LibreOffice – Make It Compatible With MS Office & Office 365 | Layout & Fonts

LibreOffice – Make It Compatible With MS Office & Office 365 | Layout & Fonts

Revisiting a video on LibreOffice and how with just a few settings you can make it compatible with MS Office & Office 365. Take a look and let me know what you think in the comments below.

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[davebassi]

People clearly didn’t watch the video fully.
He tells you exactly how to make it MS compatible.
Thanks!

[robertleemeyer]

Here the word "compatible" means "look like" rather than 'functionally equivalent'. There are substantial differences between the way that Office handles certain items and the way that LibreOffice handles them. For example, documents (.docx) created in LibreOffice may not work properly when opened in MS Word, specifically headers, outlines and (most especially) tables. This is especially important when you are working remotely and writing documents in LibreOffice (because you love Linux) for a company that lives/breathes MS Office (because they are run by bean counters) and the documents you send to them -- full of multiple hierarchical sections and subsections and chock full of tables -- won't work properly when opened in MS Word. Not that this ever happened to me ... more than once a week.

[Skullysism]

it's little frustrating that youtube is a thumbnail and title and all around clickbait game ... good info does not go out there easily for people that needs it! your channel is one of the greatest linux and tech channels i know! I don't use LibreOffice but saved your video to send it to anyone on need keep up the good work Sir! 😁

[Melissalove]

Does anyone here know where I can get an Office key? I'm a bit desperate. I recently downloaded the programs and one came with malware that damaged my PC.

[jeffrodrequez]

Great video (as always). I guess I missed the initial post of this video, thanks for re-posting, very helpful!

[sweetypie]

Great video! Very detailed and informative. This is easy to understand and follow. Thanks for the time you put into this . Much appreciated.

[RetosSpace]

Troy putting out Excellent Content and at a Furious pace, Well Done!! You have no idea how much you have helped a noob like me in this Linux journey..Thank You from Cape Town, South Africa!

[Hubbabub]

Two other fonts that can make a document more compatible with MS Office is
ttf-carlito - A sans-serif font metrically compatible with Calibri
ttf-caladea - A serif font metrically compatible with Cambria

[TM]

Troy, thank you for this, this really helped out greatly!

[stevenmendoza]

Hey I was having the same problem with the fonts on Solus plasma and KDE Neon... so I copied a Windows fonts Folder and Used KDE Font Management, Install from file... and that worked for me all the Fonts I needed...working in LibreOffice and OnlyOffice ... My LibreOffice Icon Theme ( Oxygen ) with the (Grouped Bar Compact) User Interface ... Nice Video Great

[fullscaleme]

Excellent point of downloading the MS True Type fonts as it fixes minor alignment glitches seen when printers are different. I would turn off 'Always ask if not saving in ODF format' and turn on auto-save with a shorter time. I like 5 minutes as I live in a hurricane susceptible area so seasonal power outages are frequent.

Other niceties: enable create backup (off by default - WHY???), turn on 'fill in header 'Edit document properties before saving' and enable more spelling and grammar settings in 'Langauge Settings'.

[felixandy]

You forgot to mention that you need to change the save-types for the other apps, not just writer. You have to change Calc to save as xlsx and impress to pptx, etc.

[genkiferal]

I added two extensions and now there is a huge ugly lighter grey toolbar under the original main toolbar. How can I toggle this off? My monitor is too small for such wasted space.

[Jana-xnh]

Can I use Gmail to email docs from libreoffice?

[TheSillybits]

Very handy indeed, thanks a lot! I have another issue too though, maybe you know the answer to that as well: In MS Word when dragging and dropping an image into a table, the table / column adjusts / stretches to the image size if bigger. Thats very handy because when I prepare all images on a certain size beforehand, I can neatly drag and drop them in without messing op the table proportions.

Now in Libre Office that doesn’t happen. No matter what image size, the table / column size dictates the size of the image resulting into a lot of work adjusting (resizing) the images one after the other in the table in the Libre Office document.

Do you get what I am trying to explain? If so I would be most obliged to learn how to get the same behavior as in Word with Libre Office. Thanks!

[Farrywind]

My main issue is trying to use the Microsoft access database on Linux. It doesn’t seem there is much of a solution for that as you have to convert the whole database to a different format to use it. Which doesn’t work for my use case because the database needs to be accessed by both windows and Linux computers. Windows virtualization seem like the only answer.

[ramaningle]

How did you get that green colour for your tab/buttons? Please share.

[JDY]

do you have window on WPS application?

[NADEEMKHAN-sjhn]

Does it change automatically because i install it from chaotic aur on tromjaro and when i go to settings it shows all set to Times new roman as default

[krisballard]

I have written six books using LibreOffice in Windows. Sadly, though, there is always a problem when I send my books to my editor. Hopefully, things will go more smoothly when I send my next book to my editor,