Microsoft office is there free download or something similar.

macman

If the hyperlinks are there and showing, then what makes you think that they won't work properly when opened in Word by the recipient?

Emuchops

Thanks Macman,
is that the reason then? Because I haven't got Word they won't open, but the Word possessing recipient will be able to open them? Sounds logical. I didn't think of that. I suppose being able to put the links in when I was composing the document in Libreoffice made me think that I would be able to open them as well.

IceColdRum

[quote=[Deleted User];50246841]OK so it's a separate product although based on the openoffice architecture. Presumably, documents (such as spreadsheets ) I already created in OO would be accessible with libreoffice - is that right?[/QUOTE]

Short:
Yes.

Long
The reason LibreOffice exists is because Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems which was the original owner of the brand name and project. Citing concerns that they [Oracle] might start messing with OpenOffice and make it closed source or charge for it etc. developers from OOo created "The document Foundation" and forked OOo and renamed it Libreoffice tempoarily in the hopes that Oracle would join them as a backer and donate the OOo branding and copyrights (no such luck) but basically LibreOffice is where it's at;) there have been a ton of behind the scenes improvements and bug fixes and eventually they plan to overhaul the dated UI

debitcardmayhem

@emuchops
My wordpad has the ability to open links, Windows 7. However the recipient can always copy the link and paste it into the browser

OneYorkshireLass

- deleted - found what I was looking for.