12/28/2022 0 Comments Wps office vs libreoffice![]() Recently I heard about WPS office, not open source, but at least supporting a free version for Windows and Linux (and mobile)… I was extremely interested in its support to MS office files, and I was quite surprised: Everything I tried so far (which LO unluckily messes up) works just like a charm with WPS, all docx, xlsx, and pptx files are correctly opened, editing works quite similar to MS office. ![]() I always thought that LO’s support for MS office formats is the maximum you can expect from non-MS software, since these are proprietary: Theoretically standardized, in face MS is the only one defining and changing the standard, even including binary parts in doucments only MS office understands… or at least I always thought it would be. not PDFs) with other people, in almost all cases in practice you will receive a MS office file… somehow annoying, but reality. ![]() However, in reality if you exchange files (editable, i.e. to the open document formats, objectively comparing them I personally would prefer the non-proprietary ISO-standardized open formats. So why not use open document formats instead? Well, if this was my choice I would completely switch over from docx, xlsx, etc. Further, saving can be really problematic, saving a pptx with impress even might cause PowerPoint to resist to open the file. try to open a pptx with slides containing formulas, Impress totally messes up the respective slides. To my experience, opening usually works but unluckily some elements are messed up, e. I must say, both of these in-browser tools are nice but still dont come close to. I am using LibreOffice for years now, both on Windows and Linux… however, regularly I have to open and sometimes even to save MS office files. Recently I switched to Office online like Microsoft suite and Google suite.
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