So that your preferences are installed in the new version. In addition to backing up all the OpenOffice files I have created of course. I have read the complete announcement above, and don't see any advice in there. Can anyone point me to that info. While I prefer OpenOffice to LibreOffice, some people prefer LibreOffice. Both suites use the Open Document Format for saving files. LibreOffice, to my understanding, has more compatibility with Microsoft Office than OpenOffice does. As to the backing up that I think you are referring libreoffice vs openoffice, that would be your user profile, which you can access by using the Windows Start Menu, and typing %appdata% in the Programs and Files search box, which should have the cursor already in it when you hit the Windows key on your keyboard, which brings up the Start Menu. Volunteer Posts: 7577 Joined: Wed May 26, 2010 7:55 am Location: Budapest, Hungary LibreOffice, to my understanding, has more compatibility with Microsoft Office than OpenOffice does. But I have and use both suits. I have experienced regular hangups using Libre Office on my Windows 7 laptop; a real deal breaker. Though I noticed that Open Office which works fine for me in Windows seems to have abandoned the import filters that used to allow it to open my old Word Perfect 5. Tough problem, as I like to live in the past sometimes. My solution has been to dual boot the computer with an Ubuntu install in a separate partition. Libre Office is native in Ubuntu and part of the package. It seems to work fine there. In my case, I was loading old documents, not saving back into them. It's just that there are enough of those chestnuts around that I could want to be able to do that again from time to time, without having to go out and find everything and convert it en-masse. An that became the deal breaker. An that became the deal breaker. Do you paste somewhere in the window of another application. Do you see the column when pasting to some other application, let's say a simple text editor. Always the first one, last one, a specific one. Hi Villeroy, the database is a customized libreoffice vs openoffice application with Siebel as its backend. When I pasted the copied block into a text editor the blank first column does not paste while a blank columns C, F, G etc registers as a tab. They are both free, you can try each at no cost. For most purposes it won't matter which you use. Yes, I got the gist of the religious war. If their other writings are as inaccurate as their reporting of that discussion note then God help all who read their writings and believe them. Thank you very much for that info. You win some and lose libreoffice vs openoffice. These are used in medical clinical offices and each contain over 1. I have to say that I am mystified as to the number problems I had. Loading forms with over 1,000 record lists is much slower, and even closing one form and opening another is much slower. I also experienced total freezes several times. There were other issues, but at this point it was unusable for me. Unfortunatelly there are incompatibility issues between the two opensource office suites today, because the speed of the development is basicly different. Note: the 'Fresh' versions of the LibreOffice are not for daily works. If you found a bug in the 5. I have generally been using OpenOffice in the past and have been trying LibreOffice 5. Libre Office more like 30 secs. During which time it hangs with 'no responding' for a bit. So my conclusion is that I am sticking with Open Office. I recently tried out LibreOffice Writer but it was hopelessly unreliable for my purposes and I dropped it like a hot brick. If Calc is similar to Writer then: If you want to live on the bleeding edge, and if you value new and more function over stability, and if you are only working on small spreadsheets, then LibreOffice might be a good choice for you.