对用户来说，另一个重要的特性是能够导入别人发来的或者在档案中找到的 Word 和 Excel 文档。虽然所有的办公套装可以过滤这些格式，但是只有 OpenOffice.org 中的功能才足以应对日常应用。

OpenOffice.org contributors have set up a foundation (The Document Foundation) to foster project development. The idea had been discussed for some time, but the actual trigger was Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. The new ownership made the future of OpenOffice under Oracle uncertain. Since Oracle declined to join the foundation, the developers had to give up on the OpenOffice.org name. The software is now known as Libre Office. After a period of relative stagnation on the OpenOffice.org front, Oracle decided to migrate the code and associated rights to the Apache Software Foundation, and OpenOffice is now an Apache project.

Libre Office and Calligra Suite are, respectively, available in the libreoffice and calligra Debian packages. There is no more package for GNOME Office (it was gnome-office). Language-specific packs for Libre Office are distributed in separate packages: libreoffice-l10n-* and libreoffice-help-* most notably; some features such as spelling dictionaries, hyphenation patterns and thesauri are in separate packages, such as myspell-*/hunspell-*, hyphen-* and mythes-*. Note that Calligra Suite used to be called KOffice.