LibreOffice
LibreOffice 4.2.1.1
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LibreOffice is an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing tool) compatible with other major office suites. The Document Foundation is coordinating development and maintenance of this OpenOffice.org fork.

Many different language versions are available here.
What's New
Version 4.2.1.1:
  • This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 4.2.1 Release Candidate 1, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
  • Mac version doesn't bundle the mediawiki extension
  • Some menu entries have changed or added. If you miss something, that may be due to the use of customised menu settings from your previous LibreOffice installation.
  • This version still contains a few annoying bugs, as listed here.
Version 4.2.1.1:
  • This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 4.2.1 Release Candidate 1, so you don't need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
  • Mac version doesn't bundle the mediawiki extension
  • Some menu entries have changed or added. If you miss something, that may be due to the use of customised menu settings from your previous LibreOffice more...
Requirements
  • Intel, 64-bit processor
  • OS X 10.8 or later





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LibreOffice User Discussion (Write a Review)
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B. Jefferson Le Blanc commented on 20 Feb 2014
This version, 4.2.1.1, is suddenly compatible only with OS X 10.8 and above. If you don't customarily look at the compatibility info when downloading an update, this may take you by surprise if you're running in OS X 10.7.5 or 10.6.8. Some developers are courteous enough to mention such a significant change in the change notes. Not here.
[Version 4.2.1.1]

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Derekcurrie replied on 20 Feb 2014
Thankfully, when you open up the .dmg file, you'll see the traditional 'NO!'
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Syed Ali replied on 22 Feb 2014
I agree, this is really annoying. Sadly I'm still running 10.7 which is the max I can go on my white iMac. I wonder what's the reason behind cutting off 10.7, which is only 3 years old.
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Derekcurrie replied on 22 Feb 2014
A couple responses:

1) My previous reply in this thread was cut off from what was originally posted. Huh? After the 'NO!' was the emoji 'no' graphic font character. After that, I explained that on 10.7.5 that symbol appears on top of the icon for the new version of LibreOffice, warning you that it was not compatible with the running version of OS X.

2) If I recall correctly, LibreOffice cut off OS X 10.6.8 with version 4 and threatened to do the same to 10.7.x. They relented and supported 10.7.5 until now. I don't understand why. I seriously doubt LibreOffice is using Apple APIs anywhere in their code, so huh?

Typically this comes down to someone on the development team deciding to turn off older OS support in the Xcode compiler, turning the last supported version effectively into abandonware.
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Billybob152 reviewed on 15 Feb 2014
Works as well as I need it to. Also an added bonus Libre Office opens and imports AppleWorks and, I am told, ClarisWorks files.
[Version 4.2.4]


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Tsehov reviewed on 31 Jan 2014
This new version (4.2.4) is remarkably faster than earlier versions.
[Version 4.2.4]


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wanarek reviewed on 30 Jan 2014
Finally added a nice and modern icons. A set is called Sifr (you have to manually change in the preferences).
[Version 4.2.4]


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Sirantd reviewed on 30 Jan 2014
It's not 4.2.4. It's 4.2.0.4, please correct it.
[Version 4.2.4]

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Rayj replied on 30 Jan 2014
LibreOffice itself is confused: in "About LibreOffice" it calls itself 4.2.0.4, but in Finder it's 4.2.4.
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EarlaFern reviewed on 02 Jan 2014
Able to keep the original formatting is good. Compared to Microsoft office Word, it impressed me a lot. Except sometimes new updates worked not so well for slowing down loads. Hope this can be solved later.
[Version 4.1.4.2]


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B1o9b5o2q reviewed on 28 Dec 2013
If you have ClarisWorks/AppleWorks files that you think you cannot open, this is the program you need. It allows you to recover them with formatting virtually intact and save them in MS Word format. I had been using another program to extract the text but was not able to keep the formatting. This one does the trick!
[Version 4.1.4.2]


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Monkeyjunkey commented on 14 Dec 2013
Requirements need to be updated. As of LO 4.1 OS X 10.6 is required.

See e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70247#c6
[Version 4.1.3.2]

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MacUpdate-Ishaq replied on 14 Dec 2013
Good catch – we've fixed that.
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Iliketrash commented on 06 Sep 2013
Inline math looks absolutely horrible, with tons of extra white space on both the left and right sides of the math. It's stuff like this that make this casual user think of this software as half-baked.
[Version 4.1.1.2]


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Jfm commented on 02 Sep 2013
I had received old WriteNow files. Unable to open them, or documents that could not properly be used... Then Ii discovered LibreOffice. I downloaded it, made an attempt to open my WN documents. And... WONDERFUL! It would open them and keep all the formating!

I am very impressed and congratulate LibreOffice team for such a fine product. I had never considered it before as a word processor, but I will now!
[Version 4.1.1.2]


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Bjoernowitsch had trouble on 29 Jan 2013
No, it is not the 4.0.0.1 version I use and want to comment, but the 3.6.4.3 one. Today, I wanted to start the hyphenation, but for the first time, the software hangs, and it will not finish the process. This is new to me, so I wonder if this is something that happens to it when the developer finds it outdated. I cannot use the version 4, because my system still runs on a G5 processor, not Intel, which is required for the 4.0.0.1 version.
[Version 4.0.0.1]


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Bjoernowitsch had trouble on 05 Apr 2012
As I downloaded the new release of LibreOffice, I found that the spell checker and hyphenation do not work. In the previous version of LibreOffice, 3.5.1, I was unable to set the file location for my documents freely, i.e. select a folder somwhere outside of the system disk. This was corrected in the 3.5.2, but instead, I find the language module, at least in Swedish, disabled.
[Version 3.5.2]

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Bjoernowitsch replied on 05 Apr 2012
In case I cannot remove my previous comment, I can now report that the most recent version of LibreOffice, the 3.5.2, works as it should. The spell checker now works in Swedish as well, and misspelled words are also underlined in red.
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Diogo Cocharro had trouble on 26 May 2011
I support very much everything that as open source philosophy, and this product is a very good achievement, but as small bug (also the same in openoffice) that for me is very annoying, and it seems that wasn't noticed yet, when you turn on "invisibles" this changes the shape and distance of the characters.
I didn't move yet to libreOffice because of this, "I can not trust on what I'm looking".
Thanks
[Version 3.4beta4]



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Monkeyjunkey rated on 28 Feb 2014

[Version 4.2.1.1]



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LeonBe;mont2070 rated on 23 Feb 2014

[Version 4.2.1.1]



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Junk-App rated on 19 Feb 2014

[Version 4.2.4]



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Monkeyjunkey rated on 17 Feb 2014

[Version 4.2.4]




Léonux rated on 13 Feb 2014

[Version 4.2.4]



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Quiiick rated on 31 Jan 2014

[Version 4.2.4]



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Nevt rated on 30 Jan 2014

[Version 4.2.4]




BrianTrouba4678 rated on 24 Jan 2014

[Version 4.1.4.2]



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Quiiick rated on 24 Jan 2014

[Version 4.1.4.2]



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Monkeyjunkey rated on 07 Jan 2014

[Version 4.1.4.2]


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Date:20 Feb 2014
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LibreOffice is an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing tool) compatible with other major office suites. The Document Foundation is coordinating development and maintenance of this OpenOffice.org fork.

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