LibreOffice

I actually don't even know much about the difference between OpenOffice and libre office. LOL. I changed to libre because I heard people saying it's better!

 

Well, essentially LibO is a fork of OpenOffice. The Document Foundation have definitely forked it if you ask me LOL.

It isn't. Take my advice & change back.

 

LibO is getting worse with every release.
Problems are not fixed.
i.e. try Calc, mark some cells and try to to put a frame around.
Use different line strength and be surprised...

Back to OOo, actually to this update from 3.3
http://teamopenoffice.org/en/free-download.html?id=48:downloadmatrix-en&catid=14:pages
This one just works

 

A border ? If so works fine for me, I just tried. Do you have a link to the bug report ?

 

I'll say ...

Oh, I've had enough surprises with LibO to last at least one lifetime.

That link looks interesting, thanks.

 

As in post #207 below

Sorry, was not aware of it.
Removed link and my Board-PW to prevent further mishaps...

 

... This forum has an upload facility.

Edit: I trimmed the quote and my post.

 

This is what I get with LibreOffice 3.5.3.2 on Ubuntu 12.04

 

I'm waiting for other 3 guys popping out and saying it IS better...

 

You may be waiting a long time ....

 

I thought I had posted it but anyway ...
"Berlin, May 30, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.4, the fifth version of the free office suite’s 3.5 family."
And "up to 100% performance gains when opening large files (depending on operating system, hardware configuration and file contents)."
And "We still need some progress before we can tackle big features such as incremental updates."
All over here: http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/05/30/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-3-5-4/

 

I'm giving Apache 3.41 Open Office a try on my netbook.

 

Does it really need visual C+ to run I was sad when i saw that popup

 

Hi JR, a couple of months ago I started using Libre Office, at the time I installed portable version 2.5.5. Can you or someone else tell me whats the proper way of upgrading portables like Libre?. Should I just run the installer for the new version in order to keep settings or should I remove/delete the Libre folder that is in my computer and run the installer for the new version. Libre is the first portable that I try so I am not sure how is the best way to upgrade this kind of programs.

Thanks in advance

Bo

 

Thanks, JR. A over the top installation did what I needed.

Bo

 

Amazing development speed!

LibreOffice 4 beta1 out!

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

Release notes (plenty of bug fixes over 3.6):

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.0.0/Beta1

 

I have been using LibreOffice with no problems, still haven't found any bugs (but then I don't use many advanced features I guess). I haven't used OpenOffice much so I can't say if it's better, but LibreOffice sure seems to have more people involved and to be more actively developed.