Newsletter Archives
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The legacy and vitality of LibreOffice
PRODUCTIVITY
By Sandra Henry-Stocker
If you’re a little nervous about getting started with LibreOffice, you might be asking yourself where this office suite came from, whether it’s still being developed, and where you might go for support.
Here’s some information to help answer those questions.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.32.0 (2021-08-23).
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Sliding over to LibreOffice — or not
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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Freeware Spotlight — Staying at home edition
BEST UTILITIES
By Deanna McElveen
We’re certainly living in a different world right now — social-distancing with friends, co-workers, and others; social-bonding with family.
Those of us still working are in many cases doing so from home — some with the added complication of kids. And then there’s the drain on our bank accounts. All of which make the community of open-source and freeware software development more important than ever.
To help you get through the current trials and tribulations, here’s a compendium of utilities and apps, for both adults and kids, that might make your stay-at-home experience a bit easier.
Here we go …
Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.16.0 (2020-04-27).
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Open source rushes in where Microsoft fears to tread
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 or LibreOffice?
Tough choice, and MS Office compatibility continues to be problematic, especially with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.
See Neil McAllister’s InfoWorld Applications blog.