

You do not need to uninstall Java prior to uninstalling OpenOffice.Open Office has excellent compatibility with Office formats and can export to PDF from all three apps.īy default, Open Office uses the Open Document standard for native files, but you can change it to save to Microsoft formats, and it can read and write existing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

You can’t use 32-bit of one and 64-bit of the other or vice versa. If you need Java then make sure to have a 64-bit Java matching your 64-bit installation of LibreOffice, or a 32-bit Java matching a 32-bit installation. In general LibreOffice works fine without Java. You need Java JRE for only some tasks (database related and some wizards, or if you want to install extensions that use Java). You don’t need Visual C++, but may need a specific runtime library which LibreOffice will ask for and the installation process will attempt to download and install, so make sure you don’t have MS-Windows updates disabled. Removing OpenOffice should not delete any of the documents you created (unless you have a weird document path setup where documents live under one of the installation paths).

You can install LibreOffice in parallel with OpenOffice. If you imagine of “full ‘Transition Heading’” as some kind of universal guide to “what is not needed”, then it’s impossible thing. There is the installation guide linked from download page there’s finite amount of what is needed, and infinite amount of what is not needed. Generally, your questions fall into the category of “this is not needed that is not needed…”.
