In this article we compare the two Office suites to figure out which one wins. I have opened libreoffice in safe mode and one by one done all the options given there, but still the same problem.For a while it looked like OpenOffice was doomed, with Apache announcing that their development team was dwindling and unable to keep up with updates addressing everything from UI improvements to security vulnerabilities.īut after record-low download numbers in 2017, OpenOffice seems to have bounced back a bit, with a big update triggering people to take an interest again. config/libreoffice/4/user/*), but no improvement.

I have removed the config files again (rm -r. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times, but though they are installed, they are utterly unavailable.

So I deleted the libreoffice config files in my home directory and in /etc, then uninstalled and reinstalled.Īnd now I’m in this situation where Writer, Base, and Calc are all installed, but they will not open nor are their file formats recognized by libreoffice. So I uninstalled and reinstalled libreoffice. History of problem: I tried to change a default keystroke shortcut in libreoffice (from within the program itself, not knowing which file it would be found in), and it corrupted the keystroke shortcuts. I have used libreoffice for many years, almost daily, since it forked from openoffice, and have many thousands of files created during that time. The same if I try to open a file from the libreoffice window, it shows the same filter screen. If I click on an odt file created previously in Writer, it opens the libreoffice window but not the file, showing instead a filter screen asking me to select a file format, but odt is not offered as an option, only formats that will open in Impress and Draw. Only Impress, Draw, and Math Formula are active and available. I can open libreoffice, but not writer, calc, or base, which options are greyed out on the libreoffice open screen. 7.3.7.2 on an updated Ubuntu variant (Tuxedo OS), Tuxedo laptop.

Open office and libreoffice