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Office for ubuntu compatible with microsoft office. Office suite for Ubuntu, Linux mint, etc. Using PlayOnLinux to install Microsoft Office

Still, productivity when working on an operating system is, without a doubt, one of the key points - this is what can either support the OS or destroy it.

Design is no less important. If the adaptation for the project is carried out correctly, you will quickly catch up.

Linux, today - and this is more than obvious - is the main competitor of Windows. They are both in core consumer and commercial markets.

If you know that the ecosystem of any platform (that is, the applications available on it) determines its success, then you also know that Firefox OS and Sailfish ( Android alternatives and iOS for mobile devices) are not in the position we would like. All due to the lack of a wide range of applications that can attract the user.

In the past, productivity on Linux was lacking, and adaptations were not easy or were simply impossible in those early days. Fast forward two decades and we see an abundance of applications for every discerning taste, as well as an incredibly convenient system for beginners. This is what the Linux world has become.

When talking about productivity, the first thing that comes to mind is the office suite. ABOUT Microsoft Office, to be precise, or its full-fledged competitor LibreOffice.

Although both of them are extremely popular, this does not mean that they are the best of their kind. In addition, Microsoft Office is not available on Linux.

We have compiled an extensive list of 16 office suites available on Linux, most of which are cross-platform, which essentially makes them alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite, which in turn is available on competing desktops (Windows and OSX) and even mobile platforms.

1.LibreOffice

This office suite is a fork of the once widely known Openoffice. It offers all formats supported by MS Office including doc, docs, xlsx, etc. – all this is on par with other standards.

LibreOffice is cross-platform and can offer text editor (Writer), spreadsheets(Calc), presentations (Impress) and much more.

In addition to the main properties, on the main LibreOffice website you can find a bunch of icons, as well as various plugins that expand its functionality.

2.Apache OpenOffice

OpenOffice has a lot in common with LibreOffice due to the fact that they share the same code base. OpenOffice development has somehow lagged behind LibreOffice. To clarify, this happened due to the slow development cycle, which at one time led to the LibreOffice breakthrough. Either way, OpenOffice remains a valid alternative with many of the features available in LibreOffice and years of development behind it.

OpenOffice also offers cross-platform functionality - it is available on Windows, OSX and Linux.

3.Calligra Suite

Calligra is one of the oldest office suites, which has been in active development for 15 years. Previously it was known as KOffice.

It is a Qt-based office solution built around the KDE desktop, but is still available for other platforms.

Calligra includes many programs that can help you be productive, including such well-known software as the image editor Krita.

  • Calligra Words- text editor
  • Calligra Sheets– spreadsheets
  • Calligra Stage– presentations
  • Calligra Author– used for electronic publications
  • Calligra Plan– project plans
  • Krita– image editor
  • Calligra Flow (formerly Kivio)– graphical representations
  • Karbon (formerly Karbon14)- Vector graphics
  • Braindump– notes, connection diagram
  • Kexi

4.WPS Office

WPS (or Writer Presentation and Spreadsheets) has quickly become the most used office suite, thanks to its modern look and support on major desktop platforms.

WPS used to be called Kingsoft Office, and it appeared in 2013. The program has proprietary code and boasts free and premium versions. The premium version offers 230 fonts, document interoperability, advanced spreadsheets, document encryption, and the like.

One way or another, both mobile and desktop versions can equally offer quite a lot. For example, it contains online templates and a modern interface, which the packages presented earlier are not able to flaunt.

Today, WPS is the base for many Linux-based distributions. For example, on Deepin OS.

The Kingsoft made sure to support all MS Office formats, as well as their own proprietary format known as .wps.

5.GNOME Office

Another open source office suite, built under a specific shell, just like Calligra. If you haven't already guessed, GNOME Office is built for GNOME DE using GTK technologies.

It supports the same number of formats as the previously mentioned packages, and contains elements (some of which you already know) used in various distributions around the world.

