LibreOffice

[Stinkerbell]

So, my licenses for MS Word are all used up, and I'm not paying $149.99 for a one computer copy. I downloaded LibreOffice and so far, so fabulous! It opens all my Word, Excel, and Adobe files, and has the same features as Word. Oh, and it's FREE!

[Squid]

I've been using Open Office for free.  I have MS Word, Excel, etc., on my office computer but the others have Open Office.  I'm going to look into Libre.  Thanks.

[Stinkerbell]

I've been using Open Office for free.  I have MS Word, Excel, etc., on my office computer but the others have Open Office.  I'm going to look into Libre.  Thanks.

You're welcome! I did some looking around and it was one of the highest rated for what you get for free.

[Mayhem]

I've never heard of LibreOffice, but I know Open Office is extremely popular.

I'll have to check it out and see how they compare.

[Stinkerbell]

I've never heard of LibreOffice, but I know Open Office is extremely popular.

I'll have to check it out and see how they compare.

So far, so good... again. I'm really enjoying it. I need to find things that I used all the time in MSO, like the Select All link and the Find link for finding words in the document. I'll keep looking.

ETA: I found FIND. It's a magnifying glass on the upper toolbar, but I don't see Select All yet. According to posters if you Ctrl+A it only selects all in a single text box.

[snap20]

Been using LibreOffice for years. When OpenOffice changed 'owners' I dropped it. LibreOffice is updated more frequently now too. Both are pretty similar though.

[Stinkerbell]

Been using LibreOffice for years. When OpenOffice changed 'owners' I dropped it. LibreOffice is updated more frequently now too. Both are pretty similar though.

Do you know, is there a way to select all and have it grab ALL text boxes?

[Stinkerbell]

Been using LibreOffice for years. When OpenOffice changed 'owners' I dropped it. LibreOffice is updated more frequently now too. Both are pretty similar though.

By the way, I was reading reviews of both Open Office and LibreOffice and Libre is an offshoot of OpenOffice, did you know that? Also, MANY people stated they left Open Office when they changed "owners".  I think it was the original team who left OO and started LO, if I remember right.

[snap20]

Do you know, is there a way to select all and have it grab ALL text boxes?

No, I don't know. I don't use it all that often and have never had to do what you are trying to do (sorry for the late reply).

You are right that LO was an offshoot. I changed when OO was bought by the new company. When it happened, there was talk of charging for certain "upgrades". Looks like that was false talk though...but I still wouldn't go back to OO now.

[gigi]

 sorry Mayhem, I did it again.............. could you please delete this?

[gigi]

Just installed it and so far so good.  I had a trial Microsoft Word of some sort and when it expired everything I had saved I was unable to open in ANYTHING.  I couldn't even get far enough into the document to do a copy and past or a save as or an open with........................ so I lost a few documents.................. maybe I should have come here for help LOL

[Stinkerbell]

Just installed it and so far so good.  I had a trial Microsoft Word of some sort and when it expired everything I had saved I was unable to open in ANYTHING.  I couldn't even get far enough into the document to do a copy and past or a save as or an open with........................ so I lost a few documents.................. maybe I should have come here for help LOL

LibreOffice has opened all my MS documents, and allowed me to save them in their format.

[gigi]

Yes stinker, it works fine so far