
Opening it (and printing) in LibreOffice was a no-go. No, it doesn’t, or didn’t.I had a Word document that was a master-document with about 50 sub-document chapters, which were indexed. I haven’t tried the latest version, but it is a lot more than looking a bit different on screen, but prints the same.

And you can download LibreOffice 7.2 Community for free from the LibreOffice website. You can learn more about the new features on YouTube. “In addition, LibreOffice 7.2 Community offers numerous performance improvements in handling large files, opening certain DOCX and XLSX files, managing font caching, and opening presentations and drawings that contain large images.”Īs noted, LibreOffice 7.2 offers “a significant number of improvements to interoperability with legacy DOC files, and DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX documents.” LibreOffice still defaults to OpenDocument format documents, which it described as “a true open standard format.” It also features performance improvements, in particular with using large files, and it is now available natively for Apple Silicon-based Macs.

“LibreOffice 7.2 Community provides a large number of interoperability improvements with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats,” the announcement post reads. Among the changes is a significant number of improvements related to interoperability proprietary Microsoft DOC, and DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX documents.

The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 7.2, the latest version of its free and open-source office productivity suite.
