The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:
General information
Platforms listed are for when a local application is available that does not require network connectivity to function.
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS combination, there are five possibilities:
No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
Partial indicates that the office suite lacks important functionality and it is still being developed, or it is online only so requires network connectivity to function.
Beta indicates that while a version of the office suite is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
Yes indicates that the office suite has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
Dropped indicates that while the office suite works, new versions are no longer being released for the indicated OS; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
^ abcdOffline editing when used with Chrome or Edge web browser.
^60.00 per account per year. 30 day-trial at no cost. No cost for education and non-profit.
^ abOffline editing when used with Chrome web browser.
^€29.99/year for all platforms. No cost with ads and limited support.
^75-7,200 per year for commercial use. No cost for non-commercial use, mobile apps are not available with community edition.
^29.90 yearly sub for Office NX Home, 49.90 yearly sub for Office NX Universal, 99.95 to purchase Office Standard, 129.95 to purchase Office Professional. Free trial available for 30 days.
^ abMicrosoft's binary file formats for Office 97-2003
^ abAn open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics
^ abA file format created by Microsoft for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics
^ abMicrosoft's default file formats for Office 2007 and above
^ abA partially open file format to present documents, including text formatting and images. It includes proprietary technologies defined only by Adobe that are not standardized and whose specifications are published only on Adobe's website, many of these are not supported by popular third-party implementations of PDF.
^ abcdeNot included in this office suite, but provided in the Desktop Environment.
^Supported in Desktop apps (Windows, Mac and Linux), Import only for Android, iOS, ChromeOS and Online.
^LibreOffice Writer and Draw contain desktop publishing features, but feature sets are not equal for both components.[36] Although Draw can import Microsoft Publisher files, it has problems of creating complex editorial projects.[37] For example, alternate glyphs in fonts cannot be used automatically.[38] Official tech support recommended Scribus for desktop publishing tasks.[39]
^A lightweight, web-based version of Visio is available to Microsoft 365 business subscribers. Full Visio is available to organizations as a separate purchase from Office.[40]
^The presentation program (Powerpoint) was created by Forethought, Inc. and later purchased by Microsoft Corporation for $14 million (~$32.2 million in 2023). "COMPANY NEWS; Microsoft Buys Software Unit". The New York Times. 1987-07-31. Retrieved 2006-12-02. Microsoft created the other two core compenents of their office suite, the word processor (Word) and the spreadsheet program (Excel).
^"Does ProjectLibre offer export and import features ?". ProjectLibre. January 1, 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. Retrieved July 10, 2015. You can cut/paste spreadsheet data into the spreadsheets of ProjectLibre. You can import the .csv into OpenOffice or LibreOffice spreadsheets. You can also rearrange the spreadsheet in ProjectLibre to whatever columns match up and then just paste the data into ProjectLibre. We can do a mapping/import in the future to allow import directly of .csv. There is just a lot of things on the list.
^"LibreOffice Version 4.2 Getting Started Guide"(PDF). LibreOffice Documentation Team. June 18, 2014. pp. 304–307. Retrieved April 13, 2015. LibreOffice provides several ways to send documents quickly and easily as e-mail attachments in one of three formats: OpenDocument (LibreOffice's default format), Microsoft formats, or PDF.
