OnlyOffice Desktop
Version: 6.4.1 Web: https://github.com/ onlyoffice/DesktopEditors
You should already be accustomed to the OnlyOffice bundle thanks to the plethora of reviews and tutorials Linux Format dedicates to this outstanding office suite. It seems to hold a deserved second place after LibreOffice in terms of capabilities, performance and ease of use, which were all thoroughly tested in the office suite Roundup in LXF279.
The team behind this software maintains a snappy development speed and frequently releases new versions, so now we have OnlyOffice Desktop 6.4.1.
Another set of improvements landed this time, such as auto-capitalisation of the first letter in a sentence, a new document review mode, the new sparkline object in Spreadsheet, support for importing TXT and CSV files, and more. If you already use OnlyOffice Desktop, be sure to update to this version to enjoy all the additions.
The suite may not be perfect – it tends to load and save files slowly, and the UI doesn’t always feel smooth – but it’s a well-developed, mature office suite that handles even complex Microsoft Office files like a charm, carefully retaining every bit of formatting.
OnlyOffice also has a breathtaking set of default plugins, including an image editor, YouTube integration, a translation service and even a baked-in OCR module. The web version of OnlyOffice ships with even more plugins, but the desktop edition’s standard set is already very generous, and missing plugins can always be installed manually. Locate and grab a plugin from OnlyOffice’s GitHub page, repack its files as a ZIP archive, then rename it so it has the .plugin extension. After that, simply go to Plugins>Settings and locate your plugin file. Hopefully, some day the OnlyOffice team will roll out an automatic plugin store integration to save us from doing in manually.