LibreOffice is Growing! Coming to Android & iOS!

Ever heard of LibreOffice?  If not, it is a free and open-source office suite that rivals the Microsoft Office Suite.  It has many comparable components and makes a great office solution for those who lack the pocket money to purchase MS Office, or those who just like using open-source software (I fall into both categories lol).  LibreOffice originated as a fork of the OpenOffice.org project and is simply outstanding.  Not to mention it is cross platform meaning you can use it on Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems (it comes default with Ubuntu 11.04 and up)!

Just the other day the development team working on LibreOffice announced that they are aiming for a mobile client for both Android and iOS tablet devices (with phone support rolling out later); as well as offering an online counterpart to their offline software (probably something similar to Google Docs).  This is great news for the LibreOffice project because with expansion we see that the project is building steam among it's users (with a growing community as well).  Look for it heading to your mobile device late 2012 (maybe even early 2013).

If you haven't checked into LibreOffice yet, I would highly recommend doing so.  If you do check it out you may want to watch my previous video about how to set the default file formats to Microsoft Office compatible formats after installing to ensure everyone can open your documents.

Download: http://www.libreoffice.org/
My LibreOffice Video Post:
http://www.techiesmarts.com/2011/09/help-ubuntu-making-libreoffice-play.html

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Help Ubuntu!: Making LibreOffice Play Nice with Microsoft Office!

Our latest video in the continuation of the 'Help Ubuntu!' video series has just gone live!  Ubuntu 11.04 includes LibreOffice as the default office suite.  LibreOffice is a great software package that offers a lot that can contend with other retail offerings such as Microsoft's Office.  And it's free and open source.

LibreOffice is forked from the Open Office project.  When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice eventually became handed over to the Apache Foundation.  In the meantime, a handful of developers from the Open Office development team decided it was a great idea to fork Open Office into what we now know as LibreOffice.

One of the big things a lot of people complain about when using LibreOffice (and OpenOffice for that matter) is that by default any files made within the program become saved as 'ODF' files.  And these files don't translate well (if at all) towards Windows software (namely, Microsoft's Office suite).  So, how do we fix it?

Easy, watch this video and follow along to get your LibreOffice files to play nice with Microsoft's Office file formats!









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