Portable LibreOffice

An Office-like suite of tools has become a much-needed tool on any computer user. While many prefer Microsoft’s toolbox, there are others that prefer working with an open-source alternative, such as Portable LibreOffice.

Designed as the install-free counterpart of LibreOffice, the suite of tools enables you to benefit from the perks of a portable application. You can use Portable LibreOffice on the go and launch it from a removable drive, if you need to. No traces are left behind, meaning the host system is not affected in any way.

Once Portable LibreOffice is unpacked, you can start browsing its applications. The main window provides one-click access to all the tools in the suite, allows you to re-open recent documents and comes with a series of ready-to-use templates that you can try out.

Keep in mind that Portable LibreOffice also features support for cloud-based storage services (such as Google Drive and OneDrive), as well as FTP or WebDav connections. It also comes with SharePoint integration, OpenText, Nuxeo, IBM Connections Cloud, and more.

It is possible to open or create multiple types of documents from the main window of Portable LibreOffice, be them text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, databases and formula. We will talk a bit about each software tool included in the suite in the following.

The LibreOffice Writer provides a user-friendly yet feature-rich toolbox. It is meant to provide a reliable text editor, with generous text editing and formatting functions, thesaurus, word count and spell checking.

Spreadsheets can be created and edited with LibreOffice Calc. There is nothing much different from any other spreadsheet software you stumbled upon: you organize data in rows and columns, place formulas and carry out complex math operations.

There is also a drawing tool available, which helps you create simple to intricate designs with included tables, charts, images and so on. In turn, these designs can be exported to various formats.

To make things as easy as possible, Portable LibreOffice also comes with a database connection tool with support for some of the most widely used database applications: MySQL, Firebird, PostgreSQL, Access, and so on.

With more for you to discover than described above, Portable LibreOffice provides a reliable suite of tools packed under an open-source license. Not only that it includes several powerful tools, but it also delivers several templates and built-in wizards to help you create letters, faxes and agendas alongside the common Office documents.