Comparison of office suites
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:
General information
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
OS support
The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS combination, there are five possibilities:
- No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
- Partial indicates that while the office suite works, it lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs; it is still being developed however.
- Beta indicates that while a version of the office suite is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
- Yes indicates that the office suite has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
- Dropped indicates that while the office suite works, new versions are no longer being released for the indicated OS; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Supported file formats
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Name | Legacy Microsoft Office
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OpenDocument
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Strict Office Open XML
|
Microsoft XML
|
Portable Document Format
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Ability Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Export |
Apache OpenOffice | Yes | Native format | No | Import | Yes with plugin |
Calligra Suite | Import | Native format | No | Import | Export[lower-alpha 30] |
Collabora Online | Yes | Native format | Yes[lower-alpha 31] | Yes | Yes |
Feng Office Community Edition | No | No | No | No | No |
GNU TeXmacs | No | No | No | No | Export |
Google Workspace | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Hancom Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
iWork | Yes | No | No | Import | Export |
LibreOffice | Yes | Native format | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft 365 | Partial[lower-alpha 32] | Partial[lower-alpha 33] | Partial[lower-alpha 34][31] | Native format[32] | Yes |
NeoOffice | Yes | Native format | No | Yes | Import with plugin |
OfficeSuite | Yes | Partial[lower-alpha 35] | No | Yes | Yes |
OnlyOffice | Yes | Yes | No | Native format | Yes |
Polaris Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Viewing |
SoftMaker Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | search | search | No | search | Export and search |
WordPerfect Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Some versions |
WPS Office | Yes | Yes with add-in | No | Yes | Export in all versions. Import with subscription only. |
Zimbra | Yes | Native format | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Zoho Office Suite | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Name | Legacy Microsoft Office
|
OpenDocument
|
Strict Office Open XML
|
Microsoft XML
|
Portable Document Format
|
Main components
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Online capabilities
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Notes
- The app uses LibreOffice kit technology and is based on Collabora Online for which development started in 2013.
- Version 21.11. Using LibreOffice kit technology, development started in 2013.
- Version 1.0. Using LibreOffice kit technology, development started in 2013.
- Version 4.4.
- CODE: Collabora Online Development Edition
- Offline editing when used with Chrome or Edge web browser.
- 60.00 per account per year. 30 day-trial at no cost. No cost for education and non-profit.
- Offline editing when used with Chrome web browser.
- $10/yr. $29.99 Mac App Store. Old versions at no cost.ׁׂׂ
- €29.99/year for all platforms. No cost with ads and limited support.
- 75-7,200 per year for commercial use. No cost for non-commercial use.
- 99.95 for Office Professional. FreeOffice at no cost.
- Tiki Software Community Association.
- $119.99 perpetual license. $29.99 annual subscription. No cost with ads.
- free community edition, other paid for versions with increasing features.ׁׂׂ
- Up to 96 per user per year.
- Online
- Offline and Online
- Online (iCloud)
- Dropped 2021
- Wine
- Not all features available, e.g. Project, Visio, Access.
- Dropped 2006.
- Version 2000.
- Microsoft's binary file formats for Office 97-2003
- An open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics
- A file format created by Microsoft for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics
- Microsoft's default file formats for Office 2007 and above
- A partially open file format to present documents, including text formatting and images.
It includes proprietary technologies defined only by Adobe that are not standardized and whose specifications are published only on Adobe's website, many of these are not supported by popular third-party implementations of PDF. - Not included in this office suite, but provided in the Desktop Environment.
- Supported in Desktop apps (Windows, Mac and Linux), Import only for Android, iOS, ChromeOS and Online.
- Not supported in Online version.
- Not supported in macOS.
- Not supported in Excel for macOS or iPad.
- OpenDocument text documents only.
- Import/Export with ProjectLibre and others.[33]
- Available in integrations, such as Nextcloud, ownCloud, others.
- High quality maths typesetting.
- Apple Photos is included in the operating system
- LibreOffice Writer and Draw contain desktop publishing features, but feature sets are not equal for both components.[35] Although Draw can import Microsoft Publisher files, it has problems of creating complex editorial projects.[36] For example, alternate glyphs in fonts cannot be used automatically.[37] Official tech support recommended Scribus for desktop publishing tasks.[38]
- Separate product purchase required.
