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Mar 02 2021
LibreOffice 7.0 Getting Started and Impress Guides
Two more volumes of LO 7.0 user guides were published in January: Getting Started Guide and Impress Guide. They are available in free PDF downloads and in low-cost print editions. See this page for links.
Mar 02 2021
LibreOffice 7.1 Community released
On 3 February, The Document Foundation announced the release of LibreOffice 7.1 Community, the volunteer-supported version of the office suite. The Community label emphasises the fact that the software is not targeted at enterprises, and not optimised for their support needs. Blog post with more information. For enterprise-class deployments, TDF has strongly recommended the LibreOffice …
Nov 21 2020
Help for people still using Apache OpenOffice
Do you know someone who is still using Apache OpenOffice? Have they recently tried to open a .odt, .ods or .odp file and received this error message? “This document was created by a newer version of OpenOffice. It may contain features not supported by your current version.” The notice (pictured) that pops up in Apache …
Nov 21 2020
LibreOffice 6.4 and 7.0 User Guides
I am way behind updating this blog, including mentioning the LibreOffice 6.4 user guides that have been published in 2020. These include Getting Started Guide, Writer Guide, Base Guide, Calc Guide, Draw Guide, and Math Guide. Two volumes of the v7.x series of books have been published recently: Math Guide and Calc Guide. You can …
Nov 21 2020
LibreOffice 7.0
LibreOffice 7.0 was announced on 5 August 2020. Since then three minor releases have appeared. Significant new features include support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3; better performance; and improved compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files. For details, see the blog post linked above. LibreOffice produced a visual timeline of derivatives from OpenOffice.org, as shown …