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Overview

Apache OpenOffice

4.4

(499)

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About Apache OpenOffice

Apache OpenOffice is an open-source suite of solutions designed to help government organizations, non-profits, educational facilities and businesses across multiple industries improve productivity using various tools to create spreadsheets, graphics, presentations, 3D illustrations, mathematical equations and more. Professionals can create document templates and use the AutoCorrect dictionary to detect typing mistakes in real-time.

The platform supports multiple languages and lets organizations generate tables with content, indexing terms, illustrations, bibliographical references and other details. Apache OpenOffice allows managers to format cells by adding templates, backgrounds, text or borders and share spreadsheets with team members to facilitate collaboration. Additionally, organizations can use wizards to create queries, forms and reports with table definitions to track customers, assets, sales orders and more.

Apache OpenOffice's 3D rendering capabilities enable professionals to create photorealistic images. The product is available for free and support is extended via documentation, forums and FAQs.

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Apache OpenOffice User Interface

Popular Apache OpenOffice Alternatives

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Apache OpenOffice

4.4

(499)

Ratings Breakdown

4.35Ease of use
4.74Value for money
3.90Customer support
4.19Functionality

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4.78Value for money
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4.51Functionality

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4.58Value for money
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Microsoft 365

4.6

(14013)

Ratings Breakdown

4.51Ease of use
4.34Value for money
4.26Customer support
4.61Functionality

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Apache OpenOffice Pros and Cons

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Community-Driven And Flexible

Being open source, Apache OpenOffice is free to use and regularly improved by a global community. Users value its unrestricted access, collaborative development, and the ability to customize or modify the software to fit their needs.

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Apache OpenOffice Features

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Multi-Language
Office Suite
Organizational Charting
Presentation Tools
Reporting & Statistics
Templates
Third-Party Integrations

Apache OpenOffice User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

52%

35%

11%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.2

Jose P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Using Open Office to meet the administrative needs of the company.

I've been using Open Office for a long time, and it covers most needs in an office environment, as well as being easy to export to other universal formats used by most businesses. In this sense, there is a high degree of compatibility and usability.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Open Office has proven to be a great alternative, in open source systems, which avoids generating higher licensing expenses, since it guarantees an unrestricted implementation that satisfies multiple functionalities, in addition to the fact that it is constantly being updated by members of the community, which that guarantees support for bugs or updates in operating systems, and because it is multiplatform it has been adopted by many people worldwide.

Cons:

The functionalities that open office has are excellent, and it is important to spend time specializing in this open-source platform that can be used in various operating systems. In addition to that, it has been extensively tested by the community, and the reported bugs are corrected in the following versions that are released on the market.

Reasons for choosing Apache OpenOffice

It is simple to implement, to install and does not require a learning curve for its use.

Juan M.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Goof free alternative to MS Office

I've used it when i used linux, and have tried in Mac when looking for the best alternative to MS Office. It is better than Apples native document apps.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The fact that is free and robust. It feels more study than LibreOffice.

Cons:

it still, after so many years, struggles with some formatting when working with MS Office documents.

Reasons for switching to Apache OpenOffice

Price. Apache OpenOffice is free and is available for many OS.

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Reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Great Word Alternative

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I love OpenOffice. What I like the most is that it's a free version of Microsoft Word, and at least to my knowledge, has all the same features.

Cons:

The only think I dislike is the same thing I dislike about all text editors, they're clunky when doing anything other than typing. Thankfully that's all I use them for so it's not a problem.

Benjamin R.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Open Office: an open source oasis in a desert of corporate cash grab products

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The vast array of capabilities while being free! I've used OpenOffice for years for multiple jobs for multiple companies. Open Office is extremely easy to use, and as I get older, easier to use because MicroSoft Word keeps changing and OpenOffice's UI remains as a "classic interface." Its easy to have multiple computers in the office use OO because of no licensing, and to be able to open and save in legacy formats to extremely useful. I worked at an office that used Apple Numbers and it was dreadful, so I convinced everyone to us OO, and everyone agreed it was the better move, and all of our files were compatible which made the switch much easier.

