In the age of the cloud, most people think they don’t have “real” files any more, as these have been replaced by pointers in an online system. They don’t realise they have lost their freedom until they download the file to edit it on their laptop. At that point, they realize that without buying a proprietary office suite they are unable to access their very own contents, as these are hostage of a proprietary file format.…
17 Mar 2020
Document Freedom in 2020
19 Feb 2020
10 great LibreOffice-only features
LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice, which had its last major release (4.1) back in 2014, as you can see in this timeline – click to enlarge. And, of course, it’s still free and open source:
We release a new major version every six months – so let’s check out some of the great features our community and certified developers have added in recent years!…
04 Feb 2020
LibreOffice, OpenOffice(.org) and Go-OO timeline of major releases
History time! LibreOffice is a successor to OpenOffice(.org) and StarOffice before that. We have new major releases every six months, bringing important new features, security updates and compatibility improvements. This chart shows these major releases (click to enlarge)…
29 Jan 2020
Performance-focused LibreOffice 6.4 is available for download
Berlin, January 29, 2020 – The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 6.4, a new major release providing better performance, especially when opening and saving spreadsheets and presentations, and excellent compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.
LibreOffice offers the strongest compatibility in the office suite arena, starting from native support for the Open Document Format (ODF) – with superior security and interoperability features over proprietary formats – to almost perfect support for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.…
27 Jan 2020
Installing LibreOffice on Windows 10 in “S mode”
Certain versions of Microsoft Windows include “S mode” (also known as “Windows 10 S” or “Windows 10S”), which limits the range of software that users can install, and imposes other restrictions.
There are at least 75 million LibreOffice users who have installed the software on Windows 10 without any security or performance issues, so we would like to offer the same possibility to Windows 10 “S mode” users.…
21 Jan 2020
ODF 1.3 approved as OASIS Committee Specification
OASIS is pleased to announce that Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.3 from the OpenDocument TC has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification.
The OpenDocument Format is an open XML-based document file format for office applications, to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. OpenDocument Format v1.3 is an update to the international standard Version 1.2, which was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO/IEC 26300 in 2015.…