The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.
However, to realise its potential, it is
Yearly Archive:: 2025
20 Jun 2025
Understanding ODF compliance and interoperability
18 Jun 2025
Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…
LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 –
16 Jun 2025
LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy
Marco Marega writes:
Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group. It’s inside a
14 Jun 2025
ODF: An Analysis of the Adoption of the Open Document Format
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent. However, this does not necessarily mean that
12 Jun 2025
Create a colour wheel in LibreOffice
Regina Henschel writes:
Susanne Mohn asked on the German-language user’s mailing list how to create a colour wheel with LibreOffice. It was not about the colours themselves, but about the geometry. How do you create a circle or ring with equally
11 Jun 2025
The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and LibreOffice
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/
The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and