Hi David, I use both Open Office (OO) and Libre Office (LO) on my Mac. I have a preference for LO because I write a lot of VB macros and LO has a slightly nicer development environment for them (or at least it used to). Also, LO has the ability to edit .pdf files, although it's a bit clunky. First off, I can tell you that OO (and LO) are both actively supported. You can download new versions of OO (free) from their official website: download.openoffice.org. You are correct that both OO and LO are pretty much interchangeable, but have slight differences in the UI and some functions. If using VB macros, there are some functions that exist in one product but not the other. They can both create and update word docs and spreadsheets created by the other product. I've found some bugs in LO that also exist in OO, so they are somewhat compatible in that regard, also! You don't need to uninstall LO to make the document icons refer to OO. Just open them from within OO and they should all revert to using OO to open them in the future. Regards, Leon
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:33 PM David Maurer <dps...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > LibreOffice provides no Support or email address so I'm trying this email > address to ask you guys a question. > > I've had OpenOffice on my computer for many years. > > Around May 10, 2020 I was looking at an OpenOffice word document after > losing computer access and internet access for two years, due to financial > problems. > > I noticed that no message popped on like before re "update available", so > I started web searching. > > Some websites were basically claiming that OpenOffice couldn't support > itself any longer and recommending LbreOffice, so I downloaded it - it > appears to be almost exactly the same as OpenOffice. > > I've got lots of documents on my computer I made over the years with > OpenOffice. Whenever I look at one now it comes on the screen, but I see a > LibreOffice logo. (I've only used the word processing portion of > OpenOffice). > > So my question is - should I delete/uninstall OpenOffice on my computer, > since Libre Office seems to read all the files with no problem? > > Again, I'm only reaching out to you all since LibreOffice provides no > Support or email address (understandable if they're open source) - so I'm > sorry if Open Office went to it's demise, and if anybody is out there > reading this I appreciate you answering my question. > > Thanks, > > David > >
