When choosing an office suite to install on our computer, we have both free and paid alternatives. If we do not plan to spend a single euro, the LibreOffice open source project will be very useful. What’s more, thanks to its developers it’s becoming easier to migrate from the popular Microsoft Office.
Whether to carry out personal homework, for office projects, or to prepare documents for our studies, a suite with these characteristics is almost mandatory. As we mentioned, there are several proposals of this type that can be very interesting and useful. Office is perhaps the best known and most widespread in the world, but we must bear in mind that it is a product for which we have to pay.
If we take into consideration that not everyone is willing to pay for certain programs, alternatives must be sought. The main competitor of the Microsoft product for most is LibreOffice, the open source suite that we want to talk about in these lines. This is an office suite that was initially developed from the well-known OpenOffice. But with the passage of time, this was unmarked from its predecessor and surpassed it in terms of functionality and compatibility.
One of the secrets of its success is the constant updates that its developers send us to improve the different office programs included. Here we must bear in mind that these are not only focused on increasing and improving the functionality of the program. From the beginning, those responsible for LibreOffice have made it very clear that everything related to compatibility with Office is extremely important .
Open Office documents directly in LibreOffice
And it is that Microsoft’s proposal has been the leader in the sector for many years, so they try to facilitate the migration by going to the facilities when working with documents created in Office. Next, we are going to show you a change that you can carry out in the installation process of the open source suite . To give you an idea, this simple change in the configuration of the suite will allow us to directly open the Office documents here.
There is no doubt that all of this will be very useful for users who find themselves forced to go work with old files created in Microsoft programs . By double-clicking on them, from that moment they will open in the open source proposal. For all this that we tell you, the first thing we do is start installing LibreOffice in a conventional way.
Of course, we recommend carrying out a custom installation of the set of applications in order to control the process. There will come a time when we will see a window on the screen that reads File type at the top. Well, it is worth mentioning that this is the option that precisely interests us in this case. We say this because the voters we find here give us the opportunity to set LibreOffice as the default application to open the aforementioned Office documents.
We find a total of four selectors that refer to the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio programs so that we can mark those that we are interested in changing.
