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Comparison of office suites
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:
General information
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Platforms listed are for when a local application is available that does not require network connectivity to function.
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 the office suite lacks important functionality and it is still being developed, or it is online only so requires network connectivity to function.
- 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.
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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.
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Notes
- Online only (iCloud) requiring Internet connectivity to function
- Online only (Microsoft 365) requiring Internet connectivity to function
- 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. - Import/Export with ProjectLibre and others.[35]
- LibreOffice Writer and Draw contain desktop publishing features, but feature sets are not equal for both components.[37] Although Draw can import Microsoft Publisher files, it has problems of creating complex editorial projects.[38] For example, alternate glyphs in fonts cannot be used automatically.[39] Official tech support recommended Scribus for desktop publishing tasks.[40]
- A lightweight, web-based version of Visio is available to Microsoft 365 business subscribers. Full Visio is available to organizations as a separate purchase from Office.[41]
- Vector graphics can be made in Microsoft PowerPoint.
- An equation editor is available in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft OneNote.
- Can interface with email clients and Mail Merge Wizard can send email directly from LibreOffice.[42]
- LibreOffice Online under development.[43]
- Versions after Office 2000 Premium and Developer contain Microsoft FrontPage, the full-blown web page editor.
- Available for separate subscription.[46]
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