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LibreOffice Portable

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Key Details of LibreOffice Portable

  • Unleash creativity, streamline document production, and enhance data processing with feature-rich office suite
  • Last updated on 10/09/20
  • There has been 1 update within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 1 flag on VirusTotal badge_icon

Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Nov 9, 2011

Here's something interesting: an entire office productivity suite that can run from a USB drive. It's LibreOffice Portable, a portable-ized version of The Document Foundation's free open-source suite. It's compatible with most other productivity suites and tools, including Word, WordPerfect, and Lotus, and packs the tools you need, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation maker, drawing tool, and database.

At 412 MB, LibreOffice Portable is a substantial package, but who cares? With multigigabyte USB drives and memory cards, storage isn't an issue. The installer offered an experimental option to exclude Multilanguage support, which saves 150 MB, but we chose the full installation. The program runs on any Windows PC from 98 to 7, which is a lot of machines. Opening the program's folder, we found portable versions of LibreOffice Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Writer, as well as an HTML-based Help file and data folders. Interestingly, these tools won't run from a directory containing spaces, and we had to change our folder from "Portable Apps" to "PortableApps." Once we'd done that, all the tools opened normally. We certainly have no complaints about LibreOffice, which many users have found to be a good performer and a viable alternative to expensive suites.

By installing the jPortable portable Java runtime environment, users can add features such as document creation wizards to LibreOffice Portable. LibreOffice has a lot to recommend it on its own, like LibreOffice Math; some well-known bundles have nothing to compare to it. Being able to take it all with you sets LibreOffice Portable apart from many similar tools. Since this portable version was created by PortableApps, it's reliable and highly recommended.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 7.0.1

  • Implemented a padded numbering in Writer's lists.
  • Bookmarks and Fields can now be protected to prevent accidental changes to them.
  • Improved rotated text handling in Writer's table rows with automatic height.
  • Implemented support for semi-transparent text in Writer.
  • Bookmarks can now be displayed in-line in the text, controlled by Standard Toolbar.
  • Empty input fields were completely invisible and now they are highlighted with grey background.
  • Writer's Navigator improvements.
  • Improved usage of quotation marks and apostrophe in several languages.
  • Accessibility improvements.
  • Performance improvements.

General

Release October 9, 2020
Date Added October 9, 2020
Version 7.0.1

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Additional Requirements None

Popularity

Total Downloads 16,523
Downloads Last Week 3
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Developer's Description

LibreOffice Portable is a full-featured portable version of LibreOffice for Windows - including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database - packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go. Additional functionality including the Base database and document creation wizards is enabled by installing the jPortable portable Java runtime environment. LibreOffice Portable is compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications.

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