LibreOffice has long offered itself up as a free alternative to Microsoft Office, and today a major new version has been released. Apple secretly updates M1 Mac mini with 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Microsoft is rolling out an update today that brings native support for Apple's M1 chip to the Windows productivity suite. 'The apps getting the updates are Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote,' reports The Verge. 'Notably absent, however, is Teams.' From the report: The updates are makin.
Some Apache OpenOffice users are reporting that version 4.1.8 is crashing on Apple macOS 11.0 (aka “Big Sur” or 10.16) when opening OOXML documents – like .docx and .xlsx. The error message is:
OpenOffice quit unexpectedly
Here’s a video showing how it crashes (WebM version here):
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One solution is to install LibreOffice, a more actively developed successor project. (OpenOffice’s last major release – 4.1 – was back in 2014.)
LibreOffice has much better support for modern operating systems, and many other features too, such as OOXML export, an updated NotebookBar user interface, a cloud-based version and much more. This timeline shows the major releases:
LibreOffice 7.1 runs on macOS Big Sur, so download it here and carry on with your work. And there’s more to come: an optimised version of LibreOffice for Apple’s M1-based Macs is being developed, thanks to work from Collabora Productivity, a company in LibreOffice’s ecosystem. And more improvements for LibreOffice on macOS Big Sur are on the way – stay tuned!
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Just got a new M1 Mac Mini with Big Sur 11.1On my first attempt I was directed to sourceforge and downloaded this:
Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.8_MacOS_x86-64_install_en-US
Got this in a message when I tried to run it: 'OpenOffice' cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified
Tried again and noticed that perhaps I should have tried 4.0.1, so I downloaded this:
Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_MacOS_x86_install_en-US
Libreoffice M1 Mac
Microsoft Office On Apple M1
This time I got: 'OpenOffice' needs to be updatedLibreoffice Pour Mac M1
Libre Office Macos
Screenshots of messages attached.