

You can turn this feature off, and the next time you create a presentation, you will see a blank presentation. When you create a new presentation in LibreOffice, a select a template dialog appears by default.

These are items LibreOffice places in the Sheet menu.īoth have almost 400 functions that can be accessed through the Formula bar. NeoOffice’s has these items too, but it also has items to insert sheets and functions. LibreOffice Calc’s Insert menu mainly has items to insert images and artwork. NeoOffice places the insert cells function, as well as items for inserting rows and columns, in the Insert menu. By default, NeoOffice includes Insert Rows and Insert Columns icons in the Standard toolbar. This allows you to add cells, rows and columns, as well as delete them. NeoOffice does not include the Sheet menu. Like the word processor, LibreOffice Calc has an additional menu. NeoOffice has many more fonts installed by default. LibreOffice has more than 230 fonts available for the Mac version. Both word processors have toolbars that you can add and remove items from. NeoOffice does not have a track changes icon in its Standard toolbar by default. The formatting and standard toolbars have many of the same items. The menu is just an additional way LibreOffice users can access and edit styles. Other items in the Styles menu can be accessed through the sidebar as well. This dialog can also be opened by clicking the Styles and Formatting icon in the sidebar of both applications. It also contains the link to open the Styles and Formatting dialog. The menu contains many of the items that you would find in the Paragraph Styles (or Apply Styles) drop-down menu that can be found in the Formatting toolbars of both word processors. In LibreOffice, this is between the Table and Format menus. One of the key differences is that NeoOffice is missing the Styles menu. The word processors for the two suites are very similar.

This article will compare the two office suites.īoth suites come with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and formula applications.

These include being able to sync with iCloud and having independent floating windows that are common to a lot of Mac applications. It has some different features than it’s other open-source counterparts. The suite is being sold through the Mac App Store for $29.99. A company called NeoOffice responded by forking the code into their own distribution for the Mac.įor the past 5 or 6 years LibreOffice and OpenOffice have run natively on Mac, but NeoOffice is still being developed. When OpenOffice was first released it was available for Linux distros and Windows natively, but it ran on Mac under Unix.
