LibreOffice

LibreOffice is an Open Source, versatile and rich featured document management and production suite. It’s free and tough competitor to Microsoft Office pack. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. It is equipped with six applications that are enough for production and processing of almost any type of document and presentation.

Writer

Writer is a word processing application that can be used for writing any type of document from a simple letter to a complete book containing thousands of pages, table of contents, pictures, graphs, charts a lot more. A full range of formatting tools enable you to format document in any form you wish. Text can be aligned and styled seamlessly.

Calc

Calc is spreadsheet management application. It has rich set of tool you may need for creating, editing, manipulating and managing spreadsheets and records in a convenient way. Cells, columns, rows etc. are basic structure of spreadsheets. You can automate calculation process by using formulas. Pre-defined formulas can be utilized and you can define new formulas too. Text can be fully formatted. Images, charts and objects can be inserted to make spreadsheet even meaningful.

Impress

Produce multimedia presentations with Impress. It’s also loaded and tons of tools that will help you create the presentation in easiest and fastest way. Choose various formatting and pre-designed styles for presentation. Designing tables and layouts with ready-made styles saves your precious time and adds professional look to your presentation.

Draw

A picture is said to be worth than hundred and thousand words. Draw lets you try this out. Build drawings and diagrams with charts, tables, lines, shapes and fully formatted text. Beautify your drawings with different effects such as shadow, rotate, flip, 3D rotation, distort, changing transparency and gradient for objects. Objects can also be aligned and arranged flawlessly.

Base

Base is a database management application. Create and manage complex database in an easy way. Use tables, queries, forms and reports with built-in tools.

Math

Handle complex math and formulas in Math, an easy equation editor. Math lets you deal with mathematical, scientific, electrical and chemical equations in easy way with built-in set of tools. Select elements that you want to insert such as uniary/binary/operators, relations, set operations, functions, operators, attributes, brackets and formulas. These elements can’t be inserted from keyboard and these are not part of standard text.

Summary

LibreOffice is a close, rich-featured and free alternative to Microsoft Office suite. It contains almost all tools plus some extra utilities that will make your documentation experience even better. Enhance your productivity with simple to use guide available on its official website. Try it out, you have nothing to lose to try it.