Openoffice vs libreoffice

[98elise]

We recently bought a couple of new laptops, and rather than pay MS a fortune I thought I'd try Libre office. All seemed well, but we've noticed you save a "word" document with pictures, they are missing next rime you open the document. It seems to be a common problem.

Is openoffice any better, or does it suffer similar quirks? Up until this issue I thought libreoffice was great, and in some ways better than MS office.

I want to settle on one, and pay a suitable donation for the product, but it needs to be reliable at the basics.

[98elise]

Sounds like I should stick with Libreoffice then.

[98elise]

blueg33 said:

I find Libre Office ok for home stuff, but really struggle with docx that need to be read by work colleagues using MS as it seems to mess about with formatting. Docx format is not particularly well supported IMO.

I also use Excel a lot with large and complex sheets, its too time consuming to make these work in Libreoffice calc

If you have kids MS office is very cheap. I think I bought 3 licences from a student software company for £30

I do have kids, do you have a link for that deal. When I looked it seemed to be about £100 per PC, and I needed to buy MS Publisher separately.