I just finished reading the 2022 edition of LibreOffice Expert. In yesterday’s post I wrote that “Everything comes somewhere.“
This is definitely true of LibreOffice. It was designed as an alternative to Microsoft Office and it’s gone through multiple incarnations over the years: StarOffice, then OpenOffice, and now LibreOffice.
Because of that, it will in many ways resemble Microsoft Office, with occasional differences. In places the Microsoft Office had definite flaws, LibreOffice has been explicitly written to avoid those flaws. One of those flaws was the ability to apply multiple templates to MS Word documents, which often resulted in file corruption. To avoid that, LibreOffice Write does not allow the user to apply multiple templates to a file.
Overall, LibreOffice Expert is a very good magazine. I learned a lot about how to use LibreOffice. And I learned a lot about why LibreOffice is designed the way it is.