| Major Feature Differences
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Online: LibreOffice-based Collabora Online Writer 22.05
Chromebook App : Collabora office writer
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Online: MS Word for the web
Chromebook App : discontinued
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| WYSIWYG – Full Fidelity Editing, PDF generation, Printing
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Yes. What You See Is What You Get. Any document being edited looks the same when saved as a PDF or when printed (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No. Documents being edited do not look the same when saved as a PDF or when printed [153]
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| Set, change or delete document open Password Protected Files (encryption password)
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Yes. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No. Word for the web can’t encrypt a document with a password, and it can’t open documents encrypted with a password[154]
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| Edit Password to Modify Documents
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Yes. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [155]
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| Adjust Table Sort Order
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Yes. And additional options: Sort in multiple sequential columns or rows, and for each column or row choose alphanumeric or numeric, ascending or descending. Option to match case (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No. Not possible to sort by column or row[156]
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| Format Table Cells
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Yes. By Number, Percent, Currency, Date, Time, Scientific, Fraction, Boolean Value and Text. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No
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| Headers and Footers appear in the editable document
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Yes. It is a WYSIWYG word processor. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No
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| Find and Replace with options as available on desktop
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Yes (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No. Very Basic.
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| Clipboard (Copy and Paste)
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Yes. Copying and pasting within the web app works with advanced document features. Pasting content copied from outside the web app is advanced (via Online)
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Partial. Copying and pasting within the web app is functional for basic features available in the app. Pasting content copied from outside the web app is limited, such as it cannot copy and paste a hyperlink without losing the link. [157]
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| Minor Feature Differences
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Online: LibreOffice-based Collabora Online Writer 22.05
Chromebook App : Collabora agency writer
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Online: MS Word for the web
Chromebook App : break
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| Templates, browse and start from professionally designed templates
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Yes. (via Online)
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No [158]
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| Save in Microsoft Word 97 – Word 2003 format (.doc)
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Yes. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [159]
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| Save in EPUB e-book format (.epub)
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Yes. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No
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| Run Microsoft Visual Basic Macros, (docm, dotm)
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Yes. Support a large portion of Microsoft Visual Basic Macros (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [160]
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| Title Page
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Yes. With options for number of title pages, page to start at, title style, title numbering (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No
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| Thesaurus
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Yes. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No
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| Page Gutter Margins (book / thesis binding)
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Yes. Gutter Margins can be positioned on the left or top (via Online)
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No
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| Add and Edit Page Backgrounds
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Yes. Colour, Gradients, Bitmap, Pattern and Hatch, options available for each of these are the same or similar as in the LibreOffice desktop applications (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [161]
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| Add and Edit Page Transparency
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Yes. Transparencies, options available are the same or similar as in the LibreOffice desktop applications (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [162]
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| Add and Edit Page Borders
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Yes. Borders, options available are the same or similar as in the LibreOffice desktop applications (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [163]
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| Add and Edit Page Columns
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Yes. Columns, options available are the same or similar as in the LibreOffice desktop applications (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No. [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-online-service-description/office-online-service-description
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| Display Headers and Footers, Footnotes, Endnotes in-line in the document
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Yes. A WYSIWYG word processor (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [164]
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| Add, Edit, View Charts
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Yes. Full options as available in desktop (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No. They appear as placeholders that you cannot edit, move or resize [165]
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| Add, Edit, View Shapes
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Yes. Full options as available in desktop (via Online)
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No. They appear as placeholders that you cannot edit, move or resize [166]
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| Add, Edit, View SmartArt and WordArt (aka Fontwork)
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Yes (via Online)
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No. They appear as placeholders that you cannot edit, move or resize [167]
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| Watermarks
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Yes (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [168]
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| Bookmarks
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Yes (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No [169]
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| Fields
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Yes (With options under sub-categories of Documents, Cross-references, Functions, DocInformation and variables (via Online) Chromebook App has a few less options
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No [170]
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| Edit Cross References
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Yes (via Online and Chromebook App)
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No. It is not possible to edit the destination [171]
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| Index
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Yes, options available are the same or similar as in the LibreOffice desktop applications (via Online)
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No [172]
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| Table: “Optimal Column Widths” and “Optimal Row Height”
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Yes (via Online)
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No [173]
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| Full control of anchoring with visible anchor points for images etc.
