Chapter 1 · 1.2
Word, Excel and PowerPoint: what they're called in LibreOffice and Euro-Office
The programs have different names, but they mostly do the same things. This table will help you get started.
| Microsoft Office | LibreOffice | Euro-Office |
|---|---|---|
| Word | Writer | Document (the document editor) |
| Excel | Calc | Spreadsheet (the spreadsheet editor) |
| PowerPoint | Impress | Presentation (the presentation editor) |
| Visio (simple drawings) | Draw | Drawing, shapes and diagrams within the editors |
| Acrobat (editing PDFs) | Draw opens and edits PDFs | PDF editor |
| Access | Base (database) | No database. Use Tables in your Nextcloud |
Some terms are different too
| In Word and Excel | In LibreOffice | In Euro-Office |
|---|---|---|
| Styles | Styles | Styles |
| Comments | Comments | Comments |
| Track Changes | Track Changes, Record | Track changes |
| Mail Merge | Letter Wizard (mail merge) | Mail merge |
| Chart | Chart | Chart |
| Conditional Formatting | Conditional (in the Format menu) | Conditional formatting |
| Freeze Panes | Freeze Rows and Columns | Freeze panes |
| Slide Master | Master Slide | Slide Master |
| Ribbon with tabs | Menu bar with toolbars, or the ribbon (see Installing and setting up LibreOffice) | Tabs at the top, like in Word |
Menus or tabs?
Euro-Office has tabs at the top, just like Word: Home, Insert, Layout, References, Collaboration and View. You'll find a tour in A tour of the Euro-Office screen.
By default, LibreOffice has a menu bar (File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Styles, Table, Tools) with toolbars. In this manual, we write a menu path like this: Insert > More Breaks > Manual Break.... Miss the tabs from Word? Then turn on the ribbon (see Installing and setting up LibreOffice). The menu paths in this manual then work through the menu with the three lines.