LibreOffice Productivity Suite

LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for GNU/Linux, Macintosh, and Windows, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.

Key Features

Installation

Reporting LibreOffice bugs in Ubuntu

Hints and Tips

Manual OpenDocument Repair

Read-Error.
Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 2,135632 (row,col).

cp example.odt example_original.odt

mkdir repair

unzip example.ods -d repair

gedit repair/content.xml

zip repair-example.odt repair/*

lowriter repair-example.odt

If one gets the following message:

The file 'repair-example.ods' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can try to repair the file.

The corruption could be the result of document manipulation or of structural document damage due to data transmission.

We recommend that you do not trust the content of the repaired document. Execution of macro is disabled for this document.

Should LibreOffice repair the file?

click Yes, and get a window noting:

The file '$(ARG1)' could not be repaired and therefore cannot be opened.

you may want to start over and try editing or deleting more or less.

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Further Reading


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LibreOffice (last edited 2022-04-03 19:47:44 by fitojb)