![]() They renamed the proprietary StarOffice office suite to “Oracle Open Office,” as if they wanted to cause confusion, and then discontinued it. Most outside volunteers - including the contributors to Go-oo, who contributed a set of enhancements used by many Linux distributions - left the project and formed LibreOffice. ![]() LibreOffice was a fork of and is built on the original code base. Most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, switched their bundled office suite from to LibreOffice. In 2011, Oracle gave the trademarks and code to the Apache Software Foundation. The project known as OpenOffice today is actually Apache OpenOffice and is being developed under Apache’s umbrella under the Apache license. LibreOffice has been developing more quickly and releasing new versions more frequently, but the Apache OpenOffice project isn’t dead. Apache released the beta version of OpenOffice 4.1 in March, 2014. ![]() You can download LibreOffice or OpenOffice for free for Windows, Linux, or Mac. Both office suites include the same applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases. These two projects share the vast majority of their code. They have similar interfaces and features. Look at LibreOffice’s status bar at the bottom of the window and you’ll see a live-updating word count for the current document. On OpenOffice, you still have to select Tools > Word Count to view the word count at any given time - it won’t update and show itself automatically. LibreOffice also has support for font embedding in documents. This can be activated from File > Properties, under the Font tab. Embedding a font in a document ensures that document will look the same on any system, even if the computer doesn’t have the font installed. We could go on looking for more differences, but this really just feels like nitpicking. The vast majority of people will have trouble noticing the difference between LibreOffice and OpenOffice. They’re both free and open-source, so you can always download both to compare - you probably won’t notice too much of a difference. The sidebar above is an interesting example of where these projects are going. The sidebar in OpenOffice is an entirely new feature the Apache OpenOffice project has added to OpenOffice. ![]() On the other hand, the experimental sidebar in LibreOffice looks basically identical to OpenOffice’s sidebar. OpenOffice’s sidebar code was copied and incorporated into LibreOffice. The Apache OpenOffice project uses the Apache License, while the LibreOffice uses a dual LGPLv3 / MPL license. The practical result is LibreOffice can take OpenOffice’s code and incorporate it into LibreOffice - the licenses are compatible. Note that the sum of the table width, and the values in the Left and Right boxes, needs to equal the width of the text area.On the other hand, LibreOffice has some features - like font embedding - that don’t appear in OpenOffice. You can only change both values if you select Manual alignment and you can change the Left box value only when you select the From Left alignment. When the size of the table is less than the size of the text area, OOo will insert some values in the Left and Right boxes. In the Spacing section, use the Above and the Below boxes to modify the separation between the text and the table. Select Relative to see the width as percentage of the text area. Selecting an alignment option other than Automatic activates the Width field in the Properties section, where you can enter the desired size of the table.
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