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@deedend They do all they can and have limited resources... Have you considered helping them? 😊

Meet the LibreOffice community at events around the world! 🌍 We were recently at InstallFest 2025 in Prague, for instance: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/14/insights-from-the-prague-installfest-2025-conference/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

@kerfuffle Glad you found a solution! Can you please report it to our QA community at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org so they can try to ensure that other users with similar setups aren't affected? Thanks 😊

In March we had two updates to #LibreOffice, while the development and QA communities worked to improve features and resolve issues. Learn more in their report: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/04/11/qa-dev-report-march-2025/ #foss #OpenSource

@badeightball Good idea 😊

@kerfuffle Hi! Hard to say, without any details (LibreOffice version, Windows version etc.) Try in Safe Mode, or if that doesn't work, try asking our community with details about your setup and someone should be able to help: https://ask.libreoffice.org

@danilasch What does "more modern" mean? That's a very vague and subjective expression 😉 Have you tried the tabbed user interface? If so and you still don't like it, have you considered helping our Design community volunteers to implement the changes you want?

Recognise the picture? This year's LibreOffice Conference 2025 will take place in Budapest! Thanks to our members for voting for the location: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/10/libreoffice-conference-2025-will-take-place-in-budapest/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

@jogi Hope you like it! And yes, it's definitely a good idea, as OpenOffice now has unfixed year-old security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security

@solarisfire What version of LibreOffice, on what operating system? In what format is the document?

@solarisfire That should definitely not be happening, of course. LibreOffice isn't perfect but there must be some issue there. Have you tried resetting your user profile? See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile#Resolving_corruption

@Still_Nimmy Hi! No, it's not possible. The majority of code and resources is shared between the different components in the suite, so breaking them into separate apps would lead to a lot of duplication.

@duncan_lithgow Email them (apache@apache.org) and ask them. Let us know what they say!

@loke Exactly. People should contact apache@apache.org and ask them why they keep distributing OpenOffice despite the security issues, and pretend to keep the project alive with meaningless Git commits that remove whitespaces. Try contacting them!

@staringatclouds People across the free and open source software world have been calling on Apache for years to finally close it down: https://rocket9labs.com/post/its-time-to-let-go-apache-software-foundation/ 😕

@Doctacosa Oh 😅 Please inform your company's IT staff about the risks of OpenOffice!

@spacepoodlelover It has multiple unfixed security issues, so it depends on your definition of "work". Maybe, but it puts you at risk...

@JamisonAlexander Glad you like it 😊

We still see people on social media recommending OpenOffice. Just be aware that it's no longer getting updates, and has multiple year-old unfixed security issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – To be safe, switch to one of the actively maintained successor projects (such as LibreOffice).

Don't lose control of your data! A few days ago, we celebrated Document Freedom Day – championing open standards and free software. Here's a talk we gave with the Nepalese LibreOffice community: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/02/video-document-freedom-day-with-the-nepalese-libreoffice-community/ #foss #OpenSource