OpenOffice for Mac
Free and open-source office suite.
Free
In English
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OpenOffice overview
OpenOffice is an Open Source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Writer - Free Word Processor for Mac
OpenOffice is an open-sourced productivity suite. It offers many essential desktop tools such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and a drawing program. The app is free and is a great way to get access to similar features as Microsoft Office but without having to pay for it.
What’s new in version 4.1.15
Security
- CVE-2012-5639: Loading internal / external resources without warning
- CVE-2022-43680: "Use after free" fixed in libexpat
- CVE-2023-1183: Arbitrary file write in Apache OpenOffice Base
- CVE-2023-47804: Macro URL arbitrary script execution
Improvements/Enhancements
- Writer: Set firstline auto indent to 2 characters for Chinese language
Bug Fixes
- Basic: Error in help text for function "len"
- Writer: Dialog "Bullets & Numbering: The tooltip for the first numbering type is shown as "Number %NUMBERINGSAMPLE"
- Writer: MS Word import - CJK numbering ordered list fallback to Arabic numerals
- Calc: Function wizard - Spelling error for function "PROB"
- Calc: Cannot save document as ODS (AOO builds using non-Latin alphabets, due to changes of transliteration rules at runtime)
- Calc: Displacement problem with related formulas when moving cells
- Math: Do not remove outer braces
- Math: Existing command text is repeated when formula is inserted
- General: Some glyphs are not replaced by GSUB table from OpenType font
- Basic: Image control - Wrong picture in Help
- Code: Possible access to unintended variable in "openoffice/main/sfx2/source/doc/sfxbasemodel.cxx" line 940
- Code: Remove extra files from source package (clog, config.out)
Full changelog available here.
OpenOffice for Mac
Free
In English
Version 4.1.15
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Apr 6 2022
Version: 4.1.11
Here's a couple deal-breakers against using OpenOffice, at least its current version (4.1.11):
• Though OpenOffice's Microsoft Word emulator can open .docx files, and you can edit them just fine, when it comes time to save your changes, you can't save the file in .docx format, since Microsoft has a copyright on the format--instead, OpenOffice can save files as .doc, but that format doesn't save some of the newer Microsoft Word formatting options you can choose for .docx files, but also even some simple formatting options, like the font, font size, etc. get changed when OpenOffice saves a .docx file as .doc--for instance, Palatino gets changed to Times New Roman, 10 point; Helvetica remains Helvetica, but it gets changed to 10 point; and who knows what else. This problem is at least partly a flaw specific to OpenOffice, because if you open the same .docx file in Microsoft Word, and save it as .doc format, the new file won't have any of these undesired font changes. And, even worse, if you save the document in OpenOffice's format (.odt), Word can't open the file.
• If you try to launch even the latest version (4.1.11) of Apache OpenOffice under macOS Big Sur (11), and maybe even Catalina (10.15), macOS will display an alert saying "OpenOffice.app cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". You can still open it by going into macOS's Security & Privacy prefpane immediately after trying to launch it, where there will be a button labeled "Open anyway", but this bogus--why isn't this developer verified with Apple yet? The download page for Apache OpenOffice (https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html) has a button labeled "Important hints for OS X", but when you click on it, the only thing it says about an OS X version is "Coming soon". This has been its status since at least Oct 5 2021 when Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 was released, half a year ago.
Jun 14 2021
Version: 4.1.10
Crashes everytime I click on "Check Update" under the "Help" dropdown. Went to the Community support site and the people there told me how their's work. It was super helpful...
Nov 12 2020
Version: 4.1.8
There is a movement to close the OpenOffice project due to poor support and few updates from Oracle, the project's sponsor. Preferable is the LibreOffice project, which branched off OpenOffice many years ago and provides the most successful and progressive alternative.
Nov 11 2020
Version: 4.1.8
LibreOffice user here; Any compelling reasons to use OpenOffice over LibreOffice in 2020? It seems to me that LibreOffice is very actively developed and way ahead of OpenOffice, including for security issues.
