Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is LibreOffice, the amazing free office suit (document editor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, etc).

I know that I've included this in previous #FreeSoftwareAdvent toots, but I use LibreOffice, particularly Writer, every day.

Better still, this one isn't just for Linux users, so if you are thinking about moving away from your Microsoft or Apple office suite, you can give LibreOffice a try, for free, alongside whatever you use currently, and give it a good go before you made a decision.

#LibreOffice

Schleswig-Holstein reports €15M yearly savings by replacing Microsoft 365 with LibreOffice across most government workplaces 💶

About 80% of offices have migrated, with a €9M one-time investment planned for 2026 to finish the shift and strengthen open-source tools 🧩

@libreoffice

🔗 itsfoss.com/news/german-state-…

#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Security #Government #EU #Data #Sovereignty #IT #PublicSector #Digital #Microsoft #Office #Software #Tech #Cloud #FOSS #Germany #German #LibreOffice

Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source

Schleswig-Holstein's migration to LibreOffice reaches 80% completion, with a one-time €9 million investment on cards for 2026.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)}

I work in education & I use & recommend #LibreOffice to my students:

No licence fees (great for students on a tight budget),

Forward & backward compatibility with files (so you don't lose access to your own & others' work),

UX that just lets you get on with work/study (no pop-ups, ads, nag-ware),

Really useful plugins, e.g. Zotero connector,

& just a pleasure to use! 🤓

I decided not to buy a new PC this #blackfriday due to overpriced #DDR5 #DRAM - thanks AI bros for scalping all the modules, and memory manufacturers for all the (past) cartels. Instead, I chose to #donate to the following #opensource projects, which I use and I am grateful for, and provide clear instructions for donating on their website or in their READMEs, allow one-time donations, and do not require GitHub (Sponsors) account:

#Codeberg
#CoMaps
#Python
#KeePassXC
#LibreOffice
#Papirus

Ok so hey #SelfHosting

I want a #SelfHosted web-type Office Suite ala Google Sheets/Docs and I don't want it to be part of some gigantic resource-chewing albatross like #NextCloud

I would like to do all my Word Processing and Spreadsheeting and so forth through a web interface, which is served from my #Debian server (docker is fine) and saves the documents as normal files in a defined directory.

Does such a thing exist? I do NOT need feature-rich, I do not need it to save MSOffice docs that I can send to a printing shop with all bugs intact, I just want to stop losing shit to hard drive wipes, which I'm sorry but nuking my hard drive is a lifestyle choice at this point and I don't care what you think about it.

I have had the thought that maybe #LibreOffice has some sort of plugin or something which could store files in an Object Storage type thingy that I could self-host instead, cause I've been planning to get some sort of bucket online since forever...

Hat jemand eine Ahnung, warum in #LibreOffice Calc meine .ods Tabelle (keine Formatierung, keine Formeln, unter 200 Datensätze, 47 KB) beim Speichern als .csv plötzlich absurde 18,5 MB(!) groß wird? Und wie ich das behebe?
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Does anyone know why my LibreOffice Calc table (no formatting, no calculations, less than 200 data sets, 47 KB) suddenly blows up to the absurd size of 18.5 MB(!) when I save it as a .csv? And how I can fix this?

@libreoffice

LibreOffice has never once insulted my intelligence by unhelpfully popping up to ask if I want help writing a document.

It just sits there, silently awaiting my input. #LibreOffice

I use #LibreOffice because it is cross platform, doesn't need an account to log in, and is very stable.
Several times in the past I have used it to open Microsoft Word documents that were "corrupted" and Word couldn't open them itself, but LibreOffice Writer could!

It also supports an amazing number of file formats, and I have used to amend PDF files without needing an expensive copy of Adobe Acrobat to do simple changes.

There's none of that AI rubbish or annoying prompts trying to get you to upgrade to pointless newer versions.

❤️

I use LibreOffice because I don't want to make Bill Gates any richer.
It's also much easier to use. I love the clean, comprehensive user interface.
Last but not least, interoperability is a huge advantage compared to Microsoft Office.

#libreoffice #microsoftoffice #billgates

Making a simple form in LibreOffice Base to do the equivalent of a minimal Google Form, but local instead of sending the data to Google.

Here's where I'm stuck: How do I rig up a button that saves the current record *and* starts a new one? Do I have to write a macro for this?

#LibreOffice #OpenOffice

# "Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer"

I was asked recently about how I get on using LibreOffice for document-related legal work, and I promised to write down some thoughts.

The short answer is that I use a mix of LibreOffice and other FOSS tools, and I’m very positive about it, with no particular concerns.

If you have questions, please do ask!

neilzone.co.uk/2025/11/using-l…

#LibreOffice #Linux #FOSS #lawfedi #vim #git #Markdown

Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer

^{neilzone.co.uk}

It looks like #libreoffice #impress does not react to the forward and back buttons on my mouse at all. Would be very handy to be able to use that as a presenter though. Is there any way I can set this up easily? (And maybe a bug report to make it happen by default?)

@libreoffice is that broken just for me or a missing feature in general?

#libreofficeImpress

Ouch. I was really happy to discover LibreOffice Impress Remote app for iOS - but the last update was in 2014 and it doesn't run on current iOS :(

Not reflected in the current docs it seems, ping @libreoffice

Any iOS developers with spare time wanting to get it up to speed? :)

libreoffice.org/download/impre…

#LibreOffice

So I'm using LibreOffice 25.8.2.2 on Fedora Workstation 43 GNOME 49.
For some privacy reasons I'll not be able to attach the entire PDF. However, I can show the page 15 that I was trying to open using LibreOffice Draw in image form.

It contains a combination of Bengali & English language and numerals.

EDIT : This previous issue of mine is still not fixed yet -> mastodon.social/@javalps/11534…

When can I expect the new version?

#libreoffice #linux #libreofficedraw #bengali #fedora #gnome

JavAlps

2025-10-10 06:25:25

Hey 👋. Unfortunately even after latest update "version 25.8.2.2", this is issue is still not fixed yet 😔.

Could you please do something ?

#libreoffice #linux

Okay LibreOffice Draw, what are you doing ?

@libreoffice
#linux #libreoffice #libreofficedraw

@libreoffice Do you know if odfdom-java is maintained? It has a bunch of outdated dependencies, but there seems to be at least some activity in the source repository.

There is also something odd with the versioning, where there is a 1.0.0-beta from 2019, but the latest release is from 2023 is 0.12.0. This causes dependency check tools to be somewhat confused.

Or is there perhaps an alternative library I should be using instead to connect to a running instance of Libreoffice?

#libreoffice

@systeemkabouter@maljaars.net @libreoffice Same here - thanks a lot for this great piece of software!

#oss #libreoffice #opendocumentfoundation #odf

Independent fromme fromme this or intially, a good start for institutions still hanging in MS365 or so can start with LibreOffice free file formats, so that there is an overall interoperability in data exchange.

Thats mainly replacements for Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

#LibreOffice #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware