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OpenOffice for Mac

Free and open-source office suite.

Free
In English
Version 4.1.15
3.7
Based on 98 user rates

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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5.0
Ease of use
5.0
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5.0
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
5.0

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3.7

(224 Reviews of OpenOffice)

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RogerKatz
RogerKatz
Dec 24 2023
4.1.13
0.0
Dec 24 2023
0.0
Version: 4.1.13
The current version is 4.1.15
John-Sawyer-CJS
John-Sawyer-CJS
Apr 6 2022
4.1.11
0.0
Apr 6 2022
0.0
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.
Saneman1
Saneman1
Jun 14 2021
4.1.10
3.0
Jun 14 2021
3.0
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...
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Nov 12 2020
4.1.8
1.0
Nov 12 2020
1.0
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.
Simon3
Simon3
Nov 11 2020
4.1.8
0.0
Nov 11 2020
0.0
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.
vkww
vkww
Jul 25 2024
4.1.15
1.0
Jul 25 2024
1.0
Version: 4.1.15
didifri
didifri
Jun 15 2022
4.1.12
5.0
Jun 15 2022
5.0
Version: 4.1.12
The_Blinded
The_Blinded
May 9 2022
4.1.12
2.0
May 9 2022
2.0
Version: 4.1.12
Saneman1
Saneman1
Jun 14 2021
4.1.10
3.0
Jun 14 2021
3.0
Version: 4.1.10
marab_p
marab_p
May 19 2021
4.1.10
4.0
May 19 2021
4.0
Version: 4.1.10
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Nov 12 2020
1.0
Nov 12 2020
1.0
Version: null
DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Mar 20 2020
5.0
Mar 20 2020
5.0
Version: null
Stuverod
Stuverod
Mar 14 2020
4.0
Mar 14 2020
4.0
Version: null
subburr
subburr
Jan 11 2020
5.0
Jan 11 2020
5.0
Version: null
peterstriblmaccom8927
peterstriblmaccom8927
Nov 27 2018
0.5
Nov 27 2018
0.5
Version: null
Bipou
Bipou
Aug 14 2018
3.0
Aug 14 2018
3.0
Version: null
bradley-dichter
bradley-dichter
Dec 28 2017
4.0
Dec 28 2017
4.0
Version: null
Uncoy
Uncoy
Dec 12 2016
5.0
Dec 12 2016
5.0
Version: null
mj-brinovec
mj-brinovec
Oct 24 2016
2.5
Oct 24 2016
2.5
Version: null
rosebud6642
rosebud6642
Sep 8 2016
0.5
Sep 8 2016
0.5
Version: null
Calvin8931
Calvin8931
Aug 25 2016
4.5
Aug 25 2016
4.5
Version: null
sjbutton89
sjbutton89
Jul 28 2016
3.0
Jul 28 2016
3.0
Version: null
WetNet
WetNet
May 1 2016
5.0
May 1 2016
5.0
Version: null
Freenergy
Freenergy
Dec 29 2015
4.5
Dec 29 2015
4.5
Version: null
Nontroppo
Nontroppo
Oct 30 2015
2.0
Oct 30 2015
2.0
Version: null
fostersjack47
fostersjack47
Sep 16 2015
3.5
Sep 16 2015
3.5
Version: null
Arthur-Battram
Arthur-Battram
Aug 9 2015
3.0
Aug 9 2015
3.0
Version: null
mickeymike
mickeymike
Jul 27 2015
3.5
Jul 27 2015
3.5
Version: null
jipeca
jipeca
Jul 2 2015
4.0
Jul 2 2015
4.0
Version: null
Lawrence-in-Victoria-BC
Apr 25 2015
4.5
Version: null
Liselotte
Liselotte
Sep 26 2014
3.0
Sep 26 2014
3.0
Version: null
freeve
freeve
Sep 5 2014
3.5
Sep 5 2014
3.5
Version: null
Sarab-h
Sarab-h
Aug 24 2014
5.0
Aug 24 2014
5.0
Version: null
Albert-it
Albert-it
Aug 13 2014
4.5
Aug 13 2014
4.5
Version: null
Johny2016
Johny2016
May 22 2014
3.5
May 22 2014
3.5
Version: null
Quiiick
Quiiick
Apr 30 2014
4.0
Apr 30 2014
4.0
Version: null
Sleek
Sleek
Apr 29 2014
3.5
Apr 29 2014
3.5
Version: null
anonymous-gecko-5416
anonymous-gecko-5416
Jul 28 2013
4.0
Jul 28 2013
4.0
Version: null
Exegete77
Exegete77
Jul 24 2013
5.0
Jul 24 2013
5.0
Version: null
BillHicks
BillHicks
Sep 12 2012
3.5
Sep 12 2012
3.5
Version: null
THEE:LEE
THEE:LEE
Sep 10 2012
4.0
Sep 10 2012
4.0
Version: null
Oysterhaven
Oysterhaven
Sep 9 2012
1.5
Sep 9 2012
1.5
Version: null
Robert-Dobkin
Robert-Dobkin
Sep 4 2012
4.0
Sep 4 2012
4.0
Version: null
Znort
Znort
Sep 2 2012
4.0
Sep 2 2012
4.0
Version: null
Melis
Melis
Sep 2 2012
5.0
Sep 2 2012
5.0
Version: null