Your private, free office suite

LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice.
It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organisation.

New: LibreOffice 25.2

Better change tracking • More versatile comments • Theme improvements

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LibreOffice Conference 2024

October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg. We had workshops, discussions and lots of fun!

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LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software. Development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community.

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Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 – 1992… When did you join Star Division, and what did you work on? I […]

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LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy

Marco Marega writes: Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group. It’s inside a local fair, part of which is dedicated to technology, makers, electronics and […]

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Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 – 1992… When did you join Star Division, and what did you work on? I […]

read more »

LibreOffice at the Linux Arena in Pordenone, Italy

Marco Marega writes: Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group. It’s inside a local fair, part of which is dedicated to technology, makers, electronics and […]

read more »