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5 reasons why FreeOffice is a great Microsoft Office alternative

2025-02-072025-02-07 Danie

Screenshot of a FreeOffice TextMaker document with file save dialogue, showing various file formats and a text excerpt about a storyline.

I use FreeOffice myself, mostly because it starts up super quickly (ready in under 5 secs) and has an interface that resonates with me. Yes, LibreOffice is just as powerful and is much better known, […]

6 reasons why OnlyOffice is a great Microsoft Office alternative

2024-12-132024-12-14 Danie

The image shows a laptop displaying a document on ONLYOFFICE, a web-based office suite. The laptop is positioned on a surface with a vibrant, cartoonish background partially visible. The foreground is dominated by the laptop screen showcasing the ONLYOFFICE interface, featuring a sample document with charts and text. The background reveals a portion of a colorful wall featuring cartoon-like graphics, suggesting a casual or home office setting. There are additional details that might only be noticeable upon closer inspection, such as the small icon displayed on the taskbar, possibly indicating network connectivity status or other software applications running in the background. The document itself shows a sample chart, with data points that might indicate sales figures over a given period. The level of detail and the precision applied to the graph suggest the user values precise visual communication.

OnlyOffice is a suite that is available as a paid enterprise version for broad deployments, but also works completely for free on desktop and mobile operating systems. It is fully cross-platform, including Linux. While it’s […]

Looking for a Google Workspace alternative? OnlyOffice DocSpace is ready for the job

2024-08-162024-08-16 Danie

Cartoon style picture with a person sitting at a desk with a screen in front of them. At the far left and right sides are some green pot plants in white pots. Behind the person is a large what looks like rectangular banner, but it represents an open spreadsheet app showing some blurred columns and rows with numbers.

Although this linked article mostly focusses on the hosted cloud side (I suppose that is the equivalent of Google Docs) there is actually a very good open source desktop app available called ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors […]

Cross-Platform ONLYOFFICE 8.1 office suite has an excellent PDF editor and forms creator

2024-07-082024-07-08 Danie

Blue background with a bold title in white font stating ONLYOFFICE 8.1 Unveiled with Supercharged PDF Editor and More. To the right can be seen then thumbnails in grey of an office suite showing a presentation being edited, and an open document being edited.

With this update, the PDF editor also supports page deletion, rotation (left or right), and insertion (blank page before or after), all easily accessible from the “Home” tab (remember to enable “Edit PDF”). Moreover, you […]

ONLYOFFICE DocSpace: The Best Open-Source Collaborative Platform for Linux

2023-08-112023-08-11 Danie

The ONLYOFFICE FocSpace screen showing actions on the left side column such as My documents, Rooms, Archive, Accounts, etc, and in centre column 5 existing documents are listed which can be clicked to open, and on teh right side column it shows the details of one selected documents such as version number, review, etc.

Yes, there are a few good open-source office suites, but there are fewer that are server based, and actually collaboration based, like ONLYOFFICE DocSpace is (they also have a server version that installs from a […]

ONLYOFFICE 7.1 is Out With New PDF Viewer, Slideshow Animations + More, as an open source alternative to MS Office and LibreOffice for Windows, macOS and Linux

2022-05-162022-05-16 Danie

ONLYOFFICE offers a high-performance, well-featured, and fully-functional alternative to LibreOffice (which, though awesome, is a bit ‘old-school’ for some folks’ UI tastes). It’s also the next-best thing to that stalwart of the productivity software scene: […]

Free and Open Source OnlyOffice 7.0 Released with Form Filling, Windowed Mode + More… LibreOffice is not the only alternative out there

2022-01-192022-01-19 Danie

OnlyOffice 7.0 is now available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. Now has the ability to create and edit forms (often distributed in the .docxf format). Filled-in forms can be saved as a PDF […]

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