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Suite of document management solutions for businesses, charities and government organizations with a template repository, autocorrect dictionary, built-in wizards, and more.
Large enterprises, tech startups, legal firms, ed tech companies, digital agencies & recruitment consultants (and more) all user Zamzar to provide file conversion services in a fast, scalable manner.
It has a great toolkit that includes text editor, spreadsheets and presentations. The applications are stable and are improved every day by its large community.
I miss the possibility of teamwork because of the missing cloud connection which was one of the reasons to switch to Microsoft Office.
I love it for standalone use. The menu arrangements are better than the Microsoft products, it crashes far less often, and it is OUTSTANDING for opening older documents such as from WordPerfect.
Some functions can be difficult to find if you are used to other software. Formatting data can be clunky and poorly implemented.
My overall experience is great I definitely love the ease of use and it is a overall most if you wanna alternative to Microsoft office or comparable products.
There were not as many customizations that you can make, which was disappointing. For example, there were only a few color options when making a chart in the Calc program.
The most important feature feature of this software is it's amazing price of FREE. Purchasing Microsoft Office for our non-profit was non-negotiable.
I hate the fact that I've hesitated so long to actually try LibreOffice.
With Zamzar, the results are consistently good. Also, their support is friendly and responsive.
If I *had* to find one con, it's the inability to have several separate api keys for different environments. I ended up having more than one account with them to accomodate this.
I liked the straightforward and quick conversion process of Zamzar along with its super friendly dashboard that shows the live status of document conversion.
Sometimes the files come across a little weird. Also, they recently started charging for more than 5 conversions per day.
It has been improved over the years which has made it a lot easier. Rather than send you an email to download you can do it straight from the browser which I really like.
Some files that we have used have been really large, and have taken a while to convert. They also come across strange, as if they were translated differently.
It is really simple to use, and it's faster than I thought it would be. The free version that we are using has a good allotment of conversions too.
With any other file converter I found, I would have to pay additional fees to convert the file - or to get the file after it's converted, but not with this.
Justin: Hi, I'm Justin, DevOps engineer, and I give LibreOffice a big five out of five stars. For more reviews like these, please click the link below. Before LibreOffice, like a lot of people, I had Microsoft Office. Everybody has Office, right? It was great except I didn't really care for the price tag. It's less of an issue of getting copy at work because you can always get that, as having a copy personally, and I personally do not want to pay Microsoft indefinitely or pay a very large sum of money for something I need to upgrade every so often, so it was mainly a cost issue for me. Number one reason I chose LibreOffice is because it's free as in beer, so you don't pay anything to download or use the software. That alone is a big advantage over Microsoft Office where either you are paying indefinitely or you're paying very large upfront costs every couple of years. Other than that, I'm a big fan of the open source community and LibreOffice is genuinely trying to help the community at large get great software all over the world that people can use. LibreOffice is active in a number of different charities that I support, and so I wanted to be able to support that myself if I could. Onboarding for LibreOffice is relatively straightforward regardless of whatever your platform is. On my Mac, I went to the website libreoffice.org and got the latest version from there. On my Linux boxes, I was able to get them from the stock package repositories or because I'm in Ubuntu, I could just grab the very latest copy from the Snap Store. So regardless of which platform you want to use, it's pretty straightforward. You get it, make your documents, and you're pretty much on your way from there. If you're considering LibreOffice, you've probably heard a lot of people say, oh, but maybe it doesn't have perfect Microsoft Office document compatibility. I have two things to say to that. The first is compatibility has improved significantly over the years. I haven't used LibreOffice off and on for a number of years now, probably at least 10 years, and I've really seen it grow as a project since then, even back from the OpenOffice days leading up to the LibreOffice split to the present, so there has been a lot of progress made with that. The other thing is if we want to get away from using a proprietary standard, then we need to do our part to make that happen. So, using LibreOffice, being able to save documents and DOC format or ODT format rather than DOT, DOCX is a step in the right direction for cross platform compatibility kind of across the board.
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