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OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly. When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look s
by nh2 3y ago
OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly.
When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look significantly different than in Word after all these years. In OnlyOffice they look exactly like in Word.
So it replaced Word-in-Wine for me.
- Scarbutt 3y agoThe elephant in the room is excel not word IMO.
- easygenes 3y agoSo how does OnlyOffice's Excel replacement compare?
- taskforcegemini 3y agoin my recent (less than a year ago) experiments both struggled with excel files in different ways (some content missing), so can't be trusted as a drop-in-replacement, at least not for already existing documents.
- KronisLV 3y ago> OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly. I remember also looking at WPS Office for this and it seemed mostly okay to me: https://www.wps.com/office/ https://www.wps.com/office/ (though no source code available, at least it doesn't seem so) Then again, LibreOffice feels like the most trustworthy option out there for me (and is the default in many Linux distros), so I ended up just using that, any drawbacks and all. Nowadays I use LibreOffice on all my computers and have basically gotten rid of MS Office altogether. If I ever need to send someone something that looks consistent across all devices, there's PDF/A. I've actually used PDFs for presentations as well with no issues, especially after the inconsistencies of LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint made one of my past presentations look like an utter mess on someone else's computer (fonts/locations were all wrong).
- Karellen 3y ago> When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look significantly different than in Word after all these years. Huh, I've not had that issue with the documents I've worked with in the best part of a decade. What is it that's different for you? Page layout, text wrapping/length, image support, table formatting? Something else? What platform are you using, and if you're not on Windows do you have the equivalent-metric Liberation font families installed so that docs which rely on non-redistributable proprietary Microsoft fonts can be rendered properly? https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/08/libreoffice-tt-replacing-microsoft-fonts/ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/08/libreoff...
- SR2Z 3y agoEven a Times New Roman doc or one that bundles its fonts won't render right. It's pretty bad, actually - it was only really fixed by MS allowing saving as ODT.