Contents. Introduction This page compares the features of LibreOffice 6.1.3 and Microsoft Office 2016 / 365. It separates major and minor feature differences and also includes notes on LibreOffice extensions.

The comparison highlights differences and therefore does not display any features which are present in both office suites. The feature comparison table is continuously being updated and is work in progress. It is a compilation by users and not an official document by the Document Foundation. Please feel free to improve this page. Last update to this table was made at General office suite: LibreOffice vs. Microsoft Office Major Feature Differences LibreOffice 6.1 MS Office 2016 / 365 Cross-platform availability (desktop),. (based on the same code base).

Windows and macOS. Windows and macOS versions have some document format compatibility problems, somewhat different feature sets and differences in the user interface; macOS version does not include the database application MS Access, does not include MS Publisher, and also lacks a number of other features (see below). Feature inconsistencies/differences in Windows versions, between 'MS Office 2016' sales version and the 'Office 2016 for Office 365' rental version: some features are being subsequently included only in the rental version (newly added features also differ between macOS and MS Windows) leading to inconsistencies in the feature set (see below). Supported versions of MS Windows Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008, Server 2012, Server 2016. Versions until LibreOffice 5.4 still also support Windows XP SP3, Vista. Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Server 2016. Supported versions of macOS 10.9+ (Mavericks).

10.10+ (Yosemite) Portable version that runs on USB flash disks (without installation) Yes No Open Source Yes, licensed under and others. No, proprietary and closed-source Full integration of all office components Supported. Download brother driver for mac.

From within each office component, files of all other components can be opened and be newly created. Central with access to office modules, recently used files and templates. Not supported Availability free of charge Yes (, ) No, proprietary software to purchase or rent. When subscription for the rental version ends, applications enter read-only mode (view or print) and no new documents can be created.

The purchase-version is a perpetual license. One-month trial version available for the rental version (but not for the one-time purchase version).

Extension availability Complex ecosystem of extensions (over 360 on and over 800 on ), including automatic updates. Partly, no centralized extension system for add-ons and macros. Microsoft AppSource for Office 365. Office Apps not supported on macOS.

Localization 115 languages 91 languages in Windows version, 27 languages in macOS version (display language for (some) office applications), Support of (RTL) languages (e.g. Arabic) and other complex scripts Comprehensive support, based on text shaping library Supported on Windows, mobile and online versions and macOS. Additional writing aids Extended support (spell-check dictionaries, hyphenation patterns, thesaurus and grammar check, specialized dictionaries as extensions (, ). More limited, 'proofing tools' for 92 languages in Windows version, 58 in macOS version., Language technology Comprehensive support, based on the most popular spellchecking library, Limited Support of complex languages and special smart-font features (ligatures, true small caps, old style numbers, proportional or mono-spaced numbers, capital spacing, and true superscript/subscript) Limited support: full support of SIL Graphite font technology (,) and full support of OpenType optional features (,) by syntax, without UI:. Interoperability: No support for optional OpenType features in OOXML, and ODF 1.2 don’t provide OpenType optional features support Limited via OpenType supporting ligatures, stylistic sets, number spacing options, number forms, and contextual alternates. Support for optional OpenType features in OOXML.

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Support of font variation Limited support for font rendering on screen, no support for printing and PDF export. Limited support for font rendering on screen, no support for printing and PDF export. Easy access to vector clip art Yes via LO Gallery (clipart extensions ( or )).

Extension for the integration of clipart from Selection more limited. Feature to include a selection of ' ('Icons' not supported in MS Office 2016 sales version and not supported in macOS version) Macro scripting languages Multiple languages, support for wide variety of languages (LibreOffice Basic, JavaScript, BeanShell, and Python). Import and export of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), see ( and the ). Single language, support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Indirectly also Visual Basic or Visual C# by using automation.

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CMIS protocol support to access Document Management Systems Support for Alfresco, Google GDrive, Nuxeo, MS SharePoint, MS OneDrive, IBM FileNet Lotus Live Files, Lotus Quickr Domino, OpenDataSpace, and OpenText ELS. Inbuilt support only for MS SharePoint and MS OneDrive Support of ISO standards Advanced support, ODF v1.2 extended Limited support in MS Windows version, and online version, ODF v1.2.

Support of ODF in macOS version and mobile versions (Android, iOS, Windows 10 Mobile) are limited and require the use of an online file format conversion service. PDF export extended options Multiple options (Additional options: Tagged PDF, detailed image settings, Hybrid PDF, transition effects, extended security and permission options, PDF forms, initial view settings, extended handling of URLs, digital signatures, and PDF signatures according to standard). Support for font embedding of all font types (incl. OpenType.otf fonts). High or low quality PDF, page and markup to print in Access, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; pictures resolution and non-printing informations in Publisher. No support for font embedding of OpenType (.otf) fonts in PDF export. Document classification Document classification in Writer, Calc, and Impress according to TSCP-standards (also with multiple policies).

No inbuilt document classification system, but Information Rights Management (IRM) supported Import of SVG vector graphics (.svg,.svgz) Supported.svg files supported in rental version and macOS sales version, not supported in MS Office 2016 Windows sales version. Import of Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) vector graphics (.eps) Supported (with some rendering issues:, ) Support for.eps imaged turned off by default due to security issues, but can be manually enabled via Windows registry in Office 2016 sales version. Support entirely removed in Office 2016/365 rental version (, ). Rendering issues of.eps files in PDF export.