When you’re searching for a free office suite, you’re likely to come across two names: OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Deciding between them isn’t always simple. What you need to know is that…
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LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice, ONLYOFFICE and the free alternatives to Microsoft 365: what to install, how to set it up and how to rescue your work.
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Losing an unsaved LibreOffice document can be devastating, but don't despair – there are multiple ways to recover your work. When LibreOffice crashes, the program typically displays a…
2004–05 community pages
Where office suites began
Pages kept from the years when this address served the OpenOffice.org Southern Africa community.
OpenOffice.org is both a product and project. The product is a cross-platform, open source office productivity suite, whilst the project is a…
OpenOffice.org is made available under two combined licences, the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public Licence) and the SISSL (Sun Industry Standards Source…
South and Southern Africa presents some rather interesting and specific issues regarding the distribution of OpenOffice.org, primarily related to…
