LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice.
It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organisation.
"Quick find" deck in Sidebar • New spreadsheet functions • Better Impress templates
October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg. We'll have workshops, discussions and lots of fun!
LibreOffice is used by 200 million people around the world. Every major release goes through extensive testing, with Alpha, Beta and Release Candidate versions – and there are regular monthly minor updates to fix issues too. The QA Team analyses bug reports from users, and here’s an example of how quickly they work when everything […]
The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice. Then a few years of stagnation, at a time when it seemed that desktop office suites were destined to die, and fashion was driving users to the cloud. […]
Breakfast, to the venue with some friends; pottered around talking to people, spoke briefly in the Government dev-room to lots of friendly faces. Lunch, got chatting in the queue for chips to several interesting people; back to the booth - before heading back and out to Kasbah in the evening - for a mercifully belly-dancing-free meal. Back to chat to Caolan & his lovely daughter - it was bring-a-family-member-to-work weekend, catch up until late.
Print editions of several LibreOffice 24.2 user guides were published in 2024. You can buy them from Lulu.com. Free PDFs, as always, are available from the LibreOffice website. Calc (May 2024) Impress (July 2024) Draw (August 2024) Writer (March 2024)
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