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Old 09-09-2025, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
I use LibreOffice too. I stopped using MS Office in the early 2000s and switched to OpenOffice, but LibreOffice had some database functionality that I couldn't get with OpenOffice so I switched to that instead when it became available for beta-testing. LibreOffice has replaced OpenOffice at this point, it's the successor.

LibreOffice is open source, as secure as your computer (however secure you've set your computer to be), has around the same functionality as MS Office Professional (not home version, it's much more advanced than that), and will translate MS document, spreadsheet, and database extensions just fine. It's freeware, though they do accept donations. LibreOffice is hosted by the Document Foundation, which took over after Oracle retired OpenOffice. These are all derived from the original version founded by Star Division in 1985, and the public version released by Sun Microsystems in the late 1990s.
Good information but 99.9% of us are retired and a simple Word and Excel program is what 99.9% of us need
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