Advantages of Open Document Format
- International Standard
- Not tied to proprietary vendor format
- Used natively by both LibreOffice and OpenOffice
- Adopted by governments, businesses, and agencies because it’s an open standard
- LibreOffice and OpenOffice are developed by Open Source Community
- Free
Which to Use: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
- Both use Open Document Format international standard
- Both are Open Source and free
- Both run on Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Both have tutorials on YouTube, plenty of online educational info
- Similar user interfaces
- OpenOffice may be a bit faster
- LibreOffice may be a bit more polished
- LibreOffice has support for more output formats (e.g. MSWord .docx)
- Both work fine with Ancestral Author
