for Corporate deployment.

"How compatible" is a difficult question to quantify. "Mostly"?

I use OpenOffice at home. Have only used the work processor and spreadsheet, both of which are pretty intuitive and reasonably compatible with MS Office apart from some occasional odd formatting issues when saving down to other formats.

One of the nice things is that when you email a document from within the application itself, it prompts you to ask you what format you want to send it in which means you don't forget to save it down to MS Word format.

you want Libre Office for personal use

Why?

Personally, I think three copies of MS Office is one of the the best ways you can spend £80 on home IT.

If you have 3 windows machines to put it on.

Depends what you want/need. If it's just the odd letter here and there and a simple spreadsheet or 2, and nothing much in the way of macros, then Libre Office is more than enough.
If working from home, or taking work home and need actual MS compatibility, the MS i the way to go for sure.

Libreoffice claims to be compatible with MSoffice. I would need that compatability working on MS documents is what I need it for.

Maybe £95 is money well spent in this case. Anyone want 2 copies of Office 2010?

How about £25 each?

I like libre office, use it at work exclusivly, but I don't think libre or open office are that brilliant at compatibility to be honest, so if you really need exact compatibility then get the same version of office as the other users.

if you really need exact compatibility then get the same version of office as the other users.

The exact bit is important. I've found open office to be at least as compatible with MS office as MS office is with other versions of MS office. Open Office is perfectly fine for simple documents and spreadsheets. Never had any issues with compatibility, just lost the odd bit of formatting. One big plus is that open office will open pretty much anything where as MS office is a bit fussier about formats and versions.

TBH after I wrote that I thought, I have had compatibility issues between two recent versions of MSoffice, just because poeple set their defaults differently, seeing as you are always likely to have issues you may as well get libre office and cope for free...

What do folks recommend fo iPad?