Yes. She should be using the same tools that all her peers and instructors will be using. When (not if) there is an incompatibility between Libre Office and MS Office, it is guaranteed to arise at the ...

Editor's note: The article's headline has been updated because the original headline misrepresented Microsoft's MS Office product. I've long been a fan of the open-source LibreOffice suite. It works ...

Android: LibreOffice is one of our favorite office alternatives, and it stands up well to the competition. If you need to read your documents when you're away from the computer, LibreOffice Viewer ...

The Document Foundation is reopening the LibreOffice Online repository, which was frozen in 2022. The reasons from back then are considered outdated.

Libre Office is a great choice for anyone who wants an open-source Office alternative. Libre Office came to be when the community developing Open Office jumped ship several years back and created ...

OpenOffice.org has long been one of the top competitors to Microsoft Office, but the open source productivity suite’s future was clouded in 2009 when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, which had ...

Associate Editor Nate Ralph is an aspiring wordsmith, covering mobile software and hardware for CNET Reviews. His hobbies include dismantling gadgets, waxing poetic about obscure ASCII games, and ...

Programmers gave Oracle's OpenOffice a good code-scrubbing to build the LibreOffice 3.3 offshoot. Expect more visible changes with 3.4 later this year. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

It’s been less than two months since the Document Foundation announced that it was launching its own “fork” of the OpenOffice.org productivity software suite, but already its new LibreOffice ...

Christian Schaller, a software engineering manager at Red Hat, has written an An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team to suggest that they "re-direct people who go to the ...