LibreOffice Archive

New LibreOffice merchandise is here!

T-shirts, hoodies, bags with LibreOffice icons

Get cool LibreOffice merchandise – and support our projects and community! We’ve updated our Spreadshirt shop with new designs, and part of the sales go to The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the suite.

Click here to visit the shop

Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…

Stefan Soyka, StarOffice developer in the early '90s

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 –

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone

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

Create a colour wheel in LibreOffice

Screenshot of colour wheel being created in LibreOffice Calc

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

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

LibreOffice for End User Privacy – TDF’s Annual Report 2024

TDF Annual Report 2024 banner

LibreOffice stands out as a privacy-respecting open source office suite. Unlike proprietary alternatives, the software is designed with privacy, user control and transparency in mind.

(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)

Introduction

Concerns about end user