Hi,
I work for a company that is considering making LibreOffice (4.2.4.2) available to it’s users as an alternative to Microsot Office 2013 and as a sort of local (offline) compliment to Microsoft Office Online (Office 365). I’m trying to compare features available in the three solutions and haven’t really been able to find a comprehensive list of features available in LibreOffice.
Specifically, I’m trying to compare Writer, Calc and Impress to Word/Excel/PowerPoint (online and offline) using the feature lists Microsoft has listed here as a basis:
Technet Article “Compare feature availability across Word Online and Word 2013 desktop app”
Technet Article “Compare feature availability across Excel Online and Excel 2013 desktop app”
Technet Article “Compare feature availability across PowerPoint Online and PowerPoint 2013 desktop”
Can any LibreOffice guru’s hit me up with a quick yes/no next to these features for Writer?
- Full fidelity reading view
- Font formatting
- Bullets and numbering
- Hyperlinks
- Picture tools
- Insert online pictures
- SmartArt
- Apply styles
- Simple table creation
- Rich table formatting
- Undo and Redo
- Autosave
- Clipboard
- Find and Replace
- Word count
- Zoom
- Real-time co-authoring
- View and add comments
- Share
- Collaboration- advanced
- Lists
- Page layout tools
- Headers and footers
- Page breaks
- Page numbers
- Page layout tools- advanced
- Print to PDF
- Printing- advanced
- Proofing tools
- Proofing tools- advanced
- Save As and Download a copy
- Offline viewing and authoring
- Alignment guides and live layout
- Browse and start from professionally
designed templates - Creation of advanced document
elements - Document parts and themes
- Paragraph formatting
- IRM and password-protection
- Mail merge
- Present online
- Reference tools
- Table of Contents
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Citations and bibliography
- Document translation
- Table of Authority
- Tell Me
- Captions
- Rich media
- Apps for Office
- VBA and Forms scripts
… These features for Calc:
- Full fidelity reading view
- Number formatting
- Font and cell formatting
- Copy and paste
- Drag and drop cells
- GoTo
- Undo and redo
- Merge cells
- Alignment
- Create tables
- Insert charts
- Fill Handle
- Formula bar
- Status bar aggregates
- Functions (approx.400)
- Hide/unhide rows, columns, and sheets
- Autocomplete
- Auto Sum
- Formula tools- advanced
- Insert/delete rows and columns
- Rename and add sheets
- Rename file while workbook is open
- Add hyperlinks
- Sort and filter data
- Refresh existing data connections
- Find
- Replace
- View 3D charts
- Slicer viewing
- Save or Download a copy
- Share
- Real-time co-authoring
- Embed Workbook on Web or Blog Page
(OneDrive) - Surveys
- Offline viewing and authoring
- Freeze panes
- Apply conditional formatting
- Comment creation
- Recommended chart creation and
editing with formatting controls - Advanced time filtering (Timeline
slicer) - Create external data connections
- What if analysis tools
- Creation of advanced analysis views
(((Power View, PowerPivot, Slicers) - Chart animations adapt to new data
- Apply data validation to cells
- Rights Management: IRM and password
security - Apply smart/recommended formatting
- PowerPivot viewing
- Power View viewing
- Post to Social network and present
online - Spreadsheet audit and compliance
- Apps for Office
- VBA and macro scripting
- Tell Me
… And these features for Impress?
- Full fidelity reading view
- Font formatting
- Alignment, bullets, numbers
- Pictures
- Insert rich media
- Shapes
- SmartArt
- Hyperlinks
- View and edit slide notes
- Create and manage slides
- Apply themes and theme variants
- Apply basic transitions and
animations - Full selection of animations and
transitions - Arrange objects
- Undo and redo
- Clipboard
- Share
- View and add comments
- Real-time co-authoring
- Save As or Download a copy
- Print to PDF
- Navigation—slide sorter
- Proofing tools
- Run Slide Show
- Slideshow
- Embed presentation on web or blog
page - Tell Me
- Offline viewing and authoring
- Table creation/editing and formatting
- Design tools- advanced
- Reviewer tools- advanced
- Create custom animation
- Apply rich formatting to text,
shapes, and pictures - Broadcast slide show
- Rights management: Apply and consume
IRM and password protection - Full ink support
- Headers and footers
- Integration with Excel for charts
- Present online through Lync or the
Office Presentation Service - Presenter view
- Apps for Office
Thanks for any help! Obviously some of these are pretty easy to test myself, but as I’m not all that familiar with LibreOffice. With the more advanced features, it’s probably just easier to ask the experts.