One way or another, GNOME Office is available only on the Linux platform and includes the following software:

  • AbiWord–text editor
  • Gnumeric– creating spreadsheets
  • Ease– presentations
  • Inkscape- drawing
  • Glom– database management system
  • GnuCash- financial management
  • Evolution– mail management and RSS viewing
  • Evince– PDF viewer
  • gLabels– creation of labels
  • Dia– diagrams

6.Softmaker Office

Softmaker is a closed source software compatible with Microsoft Office. It also offers two options: free and premium.

The first one is called Softmaker FreeOffice, and the last one is called Softmaker - it contains all the features and full functionality.

Like LibreOffice and WPS, Softmaker is available on a variety of platforms. It includes the following applications:

  • Textmaker
  • PlanMaker– spreadsheets
  • SoftMaker Presentations– presentations
  • BasicMaker– VB programming tool (Windows only)
  • eM Client – mail client(professional only)

7.Oxygen Office

It is essentially a continuation of “OpenOffice.org Premium” in the once free package, the basis of which was provided by Apache Office and LibreOffice, where there are noticeable differences in maneuverability GUI and its improved codebase.
It supports all the usual things: text editing, spreadsheets, and a couple of fancy add-ons like Avast antivirus software Home Edition(for those running on Windows), chart designer and calculator.

8.Yozo Office

This is another lesser-known office suite that offers a number of features that include support for most Microsoft Office formats. Its components include a word processing engine, spreadsheets, PDF viewing, and presentations.

Although Yozo is proprietary, it is free and cross-platform. But, if you want even more features, you will need to purchase a special premium package at a steep price. Yozo also has its own .eio format.

9.Google Docs

Google Docs, which is an online package, approaches document creation differently. It's cross-platform, free, and decently powerful.

The package is used by millions of users around the world and has a native application for the two most used mobile operating systems (Android and iOS). It is written in JavaScript and boasts online interaction, offline saving, etc.

It is the primary choice for hundreds of schools and businesses around the world.

Google Docs includes:

  • text editor
  • Sheets– spreadsheets
  • Drawing– diagrams and graphical representations
  • Forms- polls
  • Slides- presentation

10.Zoho Docs

Zoho Docs is another web-based package similar in functionality to Google Docs, but aimed at the commercial market (although it does have a free version), since online interaction and offline saving are only available with a premium subscription.

Zoho Docs can be very expensive, but it has the benefit of native Android and iOS apps with synchronized desktop clients for OSX, Linux, and Windows.

11.Joeffice

Joeffice is another alternative with widespread capabilities such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management. The package is written in Java.

Joeffice is not bad as it has a modern appearance, it is open source and can be launched online.

12.Siag Office

Siag is another unusual package that supports all common Microsoft Office formats and yet has few components:

  • Spreadsheet Siag– spreadsheets
  • Pathetic writer– text processing
  • Egon– animation program
  • XedPlus- text editor
  • Xfiler– file management
  • Gvu– preview tool

Siag is available on OSX, OpenBSD and Linux. The only drawback of the program that is obvious to me is the out-of-date interface, which may be unacceptable for some.

13.EuroOffice

EuroOffice is another application with open source, which aims to expand the capabilities of office suites by crossing OpenOffice and LibreOffice. This is how it tries to achieve greater interoperability and extensibility.

There are free and professional versions that include most, if not all, of the features of the office suites on which they are based. Moreover, there are special features of the professional version (which is closed) such as additional spell checkers and tools.

14.ThinkFree Office

ThinkFree is another proprietary office suite that wants to look, work, and perform like Microsoft Office. It is written in Java and Ajax and also runs on many platforms and offers applications:

  • Write- text editor
  • Caic– spreadsheets
  • Show- presentations
  • Note– blog editor
  • WYSIWYG– HTML editor

This is a premium office suite and does not have free versions, but it does have a thirty-day trial version. At the end of the thirty-day period, you will have to fork out a little if you want to enjoy working in ThinkFree Office again.

