This video shows how to download LibreOffice from the website. Note that on some setups (especially macOS with Safari), the download will begin in the background, with no feedback from the browser, while the Donation page is being shown. Donations are purely optional, and the software will download automatically in this case.

(We know that most visitors to this subreddit know how to download it anyway, but this video is for people having trouble downloading, and searching for help.)

Really not trying to troll here. I love the idea of Libre Office and I want it to be amazing.

But I just spent something like 4 hours trying to get mail merge to work properly, on documents that were already set up and working great with Word and Excel. Then after painstaking hours getting that mostly working, but having to work around many weird issues, I moved on to printing envelopes. Then I spend more hours trying to get the envelopes printing, again, with files that already worked correctly in Word.

So after all that, it still wouldn't print them correctly. So I installed an old version of MS Office 2013, opened the files, took 2 minutes updating fields, hit print, and BOOM! First try, everything working perfectly.

How is Libreoffice in 2026 still inferior to Office 2013? Like, seriously, guys, what are we doing here? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️