If you open and try to save a Microsoft document from someone who is using a different version, you will see a message letting you know that some of the features are not supported by earlier versions. With Microsoft Office, newer versions of their products are often not compatible with older versions of their own products. In this case, it might be more convenient to use the same product suite. This could present a problem if you share files with others often. One of the reasons is that Microsoft uses its own fonts.Īnother reason is that data is rendered and interpreted on-screen differently in both product suites. However, Microsoft Office documents won’t always look exactly the same in LibreOffice.
It is also compatible with other non-Microsoft product formats. LibreOffice is compatible with most of the common file formats from Microsoft Office including XLSX, DOCX, and PPTX.