15.Hancom Office

Hamcom is a closed-source office suite. It is popular in Asia (especially South Korea) and is also cross-platform. The package offers support for most commonly used Microsoft Office formats, and is also the application of choice for most Koreans.

It was installed in the past on a number Samsung devices from Android. Hancom Office is an option with an intuitive interface and good localization.

16.Office 365

If you haven't guessed by now, it's Microsoft's own answer to the "office suite in the cloud." The service is essentially a bare-bones version of the full MS Office suite, available locally, as it does not have many advanced features.

Therefore, you will be limited to the most basic functionality, which will allow you to enjoy a small part of the complete package. One way or another, you can enjoy the seamless integration with OneDrive and other features such as online interaction.


The list has come to an end... Missed something? Let me know in the comments!

Earlier I already described the situation with . In short, if you desperately need Word, then the only adequate solution is a virtual machine. But is it necessary? After all, Linux has several native office suites.

Linux? No, have not heard…

In this article we’ll talk about this: are the office suites available on Linux compatible with MS Office, and if so, to what extent? I’ll make a reservation right away - I’m interested first and only working with texts, so everything below will mainly concern word processors- Word and its Linux analogues.

I would be happy to write something about presentations and table processors, but I'm not good at them. On the other hand, my work is closely related to texts, and almost every day a dozen text files pass through me, often containing, in addition to text, drawings, both made directly in Word and inserted from outside, tables, formulas, and often complex formatting. In general, the conditions for testing are very good.

When I moved to Linux, it became obvious that the most important aspect of local office suites for me was the ability to open anything created in Word document and how its appearance will correspond to how this document looks in Word. Having discussed this topic on forums and in social networks, I came to the conclusion that this is precisely the point that worries many.

This is exactly what I will talk about below, of course, telling a little about each office package as a whole.

Let me start with the fact that initially I planned to create a kind of “synthetic test” - a page in Word, with different formatting elements, pictures, formulas, etc. However, it immediately became clear that the idea was not the best, since it poorly reflected the real situation of things. Therefore, I chose a different tactic - for two weeks I watched how this or that program opens created in Word text files, and I already mentioned above that I view an average of ten of them a day. Two weeks have passed, and now I have something to tell you.

Our test subjects are four office suites - two in currently are well known - Libre Office and WPS Office. And two more are less often mentioned Softmaker Office and Calligra Suite.

Libre Office

I’ll say right away that if you need to open a document created in Word, and there is a need for it to look exactly as intended by the author, this is not about Libre Office. The main problems that caught my eye include the fact that it does not “pick up” some of the text formatting, and also has problems with drawings and diagrams made directly in Word. Some of them are distorted beyond recognition. Also, for some reason, Libre Office Writer did not correctly “pick up” the page margin settings in all cases, as a result of which the text looked anything but like in Word. On the other side, if you basically need to open a document, then Libre Office is “ahead of the rest.” While in other products some elements are simply not displayed, Libra will try to show everything, albeit a little askew. In other words, the package has its own interface, and does not copy anything. It vaguely resembles older versions of MS Office, but only remotely. Working with Libre Office is convenient and pleasant. Mostly on Linux I use this office suite and these lines are typed in Libre Office Writer.

I also cannot help but note that it is now preparing for release a new version Libre Office, which has many changes, including those aimed at increasing compatibility with MS Office formats. So the situation described above may soon change. Also, as far as I know, work is underway on a “ribbon” interface in the style of Microsoft products. I don’t know how, but I’ve already gotten used to this interface, and I think that it is very convenient, especially in the context of a text editor. So we wait.

WPS Office

On forums, WPS Office is often referred to as “fully compatible with MS Office,” so I installed it with particular interest. Indeed, there is some measure of compatibility. Let's not forget that we are currently only working with the alpha version, so everything is still to come, as they say.

