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I am not currently using LibreOffice but it is a good option unless you are demanding 100% compatibility with Microsoft Office.
It is a fork from another Open Source project; OpenOffice. OpenOffice itself originated from StarOffice which Sun Microsystems owned and opened up source code as OpenOffice. After Oracle bought Sun, some of the original developers forked the project to create LibreOffice presumably due to conflict with Oracle's interests.
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It is a fork from another Open Source project; OpenOffice. OpenOffice itself originated from StarOffice which Sun Microsystems owned and opened up source code as OpenOffice. After Oracle bought Sun, some of the original developers forked the project to create LibreOffice presumably due to conflict with Oracle's interests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice
Now Maurice, I am surprised you are using it. It is definitely anti-capitalist.
to get stock quotes in LibreCalc you can do this
In LibreOffice Calc select Insert > Link to External Data.
put the url from yahoo in
e.g. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?FAIRX
choose
html table 1 in the data ranges and the nav date and change will appear in the table.
you can play around with the different range options to see what you want.
option 2
you could also do a macro that reads the results from this and parses it into the cells you want.
http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=OAKBX&f=l1p2c1nd1
option3
load this extension which I have not tried
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/getStockPrice