![]() NeoOffice is also far more integrated with Mac OS X than the Mac releases of LibreOffice. In turn, this allows NeoOffice to react to needs of its users in ways that others are unable to match. Microsoft Office vs LibreOfficeĪs an open source project, NeoOffice is free to incorporate useful code from other open source projects that corporate products often cannot use. Some other software developers have similar comparison pages those we are aware of are linked below. This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice with two comprable office suites, Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software. The NeoOffice community also offers support options, including the documentation in this wiki and read-only access to the forums, where priority support is available for NeoOffice donors.Īt the same time, other office suites also contain features missing in NeoOffice which may be indispensable to your work, and your purchase of commercial software generally assures the software has passed professional quality assurance and typically entitles you to professional technical support. Most importantly, NeoOffice is free and open source software, relieving you of costly licensing fees. NeoOffice has many advantages over other office suites, including, in some cases, Microsoft's Office. To see the version of this page comparing NeoOffice 3.1.1 with then-current versions of and Microsoft Office 2008, see NeoOffice 3.1.1 Feature Comparison. This page compares NeoOffice 3.3 to LibreOffice 3.6 and Microsoft Office 2011. I was really disappointed with LO as I too have read the articles describing the eventual demise of AO development and I can't understand the level of obvious issues with LO.N.B. Overall, the only positive thing I can say is that the visual GUI (icons) in LO are more modern. ![]() There were other issues, but at this point it was unusable for me. I also experienced total freezes several times. Implementation of fonts also appears different between AO and LO, labels display differently. Loading forms with over 1,000 record lists is much slower, and even closing one form and opening another is much slower. (maybe this can be changed, but I didn't see how in a cursory glance). Since my forms are all read only LO 5.x opens every form with a yellow bar across the top, notifying the user that form is read only. For example, list boxes on AO and LO use different bound fields, the font size can not be changed on controls on browse controls, and reverts to a standard 9pt SEGOE, no matter what font is specified on the control dialog. I have to say that I am mystified as to the number problems I had. I've tried porting my apps to LO 4.x and the new 5.x release. These are used in medical clinical offices and each contain over 1.1 Gb in code, forms, drawings and reports. I have written several database apps using AO BASE, HSQL split DB. Then I could copy a range of cells, select the icon in the data source browser, paste and map the source columns to their respective target columns. I would connect a Base document to that database, let's say MySQL database, and register the database document. ![]() ![]() How exactly do you paste data from a spreadsheet to a "siebel database"? What is the actual type of database under your "siebel database"? Do you paste somewhere in the window of another application? Which column gets lost? Do you see the column when pasting to some other application, let's say a simple text editor? Always the first one, last one, a specific one? If you file a bug to the LO project, there is a good chance that the problem will be fixed soon. Also part of my work entails copying and pasting data from a spreadsheet to a siebel database and LO somehow loses one column of data while AOO has no problem with that. ![]() Danielc wrote:I have both on my computers but I'm using LO less as I find the new version seeming trying to do too much unlike the low key AOO. ![]()
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