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LibreOffice Writer

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Development status
  
Active

Type
  
Word processor

LibreOffice Writer

Developer(s)
  
The Document Foundation

Stable release
  
"Fresh" version: 5.3.1 (16 March 2017; 1 day ago (2017-03-16)) [±] "Still" version: 5.2.6 (9 March 2017; 8 days ago (2017-03-09)) [±]

Operating system
  
Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows

License
  
MPLv2.0 (secondary license GPL, LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0)

LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source word processor component of the LibreOffice software package and is a fork of OpenOffice.org Writer. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some identical features.

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LibreOffice Writer is released under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

As with the entire LibreOffice suite, Writer can be used across a variety of platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Features

Writer is capable of opening and saving documents in a number of formats, including the Open Document Format 1.2 Extended (ODT is its default format), Microsoft Word's DOC, DOCX, RTF and XHTML.

Writer provides a number of features, such as the inclusion of a word completion mechanism for predictive writing and the ability to export to PDF format.

Features include:

  • Templates and styles
  • A spelling and grammar checker (Hunspell)
  • Word and character count
  • Support for autofilter per sheet: It is now possible to set autofilter per sheet without manually creating named database ranges prior to setting autofilter
  • Page-layout methods, including frames, columns, and tables
  • Embedding or linking of graphics, spreadsheets, and other objects
  • Built-in drawing tools
  • Java text rendering replaced by native text rendering which greatly improves readability
  • The preexisting Java dialogs have been replaced with simpler native dialog boxes.
  • Support Color and line styles for the columns and footnote separator lines. This is improving the compatibility of LibreOffice with ODF
  • Master documents—to group a collection of documents into a single document
  • Change tracking during revisions
  • The ability to import and edit PDF files.
  • Significantly improved file compatibility when dealing with Microsoft Word as compared to OpenOffice
  • Database integration, including a bibliography database
  • Export to PDF, including bookmarks
  • MailMerge
  • Equation editor (LibreOffice Math)
  • Scriptable and Remote Controllable via the UNO API
  • Indexing
  • AutoCorrect
  • AutoComplete
  • Selection of non-consecutive items in Add Mode

    • Release history

    Versions for LibreOffice Writer include the following:

    References

    LibreOffice Writer Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA