X86-64 (all operating systems), IA-32, ARMel, ARMhf, ARM64, MIPS, MIPSel, PowerPC, ppc64le, S390x, VLIW So, I'd like say to Mr.Unofficial: Android and iOS, ChromeOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Haiku, Solaris (v. Cutting and pasting from one to the other is also done with ease. They aren't as good as Microsoft, but I just transferred them from MS to LibreOffice (Shhh!). There's only one negative I've found so far and that's their templates. But, I just can't say enough good things about this program. However, the MS thesaurus is more comprehensive than LibreOffice. For instance, I've always used the thesaurus feature in MS Word, but it doesn't replace the word with the new choice, but LibreOffice does. Every feature is there as far as I can tell and some of them are even better.

I'm especially looking forward to playing around with Base Database, since I was an MS Access database developer for nearly 14 years.

So far, I've just used Calc Spreadsheet extensively and have played around with the others. It has Writer Document (MS Word), Calc Spreadsheet (MS Excel), Impress Presentation (MS PowerPoint), Draw Drawing (MS?), Math Formula (MS?), Base Database (MS Access). It was forked in 2010 from, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice.' I tried to find out who owned The Document Foundation, but came up with nothing so far. Wikipedia describes it thus: 'LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation.

I needed to find an alternative to Excel and found one alternative that was Chinese (which shall remain nameless) so I didn't go that route and found LibreOffice. Those of you who follow my posts know how much I LOVE free things and this product is one of the most amazing free products I've ever seen! I'm so excited to report a free and extraordinary alternative to Microsoft I can't hardly stand it.

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