How to update LibreOffice in Ubuntu 20.04?

In Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, for general use, how to update LibreOffice from the default version installed by Canonical?

Are there reasons to leave it as is? I regularly use Software Updater to install recommended updates, and wonder why LibreOffice is still on an older version.

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It is opinion-based, but having newer version of LibreOffice is IMHO good because of new features.

To install newer LibreOffice you have to use their official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # to get newest dependencies for sure

As the result you will get 7.1.6 (at time of writing) instead of default 6.4.7.

Note: reverting to default version is possible by sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice/ppa .

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