If you are one of the people that happens to be running a bleeding-edge 'alpha 1' version of Ubuntu Linux on your main desktop machine (and who isn't?), you may have noticed a particular change in ...

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite for Linux, Mac, and Windows computers. Now the software, which is one of the most popular alternatives to Microsoft Office, is on its way to Android.

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 ...

More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least ...

It was just about a year ago that I was writing about the launch of LibreOffice, and now here we are today, marking the free productivity software suite’s first year. A lot has happened along the way ...

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 ...

In 2010, Open Office, an open-source freeware alternative to Microsoft Office, got into some conflict with one of its partners at that time – Oracle. People who were behind the development of Open ...

C ollabora Online is a suite of web apps for editing documents, based on LibreOffice and intended to compete with Google Docs. Now, Collabora is coming full circle and releasing new desktop ...

Who needs to pay for Microsoft Office when you can get LibreOffice 6.0 for free? OK, if you are tied at the hip to Microsoft Office I can see why you'll continue to pay year after year for your Office ...

So, the question is, then, what are Styles, and how can we use them to better format documents in LibreOffice on Windows PC? OK, so from our understanding, Styles are a bunch of formats that users can ...

Want to work with Office documents without using Office? LibreOffice 4.3 is the latest version of the best-known open-source equivalent, promising improved file format compatibility (especially for ...