If you use other operating system and have a programming capability and want to give Gnumeric a try, the source code of Gnumeric is available and free to download. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Linux. Gnumeric is a standalone spreadsheet software. Thus, hardly any difference between Apache OpenOffice Calc and LibreOffice Calc, be it user interface or features. Apache OpenOffice Calc is also available for Linux, Windows and macOS. The fact, LibreOffice is forked from OpenOffice. OpenOffice once become a favorite office suite in the open source communities scope before it was taken over by Apache and renamed to “Apache OpenOffice”. Apache OpenOffice Calc is one of parts of Apache OpenOffice. Apache OpenOffice is also an open source office suite just like LibreOffice. LibreOffice itself is a cross-platform software, available for Linux, Windows, macOS and even Android and iOS. This spreadsheet software uses OpenDocument format as the default spreadsheet format. Switching from Microsoft Excel to LibreOffice Calc, you will still be able to work on the spreadsheet files you created with Microsoft Excel since LibreOffice Calc is compatible with Microsoft Excel file format. LibreOffice Calc is a part of LibreOffice, an open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation. LibreOffice Calc is not available as a standalone application so you have to install the whole office suite of LibreOffice to use it. But, if you have used old version of Microsoft Excel (2003 and earlier), chance are it takes lesser time for you to familiarize yourself with it. It will probably take few days or weeks to familiarize yourself with LibreOffice Calc after switching away from Microsoft Excel since the interface of this software is a bit different. LibreOffice Calc is one of the best free spreadsheet software alternatives to Microsoft Excel. In addition to two mentioned spreadsheet software above, there are also other free spreadsheet software you can use to work on spreadsheet files. Especially for Google Sheets, you don’t even need to install additional software since it is a web-based software. And, you don’t need to spend a dime to use them.

Spreadsheet software like LibreOffice Calc and Google Sheets are also capable of handling Excel’s job to create spreadsheet files. Microsoft Excel is obviously not the only spreadsheet software out there. It seems that Microsoft Excel has become a standard of spreadsheet software. Everywhere, everyone will think of Microsoft Excel to work on spreadsheets.

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