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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.[4][5]
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![]() LibreOffice Writer 7.2.4 (released in December 2021, running on Linux and KDE Plasma 5 with the Breeze icon set) | |
Developer(s) | The Document Foundation |
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Stable release | |
Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows |
Predecessor | OpenOffice.org Writer |
Type | Word processor |
License | MPLv2.0 (secondary license GPL, LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0)[3] |
Website | www |
LibreOffice Writer is released under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.[3]
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.[6][7] 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.
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will set the font to stylistic set 6 and chose character variant 3. This is based on the same syntax for Graphite font feature.File format | Extension | Read/Write | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
AbiWord | ABW, ZABW | From 4.2 | |
AppleWorks (word
processing) |
CWK | From 4.1 | Formerly called ClarisWorks |
Apple Pages | PAGES | From 5.0 | |
AportisDoc (Palm) | PDB | Yes | Requires Java |
BroadBand eBook | LRF | Yes | |
DocBook | XML | Yes | |
FictionBook | FB2 | From 4.2 | |
Hangul WP 97 | HWP | Yes | Newer "5.x" documents are not supported[citation needed] |
HTML | HTM, HTML | Yes | |
Ichitaro 8/9/10/11 | JTD, JTT | Yes | |
Lotus Word Pro | LWP | Yes | |
MacWrite Pro 1.5 | MW, MCW | From 4.1 | |
Microsoft Pocket Word | PSW | Yes | Requires Java |
Microsoft RTF | RTF | Yes | |
Microsoft Word 2003 XML
(WordprocessingML) |
XML | Yes | |
Microsoft Word 4/5/6.0/95 | DOC, DOT | Yes, writing up to 3.6 | |
Microsoft Word 97–2003 | DOC, DOT | Yes | |
Microsoft Word 2007-now | DOCX, DOTX, DOCM,
DOTM |
Yes | |
Microsoft Works
(word processing) |
WPS, WPT | Yes | Microsoft Works for Mac formats since 4.1 |
Microsoft Write | WRI | From 5.1 | |
OpenDocument
(word processing) |
ODT, FODT, OTT, | Yes | |
OpenOffice.org XML
(word processing) |
SXW, STW | Yes | |
Plain text | TXT | Yes | Various encodings supported |
Software602 (T602) | 602, TXT | Yes | |
StarOffice StarWriter 3/4/5 | SDW, SGL, VOR | Dropped in 4.0 then
added back in 5.3, up to 3.6[clarification needed] |
|
Unified Office Format
(word processing) |
UOT | Yes | |
WordPerfect | WPD | Yes | |
WordPerfect Suite
2000/Office 1.0 |
WPS | Yes | |
WriteNow 4.0 | WN, NX^D | From 4.1 |
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