- Discontinued as of 2011. Word and PowerPoint have some functionality.[39]
- Professional and Professional Plus.
- Standard, Professional and Professional Plus.
- Discontinued as of 1999.
- In Professional version only.
- Currently unavailable for Linux.
- When in WYSIWYG HTML editing mode.
- Can interface with email clients and Mail Merge Wizard can send email directly from LibreOffice.[40]
- LibreOffice Online under development.[41]
- Not included in Microsoft Office 2013 or 2016 Home & Student.[42][43]
- Versions after Office 2000 Premium and Developer contain Microsoft FrontPage, the full-blown web page editor.
- Microsoft Word can read and write HTML starting with a special upgrade for Word 6.0.
- Available for separate subscription.[44]
References
- Carl Marcum (27 February 2023). "Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 released". Retrieved 28 February 2023.
- "KDE released Calligra Office v3.2.1".
- "Collabora Office for Android and iOS 23.05 – Release Notes".
- "Collabora Office for Android and iOS 23.05 – Release Notes (English)".
- "Collabora Online 23.05 Release Notes".
- "Collabora Office 23.05 Release Notes".
- "CODE 23.05 Release Notes".
- "Release 3.10.6.9". 18 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- Joris van der Hoeven (10 December 2021). "TeXmacs 2.1.1". Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- "IBM Lotus Symphony - Buzz: Symphony 3.0.1 FIXPACK 2 is Now AVAILABLE". 29 November 2012. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013.
- "IBM Lotus Symphony - Release Notes". Archived from the original on 26 April 2011.
- "Apple Unveils iWork '05". Apple Inc. 2005-01-11. Archived from the original on 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- "Apple Pencil hover now available with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps". 30 March 2023.
- Italo Vignoli (26 September 2023). "Important release of LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community with key security fix". Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- "NeoOffice".
- "OfficeSuite: Word, Sheets, PDF".
- "App Store Preview".
- "Desktop Editors changelog". Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- "Polaris Office: Edit&View, PDF".
- "Polaris Office".
- "App Store Preview".
- "Mac App Store Preview".
- "Polaris Office 9.113.79 Download". Archived from the original on 25 January 2022.
- "SoftMaker's product history". Archived from the original on 2018-05-17.
- "Download SoftMaker Office".
- How to use SoftMaker Office on a Chromebook
- SoftMaker Office for iOS has been released
- "tags/25.3 · Tags · Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware / Tiki · GitLab".
- "Barry MacDonnell's Toolbox for WordPerfect for Windows - What's new and different in recent WordPerfect versions". Archived from the original on 23 January 2022.
- "File format reference for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - Deploy Office".
- "Strict Open XML files do not open or save in Excel for iPad or Excel for Mac - Microsoft Support".
- File format reference for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- "Does ProjectLibre offer export and import features ?". ProjectLibre. January 1, 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
You can cut/paste spreadsheet data into the spreadsheets of ProjectLibre. You can import the .csv into OpenOffice or LibreOffice spreadsheets. You can also rearrange the spreadsheet in ProjectLibre to whatever columns match up and then just paste the data into ProjectLibre. We can do a mapping/import in the future to allow import directly of .csv. There is just a lot of things on the list.
- "LibreOffice Version 4.3 Draw Guide" (PDF). LibreOffice Documentation Team. pp. 115–137. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
- Feature Comparison: LibreOffice - Microsoft Office
- Desktop Publishing Software What is DTP software and which is the best?
- Designing with LibreOffice, Chapter 7, The limits to LibreOffice text design, page 191
- Does libreoffice have an equivalent to publisher please? ?
- "What replaces office picture manager in Office 2013". Microsoft. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
- "LibreOffice Version 4.2 Getting Started Guide" (PDF). LibreOffice Documentation Team. June 18, 2014. pp. 304–307. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
LibreOffice provides several ways to send documents quickly and easily as e-mail attachments in one of three formats: OpenDocument (LibreOffice's default format), Microsoft formats, or PDF.
- Segar Yegulalp (March 25, 2015). "LibreOffice's next big version is in the cloud". InfoWorld, Inc. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
- "Choose your Office". Microsoft. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- "Office". Microsoft. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- "SharePoint Online". Microsoft. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- "WordPerfect Office X7 Handbook" (PDF). Corel Corporation. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 11, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015.