What is the LibreOffice suite?

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms. LibreOffice has no licensing fees, is available in a large number of local languages and gives users the opportunity to participate in its development.

The suite is composed of six main modules:  Calc, Writer, Impress, Base, Math and Draw.  It is available in many different languages and it can be installed on all operating systems, including Mac, Linux and Microsoft.

Who uses the LibreOffice suite?

Tens of millions of business people have adopted the LibreOffice suite as their preferred tool.  These workers hail from many different types of organisations: 

  - governments and public services (such as the South African government);

• - the education sector (such as the Laval School Board);
• - associations;
• - small and medium-sized businesses (SMB).

How can I integrate the LibreOffice suite into my other applications?

Plug-ins are freely available for download from the Internet that can help integrate the LibreOffice solution into your current work environment.

How can I download the LibreOffice suite?

• Here is a link to version 3.3.4 of the English language edition of the suite for Linux, Mac and Windows: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/