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• Sliding over to LibreOffice — or not

  Posted on July 19, 2021 at 02:41 CDT by Sandra Henry-Stocker • Comment in the Forums

  PRODUCTIVITY

  

  By Sandra Henry-Stocker

  LibreOffice is a great replacement for Microsoft Office.

  It provides a very similar set of applications. All are top-quality, easy to use, versatile, and well supported. This includes tools to create documents, spreadsheets, slide shows, databases, drawings, etc. LibreOffice and MS Office are similar enough that you’re likely to get off to a fast start when you first use any of the apps. LibreOffice is also completely free — no initial price tag and no monthly fees.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.27.0 (2021-07-19).

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• Open source rushes in where Microsoft fears to tread

  Posted on September 13, 2011 at 19:54 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I mentioned two weeks ago that Microsoft was shutting down its user-submitted Office template site.

  Now comes word that LibreOffice is ramping up their user-submitted template site.

  OpenOffice.org has had one all along, and it holds almost a thousand templates.

  Details in my InfoWorld Tech Watch blog.

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• OpenOffice.org still viable under Oracle?

  Posted on November 23, 2010 at 22:00 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you’re thinking about committing to OpenOffice, you should wait.

  The situation – and the future of OpenOffice – isn’t at all clear.

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