Cons:

Nothing. And I mean that, there are no downsides to OpenOffice. Maybe only that not enough people are aware of it, but without it being a profit motivated program, that makes sense.

Reasons for switching to Apache OpenOffice

Microsoft is expensive and when setting up multiple computers at an office for people to use, Open Office being completely free is the obvious choice.

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Reviewer

Building Materials

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Excellent MS Office Alternative - Minus Some Bells and Whistles

OpenOffice is hands down my favorite office application suite. Yes, it isn't the prettiest or the most feature-rich, but it offers everything probably 95% of today's workforce would need, minus real-time editing collaboration.

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

OpenOffice is excellent for a free and open-source office application suite. It offers all the essential core functionality of MS Office for the low low price of absolutely free! When I was a student and began my career I was using OpenOffice exclusively. If offers excellent capabilities right out of the box and is available even on Linux (my preferred operating system).

Cons:

The lack of an online collaboration feature really is the only reason I had to switch away from this with my company. It's a much-needed feature, especially at this time, with everyone working remotely.

Reasons for switching to Apache OpenOffice

At the time of switching, OpenOffice felt more intuitive with its controls. and more familiar to the older versions of MS office that I was used to.

Thomas T.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

A great alternative to Microsoft

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to switch from Microsoft Word and not get lost. Functionality is basically the same.

Cons:

Moving documents from Word to OpenOffice always ruins the formatting. Essentially, you have to start in OpenOffice and finish here unless you have extra time to reformat everything.

Reasons for switching to Apache OpenOffice

Previous publisher used this and needed all files on this platform.

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Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Open Source Application for your day to day work

Overall experience is very good while using this application. Needs some more features like high cost applications.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Open source is the one of the great benefit they are offering. Good option among other same category apps. Easy setup. Cost saving application

Cons:

More templates to be added for each file type. It feels like something is missing as compared to other high cost applications. Rest all good for this application.

Reasons for choosing Apache OpenOffice

Open Source, Cost Effective, Easy to use. Basic functionality is available without any cost

Ed P.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Does everything and for free

I depend on it daily for writing and spreadsheets and am not disappointed! Cannot beat the free price.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It does everything -- i mainly use word processing and spreadsheets -- without getting wrapped up in Microsoft's intrusive and expensive software. I can open and save as Word, can open CVS, etc. Easy and effective

Cons:

What's not to like, except they leave phone apps to private developers and i do wish i could search and replace tabs and other formatting symbols, but nobody's asked this since Microsoft Works in the 1990s!

Reasons for choosing Apache OpenOffice

Less intrusive, free, and capable of opening and saving to Microsoft formats if needed.

Goran S.

Verified reviewer

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

A great alternative

I switched from MS Office to OpenOffice and I must admit, I feel no difference. It is a good thing, though, as Microsoft Office is rather expensive, while OpenOffice is completely free! I would expect a significant quality drop between the two, but I have not found one. I can only recommend everyone to switch over as it has saved me hundreds of dollars so far.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It is good at doing what it advertises. It is a full on suite of programs on par with the mainstream alternatives. I was especially surprised with how easy it was to switch from Microsoft products to OpenOffice and how little difficulty there was.

Cons:

Sometimes it lags a bit. It feels like it has some optimization issues. Larger actions make my computer lag more than it ever happened with MS Office suite. I also noticed some issues with layouts and formatting - it just won't behave as I would expect it to.

Reasons for switching to Apache OpenOffice

I was trying out new alternatives to Microsoft Office and free options I was using this far.

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Reviewer

Retail

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

A very Good Backup Utility to have

I had Microsoft Office for many years, Due to business slowing down, we had to rely on another software, Apache OpenOffice was just as good a software as I had used.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like this software, any documents made from another compatible software, will be able to export it to this cost efficient just as well.

Cons:

lack of templates for useful documents to use for implementing a plan. I didn't see much of word art offers

Reasons for switching to Apache OpenOffice

Budget cuts, fixed income. I had to start tightening up belt and use other software that has same compatible formats

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