LibreOffice Overview 2016 V5.2

This is intended primarily for the first time Linux user or for the person that is held back from trying Linux software because they feel tied to MS Office. Libre Office 5.2 is a great option and it is Free!

[tomormiston]

A nice beginners guide to linux and its good to see a intro to LibreOffice, I'm a big fan of it!.. our family use it on Mac & Linux desktops.

Indeed I've hardly used MS Office since the early 2000s when I was doing a course that came with a licence copy of StarOffice. I then discovered that Sun had open sourced StarOffice and relabeled it OpenOffice and subsequently got permission to have a copy of OpenOffice at work to test alongside Microsoft. It did everything I needed and from then on I was hooked on OpenOffice. I then converted to LibreOffice some years later when the OpenOffice/ LibreOffice fork happened. I've been a user of LibreOffice ever the since and I thoroughly recommend LibreOffice as _the_ go to application for office. Its key success is having a very high quality community behind it.

[nagendrarao]

great video, great software. well, I'm a windows user. I ones used open office, later I got into windows office 2013 usage, it was great and got used to Microsoft office. unfortunately, I never found it to be reasonable in price. now I got this software, I think I won't go back to ms office at all.

[eddieoconnor]

Yes I agree that it's an excellent replacement for MS Office. Have used it for school papers, resumes, and the like and the recipients have never had a problem opening them and reading them exactly a I've created them!

[arcarajoportorta]

Little tip to make LibreOffice even faster: disable Java in the options (Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Advanced), it doesn't need it anymore.

[serge]

Hello Rob ! I am watching your early videos and this one has a lot of flickering.
You can be sure I'll check it later ! :):):)
Best regards,
Serge

[Bigbadwhitecracker]

My experience is that the documents are almost always compatible with any version of office from 2007 on, unless you have something really weird inserted in the document.

Impress is a little trickier, but doable. Word art comes sometimes comes out and sometimes doesn't. Animations are also problematic. But if they are using Office 2010 and higher, impress is 95% compatible. If I'm doing a presentation somewhere and I've never used their equipment before, I made a pdf of my presentation as a back up. It's come in handy a couple of times.

The good news is that Libre office is now portable and I put portable editions on every body's computer where I do presentations. Problems solved! Check out portableapps.com