Work with document files either imported from programs like MS Word, Excel and other office tools or created natively in formats like ODF or PDF compatible with modern and open standards. Editing, copying and incorporating data in databases is possible.
LibreOffice is an open-source free alternative to heavy commercial office suites like MS Office. While having generally the same functionality, LibreOffice is more open to modification and updates, making it a more attractive suite if you want a comfortable and adjustable tool for working with documentation.
LibreOffice consists of several tools capable of working with documents of any type, from standard Word files and Excel tables to presentations and Publisher files. There's a word processing and desktop publishing tool called Writer; spreadsheet program Calc; tool for creating effective multimedia presentations called Impress; a sketching tool named Draw; database manager Base; formula editor Math; advanced chart and diagram creator Charts. Every tool has all the features of an advanced editor for the kind of files you could work with. The tools work stable and fast, they are easy to use even if you're not an experienced user of office tools.
LibreOffice adds several unique features into its programming, such as the support for ODT documents and the ability to incorporate various plugins and extensions. You can always add new templates for various documents.
Open-source tools sometimes disappoint by being attempts to copy a licensed product. LibreOffice is different in that, it's a genuinely good product itself.
v3.4.602.500 [Apr 18, 2011]
- Fix for defining named ranges should be case-insensitive
- Allow multi-range copy from VBA
- Better way to remove DP objects without reversing order.
- Correctly import from Excel charts with multiple ranges.
- dr78: set app flag in ScGlobal::SetSearchItem
- Fix broken refresh() from UNO API (and Basic).
- Fix for SetNamedRanges speedup
- Fix for changes to range names invalidate stream too
- Fix for check for empty local range names
- Fix for crash with hidden column in Data->Form
- Fix for database ranges don't work in formulas
- Fix for don't write password algorithm in odf 1.0 and 1.1
- Fix for set correct table number in local db data
- Fix for set upper limit for second parameter of tinv to 1E10
- Make strings localizable
- Make sure the drawing layer is initialized before use.
- Prevent double-deletes during removal of pivot tables.
- Set selection request as done for macro recorder
- The previous commit is for not for fdo#.
- Use the correct clip doc instance to copy to.
- Related changes in split components repository to support LCID changes
- Change 2007 XML to 2007/2010 XML in UI strings
- Change 97/XP/2000 to 97/XP/2000/2003
- Related correct import of shared formulas
- Remove link to non-existing topic
- Update the operation of delete and backspace key
- Clean-up of bugfix for the -3-4 branch
- Fix ruler to not generate negative left indent
- Make strings localizable
- Missing icon in Styles and Formatting dialog in Impress
- Add a modification listener on new XDocumentProperties
- Clean-up of bugfix for the -3-4 branch
- Fix for - no update preview
- Fix for change password button is always disabled
- Fix memory exhaustion with String length of STRLEN_MAX
- Fix wrong RTTI baseclass for SfxViewEventHint
- Make these entries localizable
- Null the display pointer after closing the display, fixes
- On recovery from an autosave file use DefaultFilter, seems to fix
- Related changes in split libs-core repository to support LCID changes
- Related: /short fread isn't an error when its eof
- Resolve: post-stl use vector end position not LIST_APPEND
- Related: force .a files to hidden visibility
- Backport fix
- Add Teke-Eboo language
- Add gd_GB (Gaelic, Scottish) locale data
- Change 97/XP/2000 to 97/XP/2000/2003
- Change SV_BUTTONTEXT_LESS from More to Less
- EMF+ records don't need payload all the time
- Fix discarding bracketed prefixes in number formats, such as [RED]
- Half&full width forms need to remain asian
- Wrong csh syntax
- Related: on windows find the openssl libs that _ssl.pyd needs
- Don't crash on undo of ole2 insert
- Don't restore original view settings on temp documents
- fExtChar affects only < 8 (if at all)
- Fix counting the paragraphs
- It really is a LineBorder not a LineBorder2
- Related: crash in new field code
