LibreOffice Writer

LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source word processor and desktop publishing component of the LibreOffice suite 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 Writer is released under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

As with the entire LibreOffice suite, Writer can be used across a variety of platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. There are community builds for many other platforms. Ecosystem partner Collabora uses LibreOffice upstream code and provides apps for Android, iOS, iPadOS and ChromeOS. LibreOffice Online is an online office suite which includes the applications Writer, Calc and Impress and provides an upstream for projects such as commercial Collabora Online.

Features Writer is capable of opening and saving to a number of formats, including OpenDocument (ODT is its default format), Microsoft Word's DOC, DOCX, RTF and XHTML. A spelling and grammar checker (Hunspell)

Built-in drawing tools

Built-in form building tools Built-in calculation functions Built-in equation editor Export in PDF format, generate hybrid PDF (a standard PDF with attached source ODF file) and create fillable PDF form The ability to import and edit PDF files. Ability to edit HTML, XHTML files visually without using code with WYSIWYG support Export in HTML, XHTML, XML formats Export in EPUB ebook format Contents, index, bibliography Document signing, password and public-key (GPG) encryption Change tracking during revisions, document comparison (view changes between two files) Database integration, including a bibliography database MailMerge Scriptable and Remote Controllable via the UNO API OpenType stylistic sets and character variants of fonts are not selectable from the menus, but can be specified manually in the font window. For example, fontname:ss06&cv03 will set the font to stylistic set 6 and chose character variant 3. This is based on the same syntax for Graphite font feature.

Supported file formats File formatExtensionRead/WriteNotesAbiWordABW, ZABWFrom 4.2AppleWorks (word processing)CWKFrom 4.1Formerly called ClarisWorksApple PagesPAGESFrom 5.0AportisDoc (Palm)PDB Requires JavaBroadBand eBookLRF DocBookXML FictionBookFB2From 4.2Hangul WP 97HWP Newer "5.x" documents are not supportedHTMLHTM, HTML Ichitaro 8/9/10/11JTD, JTT Lotus Word ProLWP MacWrite Pro 1.5MW, MCWFrom 4.1Microsoft Pocket WordPSW Requires JavaMicrosoft RTFRTF Microsoft Word 2003 XML

(WordprocessingML)XML Microsoft Word 4/5/6.0/95DOC, DOT , writing up to 3.6Microsoft Word 97–2003DOC, DOT Microsoft Word 2007-nowDOCX, DOTX, DOCM,

DOTM Microsoft Works (word processing)WPS, WPT Microsoft Works for Mac formats since 4.1Microsoft WriteWRIFrom 5.1OpenDocument

(word processing)ODT, FODT, OTT, OpenOffice.org XML

(word processing)SXW, STW Plain textTXT Various encodings supportedSoftware602 (T602)602, TXT StarOffice StarWriter 3/4/5SDW, SGL, VORDropped in 4.0 then added back in 5.3,

up to 3.6Unified Office Format

(word processing)UOT WordPerfectWPD WordPerfect Suite 2000/Office 1.0WPS WriteNow 4.0WN, NX^DFrom 4.1

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