LibreOffice 4+
Open Source Office Suite
The Document Foundation
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- $8.99
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Description
Powerful privacy-respecting office suite, based on OpenOffice, compatible with Microsoft® Office. It has been in development since 2010, and is used by tens of millions of people around the world. It's backed by The Document Foundation, a non-profit organisation.
Included: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing).
LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard, the Open Document Format (ODF). With LibreOffice, you have maximum control over your data and content – and you can export your work in many different formats including PDF.
LibreOffice is made by a worldwide community, who can help you:
* Do you have a question about LibreOffice? See https://ask.libreoffice.org
* Want to report a problem? Let our QA community know: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org
Please note that the version provided in the App Store cannot support Java functionality, such as Java-based extensions.
What’s New
Version 25.2.4
LibreOffice 25.2.4 contains the following highlights:
== User Interface / Application Theming ==
* The application theme can be customized independent of the system/desktop-environment's Light/Dark theme. Customization options are available in LibreOffice ▸ Preferences… ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Appearance tab (Sahil Gautam, allotropia) tdf#163620
The preferred way of customizing appearance (i.e. if you want dark menus but still a light document background) is via theme extension. To install a theme extension, click on the more themes button next to the theme drop-down in LibreOffice Themes section. Once installed, the theme should appear in the schemes list.
== Writer ==
* Added Group and Mono controls to the Asian Phonetic Guide dialog (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#107184 tdf#156543
* The Page Number Wizard now offers an option to fit the numbers into existing margins in order to avoid repagination. (Justin Luth, Collabora) tdf#161646
* The dialog and Sidebar deck for managing tracked changes now have sorting options. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#161811
* It is now possible to delete all content of a content type (excluding headings) via the Navigator. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#156926
* Resizing the area containing comments shows a visual guide. (Rafael Lima) tdf#162855
* The Hanging Indent command now also works, if the targeted paragraph has no existing indent. (Kira Tubo) tdf#156374
* Hovering the mouse over a heading in the Navigator displays a tooltip showing the word and character count of the content associated with it. (Jim Raykowski) tdf#63967
* Warning and error levels in the Accessibility Sidebar deck were improved, and an option was added to ignore warnings. (Balázs Varga, allotropia) tdf#157233 tdf#164048
* Support was added for inline headings, which are commonly used in legal documents. (László Németh) tdf#131728
* Improved ignoring of the paragraph margin at the top of pages (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
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== Calc ==
* A statusbar icon will indicate when Data ▸ Calculate ▸ AutoCalculate is switched off. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#127937
* A 'Handle Duplicate Records' dialog to select/remove duplicate records in Calc. Place the active cell on some data or select some range, then Data ▸ Duplicates... (Sahil Gautam) tdf#85976
* Both the Function Wizard dialog and Functions Sidebar deck received improvements to searching and user experience. (Ahmed Hamed) tdf#161534 tdf#161296 tdf#161543
* Solver models can now be saved into spreadsheets and Solver is able to provide a sensitivity analysis report. (Rafael Lima) tdf#160062 tdf#157519
* An expert option WarnActiveSheet was added to control the warning about the active sheet being the only sheet saved or exported to some formats (like CSV). Suppress the message by setting it to false. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#33714
* A "Summary below data" option was added to the Subtotals dialog. (Balázs Varga, allotropia) tdf#162262
* New sheet protection options related to Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts and AutoFilters were added. tdf#160404 tdf#160535 tdf#160536
=== Performance ===
* The speed of font previews in Calc was greatly improved. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#144151
* Saving ODS files with large merged ranges is now faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#161986
* Spreadsheets with lots of conditional formatting now open and save much faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#100894 tdf#163010
* Spreadsheets with lots of comments now save much faster. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#161846
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== Impress ==
* Per-paragraph semi-transparent shape text in Impress' SVG export (Miklos Vajna, Collabora)
* Automatic repeating of slides can now be activated in windowed mode. (Ariel Darshan) tdf#163858
* Soft edge and glow effects are now allowed in text frame objects (Balázs Varga, allotropia) tdf#135320
* many slight improvements to all Impress templates (Laurent Balland) tdf#162490
* Overflowing text in presenter notes is no longer cut off when printing (Tibor Nagy, allotropia) tdf#88226
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…and many more…
Ratings and Reviews
More than I thought
I am a very buzy person and I do not write reviews. However, this is an exception. To prove it, I am taking time out of my schedule to write this. A few year ago I purched LibreOffice as a backup to my MSOffice. It was never utilized till abour 2 weeks ago. For some reason my MSOffice stopped working. It was laptop based not 365 version. I tried for 3 days attempting to restore. MSOffice. Nothing worked. I cannot justify there subscription prices. Nor do I trust them. So, I was forced to start using LibreOffice. WOW! it is very mature. It got me out of a tough situation. I use it exclusively now. MSOffice was removed from my laptop. Never to be reinstalled. I use it in place of MSWord and Power Point. So far all of my created files work fine in LibreOffice. It even handles the drop down boxes that many of the Documents I use have.
Thank you and kudos to the LibreOffice Team!!!!!
So many issues. But love the privacy
My biggest complaint is that it doesn’t update to the current build available on the website. I seem to be several versions behind and I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the reason dictation doesn’t work well. I spend a lot of time dictating into. The app when I'm done it disappears looks like it has been completely erased even though I'm watching it appear on the screen. I hit return it disappears. I hit another button and everything reappears, but you have to be very careful so then you just have to do a whole bunch of backpedaling to find what you just dictated. I pay for this app and find it frustrating because I am working with a disability. This app is making everything 10 times harder. I would also love the ability to customize my toolbar to get rid of the things. I don't find useful and putting things in that I use on a regular basis like the increase text size, where everything is uniformly increased in size and not choosing a font size because then that changes all of my headers and subheader sizes and it’s a real pain. I cannot find in the app a place to check for updates. The web says I can go into help and then look for updates, but that is not an option. It's not there.
Works on my MacBook Pro, a mess on my iMac
Installed this first on my main machine, a 2017 iMac with Monterrey OS and 64Gb of RAM. There, the app is a complete mess. It doesn't respond to MagicMouse scrolling; double-clicking a word does not select it; it takes three attempts every time to drag across a phrase or sentence to select it; and what limited scrolling I can do by clicking in the scrollbar often results in visually split pages right down the middle, where the left half of the screen displays (for inatnce) page 2 and the right half hangs on page 1. A miserable experience, so I was going to leave a one-star review. Then II found that LibreOffice works fine on my MacBooks Pros from 2018 and 2020. Not sure what's going ohere n but especially for a paid app I expect excellent compatibility, not just with SOME Macs.
Developer Response ,
If you still experience issues on the older device with the latest macOS and LibreOffice versions (quite a bit has changed between 7.5 and 24.2), could you please open a bug report on https://bugs.documentfoundation.org so developers can look into it? Much appreciated!
App Privacy
The developer, The Document Foundation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- The Document Foundation
- Size
- 585.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © The Document Foundation
- Price
- $8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.