At first there was only the Open Office
A brief history to the emergence of two almost identical Office packages, you can read here.
- Open Office is the Open Source version of Star Office is. The company Sun bought it and the developer community provided.
- Sun was bought by Oracle, which were more commercial in nature and is in dispute with the developers themselves. These moved off and founded their own Foundation.
- They continued the project under Libre Office, since the name rights were still at Oracle.
- Oracle was not happy with OpenOffice, and gave the project including the name of the Apache Software Foundation. The re-named the project back in Apache Open Office.
Start Screen Open Office
The Open Office and Libre Office can
In Essence, the two Office packages are from the same blocks. These are:
- WRITER is the word processing program
- CALC, the spreadsheet
- IMPRESS-for Multimedia presentations
- DRAW, a 3D-drawing program
- BASE, the database module
Home Screen, Libre Office
Differences between the Office packages
Are there any differences? The separation is, after all, still too long, which is why it is to the vast majority of still identical programs. But nevertheless, there are already differences. Libre Office has already received significantly more of the Updates contain mostly bug fixes but also new features. So now in LibreOffice (and only in LibreOffice):
- Table cells are marked in Calc, color
- The LibreOffice Writer has a word count in the status
- When exporting to PDF, the generated PDF's can be provided with a watermark
- Numerous Import and Export formats improved
Libre Office is the future
In the case of the as-yet marginal Differences, it is up to you which Office package you are using. This fall, if at all, only those who are in need of one of the new special features. Libre Office development is now technically in front of Open Office and is sure to remain so.
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