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Yes. WYSIWYG precision visible anchoring (via Online)
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No
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| Text Box
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Yes. With full desktop options including, size, anchors, protection, borders, rotation, corners, shading, etc. (via Online)
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No. They appear as placeholders that you cannot edit, move or resize [174]
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| Citations and bibliography
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Yes (via Online)
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No [175]
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| Rich Fields Support – tab through editable fields; skip protected sections
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Yes. DOC and DOCX forms
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No
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| Table of contents
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Yes. Options available are the same or similar as in the LibreOffice desktop applications (via Online and Chromebook App)
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Partial. Basic options. [176]
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| Page Sizes
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Yes. Letter, Legal, A3, A4, A5, A6, B4 (ISO), B5 (ISO), B6 (ISO), Long Bond, Tabloid, B4 (JIS), B5 (JIS), B6 (JIS), 16 Kai, 32 Kai, Big 32 Kai, User, DL Envelope, C6 Envelope, C6/5 Envelope, C5 Envelope, C4 Envelope, #6 3/4 Envelope, #7 3/4 (Monarch) Envelope, #9 Envelope, #10 Envelope, #11 Envelope, #12 Envelope, Japanese Postcard. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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Partial. Letter, Legal, Executive, A4, A5, and custom size layouts [177]
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| Wrap text around images
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Yes. Full options for wrapping text around images including: before, after, parallel, contour wrapping, in front and behind, precision visible anchoring (via Online)
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Partial. No effective wrapping, the text does not wrap around images.
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| Word count and character count
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Yes. Accurate count of words and characters. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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Partial. A rough count of words. [178]
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| Table: “Distribute Columns Evenly” and “Distribute Rows Evenly”
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No (#3329)
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Yes. Called “Distribute Columns” and “Distribute Rows”
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| Co-authoring between online and native app
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No. For more information the see the row “Synchronous collaborative editing”
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Yes. MS Office 2019 sales version on Windows introduced real-time co-authoring with Word for the web
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| Table Autoformat Styles to choose from
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No (#4356)
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Yes
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| Add-ins
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No
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Yes
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| Dictate
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No
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Yes
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| Emoji
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No
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Yes
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| Online Video
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No
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Yes. With preview, supported video providers: YouTube, SlideShare, Vimeo, Stream, Flipgrid, TED
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| Share as Embedded HTML
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No
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Yes
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| Reuse Files
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No
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Yes. Open another document in a preview enabling selection of paragraphs or images for insertion, or for adding a link to that document.
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| Catchup
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No
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Yes. View changes your collaborators have made to a file since you last opened it.
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| Insert Equations with Structures
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No. (#4049)
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Yes
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| Insert Image options
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Partial. Select by folder and file only. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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Yes. Select by folder and file, also by previewing categorised images
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| Margins
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Partial. Custom options. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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Yes. Custom options and 5 presets.
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| Captions
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No
|
No [179]
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| Mail Merge
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No
|
No [180]
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| Cover Pages
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Yes. via Styles First Page
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Yes. Includes samples [181]
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| Bullets, Numbering, Outline, Images, Alignment
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Yes. 79 bullets inc 71 resizable images, 8 numbering, 8 outline, comprehensive position alignment options. (via Online and Chromebook App)
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Yes. 17 bullets inc 13 images*, 15 numbering, 3 outline, minimal position alignment options. *not resizable, but has option to define new bullet points from the Symbol library
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| Accessibility checker
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Yes (via Online)
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Yes
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