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LibreOffice (/ ˈ l iː b r ə /) [11] is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice.
LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source word processor and desktop publishing 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 many similar features, and file format compatibility.
LibreOffice Calc is the spreadsheet component of the LibreOffice software package. [5] [6]After forking from OpenOffice.org in 2010, LibreOffice Calc underwent a massive re-work of external reference handling to fix many defects in formula calculations involving external references, and to boost data caching performance, especially when referencing large data ranges.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking uses a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to suppress this display to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor.
After acquiring Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle Corporation continued developing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, which it renamed Oracle Open Office.In September 2010, the majority [17] [18] of outside OpenOffice.org developers left the project [19] [20] due to concerns over Sun's, and then Oracle's, management of the project, [21] [22] to form The Document Foundation (TDF).
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite.Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed [10] [11] [12]) and Collabora Online, with Apache OpenOffice [13] being considered mostly dormant since at least 2015.
A word processor (WP) [1] [2] is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word processors are word processor programs running on general purpose computers.
Most word-processing software, such as Microsoft Word and LibreOffice, have built-in spelling and grammar checkers; for instructions, see Wikipedia:Spellchecking § Using word-processor software. Please be careful when using these and other tools; they are not infallible.