LibreOffice is a competent replacement for Microsoft Office, AppleWorks, and other office suites. If you use Windows or Linux, LibreOffice gives you the same capabilities and open document formats, making it easy to work with the same file on any of the major platforms. (I don’t use Windows, but I have read user reports that AppleWorks for Windows is incompatible with Window 8.) Broad Hardware Support AppleWorks development ended in 2007, and the software only runs in XP compatibility mode on Windows 7 and later – if it runs on Windows 8 at all. LibreOffice can open Microsoft Office files as well as AppleWorks word processing documents, and after I export my spreadsheets into Excel format, LibreOffice can open them as well.īy the way, despite its name, AppleWorks was also available for Microsoft Windows.
Likewise, I can’t run AppleWorks in Mavericks, so if I want to be able to work with my spreadsheets, I have to export them from AppleWorks (still running on my 2007 Mac mini with Snow Leopard). Problem is, I’m using Mavericks on my MacBook, so Office 2004 is not an option – nor do I want to spend the money to buy a newer version. I rarely use Microsoft Office, although I do have Office 2004 on my OS X 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, and 10.6 Snow Leopard Macs. Unfortunately, AppleWorks is incompatible with OS X 10.7 Lion and later, so I’ve had to find an alternative since installing OS X 10.9 Mavericks on my Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook. I’m using it to replace AppleWorks, which I’ve been using since ClarisWorks 1.0 shipped back in the System 7.0 era. See: this page for non windows releases.LibreOffice is a free alternative to the not-inexpensive Microsoft Office suite.
And, because the file format for is in XML, interoperability is easy, making future development and adoption more certain. Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL Open Source licenses, allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source. Additional ports, such as for FreeBSD, IRIX, and Mac OS X, are in various stages of completion. runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Localizations of are available in 27 languages with more being constantly added by the community. Sophisticated and flexible, also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including Microsoft's. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. is an Open Source, community-developed, multiplatform office-productivity suite.
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