Apache OpenOffice Calc Reviews

It meets our current needs in the company in terms of writing documents and creating and presenting reports in spreadsheets and because it is open source you can use it without restriction allowing you to save money on the purchase of licenses; its key point is that it is multiplatform and besides being lightweight you can use it without consuming many resources.

When saving you have to use the MS Office format to be able to share a document, the user interface needs a good update as it is not as striking, it does not have the option to save to the cloud as MS Office does, it lacks integration with the MS Office suite so that when you migrate a document it does not lose any functionality.

Works fine for the most part, and does import all the usual web file formats for organised data

It doesn't open the latest MS Office .*x files, and it's much more out of date then the equivalent LibreOffice Calc

I am using Open Office spreadsheets daily. I like that it has almost exactly the same functionality as Microsoft Excel, but is a free product. I started using it back in 2009 when switching from Windows to Linux and continue using to this day, now on Mac. It is really nice that the content can be exported in XLS format for those using more traditional products.

It is a little frustrating that I cannot copy-paste the spreadsheet content into Google Spreadsheets without losing formulas. Also the formatting is usually lost. I use Google Spreadsheets to share the numbers with my colleagues and prospective clients.

It has all that a person needs for his/her personal use when he/she cannot afford Microsoft excel's subscription. You can choose what you want to delete.

Sometimes formulas working in excel which is provided by someone doesn't work in open office calc. Calc has less chart options as compared to excel.

It has most if not all of the features its competitors offers.
It's free.

Usability was not the best.
It may lack some of the polish of the other tools.

The first thing is this software is free and a powerful tool. It's an alternative to the private software and in the same way you can open the file of a private software with OpenOffice Calc.

The truth, I don't have any disappointment for this software. I think it's easy for use and very complete for make whatever calc.

Being free is a key advantage here. Filetypes from other software such as MS Office (Excel) can be imported easily, but Calc also integrates with the rest of Apache's OpenOffice Suite too. The software's functionality itself is great too.

It can be difficult to do some very specific tasks, although this is often due to being used to / familiar with MS Office / Excel, and therefore needing to make small adjustments to allow for this.

Let's me create and edit my spreadsheets with ease. Great import functionality for CSV and Excel file formats.

The graphing and visualization features are not as well developed as the most recent versions of Microsoft Excel.

Calc has been great for importing various file formats and can also handle importing CSVs in a very flexible manner.

It was easy to use and the forums often got me out of trouble when seeking support or a how-to guide.

Instability of the desktop app cost us a lot of time and eventually forced us to move away from it. All the while, it wasn't able to export .xslx files, even if it could open them, which was a handicap and concerned me that our reputation would be affected because it appeared we were using outdated software if only able to export as .xls.

Almost all features used by average Excel user are available in Calc.
Works on both, windows and Linux.
Free licence.

User interface is basic and seems outdated. It takes time to get used to after migrating from excel.

Calc can do everything that Excel does. Sometimes it takes a little research to figure out how to do things but the community that supports it is awesome!

It took me a while to get used to the way of doing things that are different than Excel.

It's free. It does 85% of what MS Excel can do. And it's free.

The program is comparable to Excel, but more clunky and hard to operate in certain ways. The fluidity and set-up of the UI is not as good.

It functions as a very basic spreadsheet. You get some of the basic functions and calculations.

If you are a very basic spreadsheet user, OpenOffice Calc will be fine for you. Also, it is free.

It lacks so many features and built-in functions that I need and use on a regular basis with my preferred spreadsheet application.

It is very similar to Microsoft excel but it is free. The features are very similar and I use it daily

There are additional features that maybe Microsoft Excel does not have, but this is to do better than Microsoft, the software is already very good

OpenOffice Calc really helps a lot when when dealing with my spreadsheet files, even if I'm outside the office I can easily manage to check what files I need through this software. OpenOffice calc is very flexible to use and it has stable version unlike its early versions. And it is free.

Just like OpenOffice tools, some of the contents may get blank or corrupted when converting/importing to MS of

Free, so you can just have it installed everywhere. gets your basic stuff done, and outputs in useful file formats

Buggy and rough. sometimes things just do not move as smoothly as you'd like, or work exactly as you'd hope intuitively.

It's fully compatible with all Excel-style spreadsheet formats

Formatting is not the same as Microsoft's, so importing can be a bit iffy.