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LibreOffice is the best free office suite ever, and is available thanks to the combined effort of a large global community, which is also providing professional and volunteer support to LibreOffice users.

LibreOffice enterprise users can obtain professional support services from certified developers (Level 3 Support for feature development or bug/regression fixes), certified migration professionals (project management for migrations or large deployments), and certified trainers (basic, intermediate or advanced trainings).

LibreOffice individual users can get volunteer support from community members, through different channels: the most popular are mailing lists and the Ask LibreOffice website.

LibreOffice Calc allows to show quite easily the top 10 values in a spreadsheet column with the AutoFilter function, which is activated with the menu Data > Filter > AutoFilter (image on the left). Once active, the function shows a down arrow in the first cell of each column, which opens a drop down menu with different options (image on the right). The third option from the top, after Sort Ascending and Sort Descending, is Top 10 (values).

 LibreOffice allows to select the language to check the spelling of a document – or a paragraph – by clicking on the language area of the status bar. The action opens a menu with different options: first, the available dictionaries for the document, and then other choices from disabling the spell checker to choosing a language for a paragraph.

LibreOffice allows to save different versions of the same document in the ODF file. The feature can be accessed with the menu File > Versions…, which opens the dialog windows on the left.

The different options on this dialog window allow to save a new version of the document, or to force the software to always save a new version on closing the document.

Once the different versions are saved, they are listed in the box of Existing Versions. The user can select each version, and perform several operations: open, show or delete each single version, or compare two versions.