Free alternative for Office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice - formerly known as OpenOffice.org - is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications. OpenOffice is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores data in ODF - the international open standard format - and is able to read and write files in other formats, included the format used by the most common office suite packages. OpenOffice is also able to export files in PDF format. OpenOffice has supported extensions, in a similar manner to Mozilla Firefox, making easy to add new functionality to an existing OpenOffice installation.

Features

  • Cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
  • 170+ Languages
  • Extensions and Templates available
  • Commercial support available
  • New Sidebar
  • Interoperability Improvements for Text Documents, Spreadhseet Documents, Presentation Documents and OOXML file format in general
  • DrawObject Improvements/Enhancements
  • New Color Palette
  • New Gradients
  • New Gallery Themes and Gallery enhancements
  • Refined the Selection Handles User Interface
  • Refined Selection Visualization
  • Better Print Preview
  • Enhanced conversion to Bitmap Graphics
  • Enhanced Copy/Paste
  • Enhanced Drag&Drop
  • Adapt LineStart/End to LineWidth
  • SVG Export enhancements
  • SVG/Metafile Break improvement
  • SVG Import improvements
  • Picture Crop mode offers preview
  • Unified visualization of ColorPalette popup
  • Transparency support for pixel formats (PNG)
  • Connectors support rotation
  • Corrected Hatch fill style visualization
  • Better gradient support in metafiles
  • Calc and Chart Improvements/Enhancements
  • Support relative Pie Chart Height
  • New Functions: AVERAGEIFS, COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, XOR, LEFTB, RIGHTB, LENB, MIDB and RAND (reimplemented to use the Mersenne-Twister algorithm)
  • Extensions Improvements/Enhancement
  • New Toolbar management
  • Unified menu API
  • Performance Improvements/Enhancements
  • Many resource leaks were fixed
  • Speedup of Graphic Rendering
  • Additional Language Support
  • Changes that Impact Backwards Compatibility
  • Module binfilter removed (legacy StarOffice file formats (.sdw, .sdc, .sdd, etc.)
  • Python support updated
  • Support for system C++ STL

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License

Apache License V2.0

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User Reviews

  • I loved it before, but now when we have Google Docs I just don't need it on my computer anymore.
  • Llevo tiempo usando esta aplicación y me parece impresionante
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • I've used OpenOffice for years and think it's a good alternative to Microsoft Office. However, the graphical interface and functionality have not evolved much in recent years. The same can be said regarding compatibility with new file formats
  • Previously I have rated Apache OpenOffice as 5 stars. Now I rate the newest release, 4.1.15, as 1 star. Why? Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 does NOT work on macOS Monterey 12.7.2
    Reply from Apache OpenOffice
    Edited 2024-01-15
    It surely does work on the machines we have tested it on. Please contact our user forum to get help for your problem!
  • The draw package in OpenOffice sucks - Big time-, known problem printing to legal size paper since 2015, they refuse to fix the problem for Macintosh users. I am running the latest MacOS and all other parts of OpenOffice will print fine to legal but NOT Draw, Google "legal printing in OpenOffice draw" and you will find that this problem has been around for at least 8 years , could be more. Support - Non - Existent
    Reply from Apache OpenOffice
    Edited 2024-01-15
    OpenOffice is open source and is developed by volunteers and offered free of charge. Everyone can engage and help to fix problems. But complaining has never fixed a problem... ;-)
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Operating Systems

Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows

Languages

Thai, Tamil, Korean, French, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian, Slovene, Czech, Finnish, Italian, Hebrew, Catalan, Greek, Vietnamese, English, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Chinese (Traditional), Galician, Bulgarian, Swedish, Turkish, Hindi, Norwegian, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Basque (Euskara), Scottish Gaelic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop, Other Audience

User Interface

Gnome, X Window System (X11), Win32 (MS Windows), KDE, Cocoa (MacOS X)

Programming Language

BASIC, PL/SQL

Database Environment

Other file-based DBMS

Related Categories

BASIC Word Processors, BASIC Spreadsheet Software, BASIC Office Suites, PL/SQL Word Processors, PL/SQL Spreadsheet Software, PL/SQL Office Suites

Registered

2011-11-30

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