Dear Sir: Our whole shop is built around Open Office and now LibreOffice. We supported OpenOffice by buying subscriptions from SUN. This is still a valuable product and needs to be supported. There are some things that LibreOffice dropped - such as the history function. My only guess is that it was a security issue. One of the most handy features. Larry Linder On Wednesday 13 June 2012 10:58 pm, Yasha Karant wrote: > Many of us depend upon OpenOffice to handle office suite documents, many > of which are generated through non-open-systems end users of the > proprietary Microsoft office suite. I need it for that purpose, but > also to handle legacy WordPerfect documents. > > I use the production versions from the supplier, not any SL6 port or > distro version. > > The Oracle OpenOffice production versions for EL6, both IA-32 and > X86-64, handled > WordPerfect. Now that OpenOffice is under Apache, that support has been > discontinued with the current Apache production version of OpenOffice. > However, I have verified that LibreOffice production version does still > support WordPerfect documents. This may be of use for those who also > have legacy documents. > > Yasha Karant