I currently have Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007. It was installed for free when I had computer repaired. I used to use Libreoffice. If I download Libreoffice and uninstall Office 2007 will I still be able to access my saved Word and Excel documents?
Usually uninstall of software don’t affect the saved documents, as the documents are usually saved in your documnents folder. These stay even if the program is no longer available - but backups are ALWAYS a good idea.
To check:
- You may have saved Templates in folders of Word/Excel - identify, copy or move them.
- Do you use special features not available in LibreOffice? Then your documents are available, but some features may not work.
- An access-Database can not just be opened in LibreOffice, but has to be migrated, if necessary.
You may start by installing LibreOffice without removing MS-Office. Then you keep the ability to open your documents with the software which build them. But usually I’d recommend: Try to use only LibreOffice with OpenDocuments files - don’t mix usage.
J.
As Wanderer says, there is no need to uninstall Microsoft Office. I have both installed but I use MS Office for editing .docx and .xlsx that need to be shared. For all general work I use LibreOffice because Writer has better layout capabilities and better export to pdf as the main benefits but there are other good reasons.
Thank you both so much, this was exactly what I needed to know.