This book aims to be one of resources for people who want to go deep into and get more knowledge in term of LibreOffice Writer. It titled “Getting Closer With LibreOffice Writer” which we dedicate for All Indonesian people and all human race. LibreOffice is a free software as office software (office suite) which developed from OpenOffice by The Document Foundation organization and available for GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac.

As an office software, LibreOffice has word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation programs by the name of Writer, Calc, and Impress. The native document format of the three programs is ODT, ODS, and ODP respectively. By default, LibreOffice supports ISO standard document format, that is OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard (and also supports Microsoft OOXML document formats).

When mentioning about functionality, LibreOffice is equal to Microsoft Office software (which are only available for Windows and Mac). LibreOffice is the most popular office software which becomes built-in program in many GNU/Linux distributions.