Meanwhile, we can already safely say that most documents in WPS Writer look the same as in Word, and this is more of an achievement! For myself, I noted problems with many formulas that WPS, unlike Libre, does not show at all. He doesn't want to show some raster images, pasted into text files. Moreover, I was unable to identify any pattern. Some show up, some don't. The problem doesn't happen often, but it does pop up. Among other things, several other minor problems can be noted, for example, markers are not always displayed correctly in bulleted lists and so on.

WPS Office has two interface modes, one more similar to Word 2003, and the other more like modern versions. Unfortunately, the modern “ribbon” interface, in my opinion, is not very well designed. However, in any case, the presence of an office suite that, even at the alpha testing stage, provides such a high degree of compatibility with MS Office is very pleasing. Although for everyday work WPS, subjectively, is still “damp”.

Softmaker Office

The third product I want to talk about is Softmaker Office (). Version 2016 for Windows is available on the developer’s website, but only version 2012 is available for Linux so far. For some reason, I didn’t take this office seriously. And in vain. Oddly enough, it is the word processor included in this package that, in my opinion, provides best compatibility with Word. Problems arose only with formulas for which a formula editor other than the “native” Word one was used. Everything else was just great.

Of course, there was a fly in the ointment. Softmaker Office is a paid product. Full version costs 80 dollars. There is a free version, which includes a number of restrictions - if we talk about text editor, then this is the inability to save files in DOCX and PDF formats - only DOC and the “native” format, as well as a number of other restrictions. However, if the office suite is not your main working tool, then free version quite enough. Here, by the way, it is important to note that it is free, including for commercial use.

Otherwise, everything is very good, the program looks serious, the interface, however, is similar to Word 2003, but in the paid version it is quite flexibly customizable. Although, for those who are accustomed to the “ribbon” interface, this may be a small minus.

Calligra Suite

The last thing we will discuss is Calligra Suite. Unfortunately, the discussion will be short. Direct disadvantages include the worst compatibility with Word (do not forget that the article is not about office suites themselves, but about compatibility).

I won’t even describe all the aspects in which Calligra “sucks” in terms of compatibility, there are too many of them. In addition, I personally was not at all impressed by the original interface of the program - all the toolbars in it are located to the right of the text. And although this may be very appropriate on modern wide-format “rectangular” monitors, it turned out to be difficult to get used to, although this is subjective.

Summarize

In recent years, the situation with office suites on Linux has improved radically. At a minimum, there is already Libre Office, which will really easily cover the lion's share of the needs of the average user.

If you need compatibility with Word, you should pay attention to Softmaker Office; the developing WPS Office is at least worth a look - that's for sure.

Calligra Suite, unfortunately, gives the impression of a bent product. From what I've read online, this seems to be the case.

Well, if you need “final and irrevocable” compatibility with Word, a virtual machine with Windows and MS Office is your choice.

If you have Ubuntu as your main system, but you have not been able to master the Open or Libre Office packages, or cannot work in them for other reasons, then you are probably looking for a way to install the familiar Microsoft Office on this OS. I hasten to please you - there are three ways! More precisely, there are a little more of them, but this article will describe the three most convenient and unlike each other (the rest, as a rule, are special cases of these). Let's start with the simplest.

Method one: online office

Actually, you can’t call it an installation, but this method the simplest and most convenient (provided you have the Internet). The official Microsoft Office suite, which is absolutely free, is available at https://www.office.com/. All you need to do is follow this link and start using the full package. Moreover, you can edit documents or tables together with someone else. And for more convenient access, you can install shortcuts using the Linux Web Apps installer for quick launch application data.

Plus this approach is that you will have access to the most at any time latest version office, and from any computer. Also, you will not need to download various installers, configure Wine, etc.

The only disadvantage of this approach is the inability to use the package without an Internet connection (and the access must be stable and at least 1 Mbit/s for more or less comfortable work).

Method two: PlayOnLinux

This method will already require some body movements and some preparation from you. Firstly, you must have downloaded Office package 2010 or 2007, and it must be official, clean, without update packages. You must also have access to the Internet (this is only for the installation period, then the Internet will not be needed).

