Good time of the day, Sharon.
This is weird. Can You share exactly what was the removal command?
You wrote:
> Yesterday I removed the meta-package of LibreOffice, and then
> installed the source package of LibreOffice 3.6.5.2. I now find that
> it wasn't fully removed as I'm still able to open and use documents
> with the old programme.
>
> So, how do I *completely* remove all of the old LibreOffice
> without removing all or most of Gnome, which I still want to have
> around, please?
Sthu.