The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.6.3, the latest version of the leading free and open source office suite.
This maintenance release fixes some 90 bugs, including fixes for layout problems, overflowing margins, a regression in chart complex category placements and problems in importing and exporting ODF documents. Several problems that caused crashes when, for example, deleting the last cell in a table, importing tables from .docx files or following an incomplete print have likewise been corrected.
Versions of LibreOffice 3.6.3 for Linux, Windows and Mac platforms are available from the LibreOffice download page, as is the source code.
If anyone readers need convincing to try LibreOffice, do this simple test. How much lighter will getting an office suite leave your bank balance?
- LibreOffice = £0.00;
- cheapest single user version of MS Office 2010 from Amazon UK = £82.00 (figure correct at the time of publication. Ed.).
Furthermore, LibreOffice’s functionality can be enhanced by means of extensions, such as MultiSave (posts passim).