So, first we install the PlayOnLinux package. To do this, enter the following commands into the terminal:

  • wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_trusty .list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install playonlinux

That's it, now the PlayOnLinux program is installed on your system and you can start installing the office package.

We launch the program (from the shortcut or write in the playonlinux terminal) Click “Next” several times in the initial setup wizard. Now we see the main program window. Go to the Office tab and select Microsoft Office 2010 or 2007 and click “Install”. We wait until the program prepares the environment for installation. Next, you will see a window in which you can specify the source of the Microsoft Office installation - you can specify how iso image, so exe file. That's all, then we install the office as you would do it in Windows. After installation is complete, you will have a full-fledged office on Linux.

It is also worth noting that in addition to Office, you can install other programs and games that are available in the main program window. Their installation is almost identical to the office installation, although there may be some differences.

On the plus side, it is worth noting that now you can open Microsoft files Office by double click, and a full-fledged office will be installed on your system. But there are also disadvantages - updating it will be quite problematic, and they can often appear various errors, besides, it is not yet possible to install Office 2013, but in general this option has the right to life.

Method three: virtual machine

We will use VirtualBox as a virtual machine. This is a software product for virtualizing almost any operating system. Here is a short list of its features:

  • Cross-platform;
  • Modularity;
  • USB 2.0 support;
  • Support for 64-bit guest systems, even if the main system is 32-bit;
  • SMP support in the guest system;
  • Built-in RDP server;
  • Support 3B hardware acceleration;
  • Support for hard drive images;
  • Audio device virtualization support;
  • Networking support;
  • Shared Folders support for simple exchange files between the host and guest systems (for guest systems Windows 2000 and later, Linux and Solaris);
  • Support for desktop integration (seamless mode) of host and guest OS;
  • OVF/OVA format support;
  • It is possible to select the interface language (Russian-language interface is also supported).

That is, it will be like a second computer working in your PC. To install VirtualBox, you can go to the developer’s official website and download the installation package, but you can also use the terminal. To do this, enter:

  • wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add –
  • sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib” >> /etc/apt/sources.list’
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install virtualbox

That's all - the program is installed, now you can run it. But before starting, you need to add your user to a special group:

  • sudo usermod -G vboxusers -a UserName

After running this command, you need to restart your computer. Now we need to download the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack. go to the official website of the program and download in the “Download” section the required version package. After it is downloaded, double-click on it to install.

Now, in fact, we can move on to Windows installation. Open the program and click on the create button. Enter any name, select a type Microsoft Windows and the version depending on the one you want to install. The following is all intuitive:

After we have a new virtual machine, click on the configure button and go to the media tab. Here we select the image of the system that we want to install (you need to download it in advance). Now let's launch virtual machine. Next, just install Windows as usual.

Well, that's all, now you have a full-fledged Windows in which you can install Microsoft Office of any version and work quietly. For more comfortable work you can also install add-ons for the guest OS and “share” several folders in the main OS.

Instead of conclusions

Now you know the whole way to install Microsoft Office on Ubuntu OS. Choose the one closest to you and use it, although no one forbids you to combine all three.

One of the reasons why some people cannot give up Windows is the habit of those programs with which they are accustomed to working on their system. You know, I understand them. I, too, am used to working with certain programs in Linux, and when I find myself in a hostile environment, I feel unarmed, out of habit.

For Windows free programs there are a great many for the office, but there are also a lot of them for Linux, even more than the average user needs home computer. These are the ones I use.

Sudo apt-get install abiword

This is an analogue of Word and this application is often installed in the lungs Linux versions instead of the powerful libreoffice package.

If you also need spreadsheets, such as Excel, then you can install the program Gnumeric. You can install it with the command:

Sudo apt-get install gnumeric

Basic operations can be done in these two applications without installing a huge office suite, most of the functions of which are often simply not needed. What else office programs Can it be used for Linux?

I really like the Cherry Tree notebook that I wrote about in THIS post. But you don’t have to go to the official website, but install it from:

Sudo apt-get install cherrytree


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