Test 1 Compatibility

Working with Word and Excel files

Google and iWork both did a good job of importing our Word document, correctly rotating text that had been turned through 90° and handling colours, highlights and lists well. However, some line spacing had changed, which pushed elements onto following pages, and Google discarded our watermark. LibreOffice straightened rotated text, but retained the watermark and the line spacing for a very good result overall.

Google Docs and Numbers rendered our spreadsheet faithfully, although neither of them could reproduce Microsoft Office’s data bars. Numbers straightened out our rotated text. However, LibreOffice beat them both, retaining the rotated text, conditional formatting, merged cells and even the data bars for a close to flawless performance.

Aside from Microsoft Office, the apps all swapped out any instance of Microsoft’s body font, Calibri.