On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 21:50:01 +0000, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, David
wrote:

According to the article .....

Here are the MS Office alternatives at a glance:

Google Docs
LibreOffice
Office Online
Apple iWork
WPS Office
Calligra Office
DropBox Paper

Details he https://fossbytes.com/best-alternati...rosoft-office/

Would you recommend one of the above for use with Windows 10 or would
you suggest Open Office? https://www.openoffice.org


Use Libre. It's a well-maintained, mature, .odx (OpenDocument) native
office suite. If you need MS interoperability, stick to writing Office
2003 formats from Libre to ensure full compatibility (.doc, .xls, etc).

Libre is superb at exporting to Office 2003 formats, and Microsoft
products still read those formats with a high degree of accuracy.

Avoid OOXML, the current MS file spec (.docx, etc). At its worst, I have
had Libre Calc generate an .xlsx file that literally would not open in
Excel and others that generated with bizarre side-effects.

In contrast, I've never had an .xls file go bad.

So I say go with Libre and use native .odx formats all you can. Use
Office 2003 formats if you're sending stuff to someone with MS Office. I
have found that MS Office has crap import filters for .odx files
generated by any program that adheres to the OpenDocument standard, but
imports the old Office 2003 formats well.

YMMV. Good luck.

(By the way, you used a non-ASCII long hyphen in the subject line and not
all news readers handle it. I had to change the header to post to Eternal
September.)

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