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LibreOffice 3.3: Hands-On With the Free Office Suite

The LibreOffice project came about late in 2010 when it became increasingly uncertain what Oracle’s intentions were for OpenOffice.org, which it acquired after purchasing Sun .

LibreOffice is overseen by the Document Foundation, which includes open source luminaries such as Red Hat , Ubuntu, and even Google. Because of these backers, LibreOffice is essentially the new kid on the block when it comes to cost-free office suites , and the LibreOffice folks have been busy putting together their first major release–version 3.3, which is now available for download at LibreOffice.org .

LibreOffice’s print dialog box has been overhauled compared to OpenOffice.org. (Click image for full view.) Two downloads are necessary: the installer for LibreOffice itself , and a “help pack” executable, which contains US English helpfiles. If the latter isn’t installed, clicking the Help menu takes you to the documentation section of the LibreOffice Web site.

Installation went fine on the Windows Vista and XP machines I use for testing. Rather rudely, LibreOffice unpacks its installation files to the same folder as the install .exe file, but doesn’t delete them afterward. This was a problem with Openoffice.org too and is easily fixed by a quick click and drag to the Trash, but it could be of concern to newbies.

Upon double-clicking the LibreOffice desktop icon in both machines, I received an error that Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required. I realized I’d avoided installing the dreaded Java bloat on either computer. However, I’d received no warning that it was necessary during installation, and the System Requirements page of the LibreOffice Website doesn’t mention it either.

Clicking OK cleared the error message, only for startup to continue and the error to appear again. After 10 or so attempts clearing the error message, I managed to get to the new document launcher, from where I was able to start the suite’s applications without a hitch. Starting each application subsequently was also error-free.

I might be wrong but it was only ever the Base database component of OpenOffice/LibreOffice that absolutely required Java to work, so I don’t know why I was seeing this error. Sure enough, although Base started up fine, saving a database caused the same JRE error to appear, and there was no way around it other than to quit the program.

Upon starting each application you’ll see the classic OpenOffice.org interface. Indeed, it’s very hard to see anything new and there arguably aren’t any major updates in this release. The list of new features seems to be of appeal only to programmers, or full of features that are not that useful. Many new features might be better categorized as bug fixes or refinements.

You can easily create title pages in Writer. (Click image for full view.) For example, Writer can now insert scalable vector graphics (SVG) images. You can edit SVG graphics in the Draw graphics editor too. SVG is liked by open source programmers because it’s an open standard but it sees little use in the real world outside of Web browsers.

Another programmer friendly feature is that Writer can now “load and save ODF documents in flat XML to make external XSLT processing easier.” I’ve no idea what that means. I suspect it’s to do with exporting documents to archiving systems. Calc now supports up to one million rows, again arguably useful only to people that use spreadsheets for serious data wrangling.

Of the less-than-useful new features, Writer now imports Lotus Word Pro files, and has improved WordPerfect support. In other words, you’re covered should you and your computer slip through a time warp to 1995. You can open Microsoft Works documents as well.

Of the kind of features companies like Microsoft would boast about, there’s only a handful that stand out. There’s a new dialog box for creating title pages in Writer, for example, and an improved thesaurus. Calc features “more familiar” key bindings, which means you can use your Excel keyboard shortcuts, and Calc can also utilize Excel A1 and R1C1 formula syntax. The presentations package, Impress, features a handful of new extensions, including a Presenter Console that makes it easier to manage presentations on a laptop connected to a projector. Across all programs, the print dialog box has been overhauled for ease of use.

But that’s about it. It’s very hard to find anything to write home about. Arguably the biggest additions to Microsoft Office in recent years have been OneNote, the fantastically useful note-taking application, and SharePoint Workspace, which allows collaborative working. Sadly, there’s just nothing like either in LibreOffice 3.3. It’s a release that would have been stunning in 2000, but is now slightly anachronistic and dull.

It’s buggy too, in the way that OpenOffice.org always was. I managed to run into an issue straight away in Writer. Zooming out to two-page view should have invoked the horizontal scrollbar, but it didn’t appear. This left me unable to navigate around single-page documents I subsequently created unless I adjusted the zoom settings so the page filled the screen. I couldn’t find how to manually activate the horizontal scroll bar.

However, the other applications appeared stable, and in the limited time I had to look over the software, I was able to do common tasks without hindrance.

Impress features a new presenter’s console add-on. (Click image for full view.) And this perhaps best characterizes the experience: LibreOffice is a reliable old jalopy. It has its quirks but it’s reliable for getting basic and even some sophisticated things done. For those who understand its limitations, it’s an utter bargain at zero dollars, just like OpenOffice.org was. However, those hoping that the new management at LibreOffice might inject some life into the project are in for a disappointment. There’s no sign of that here. It’s the same old OpenOffice.org, except with a handful of improvements and a new name.

The biggest disappointment is the lack of any cloud tie-in. How a major new release of any office software can lack this is a mystery. The rather pompous manifesto of the Document Foundation , the organization behind LibreOffice, makes absolutely no mention of the cloud.

For this reason alone I can’t recommend LibreOffice for business use over a product like Google Docs , which, while an order of magnitude less sophisticated, includes collaboration options that really can make a difference for smart businesses.

Keir Thomas has been writing about computing since the last century, and more recently has written several best-selling books. You can learn more about him at http://keirthomas.com and his Twitter feed is @keirthomas .

LibreOffice review

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This open source office software suite is truly exceptional, and new features are added all the time. It's amazingly flexible too, and totally free – even for commercial use.

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The appropriately-named LibreOffice is the suite of office software for anyone who is looking for a fully-featured office suite for free. Everyone needs a suite of office software for everyday tasks, but not everyone can afford $69 or more a month. Luckily, there are also lots of free alternatives that replicate almost all the features of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and company. 

So, while Microsoft Office is perhaps the best-known option, it’s best left for professionals, businesses, and users with more than enough money to spend on luxuries. That’s especially with LibreOffice providing a competing suite of office software that’s just as exceptional, versatile, and feature-rich at no cost to its users.

How does it manage to do this? LibreOffice is an offshoot of the OpenOffice project, and is developed by a huge team of enthusiastic coders who are lending their services without pay. This same team also delivers regular updates and new features to ensure it keeps pace with premium office software.

Just how exactly is LibreOffice keeping up with something as widely beloved and relied on as Microsoft Office. To start, it comes with six component programs that provide everything you need from an office suite:

  • Writer (word processing)
  • Calc (spreadsheets)
  • Impress (presentations)
  • Draw (vector graphics)
  • Math (mathematical formulae)
  • Base (databases)

LibreOffice is also compatible with all Microsoft Office file formats so even professionals hoping to cut costs can use it without having to worry about it affecting their business or the way they interact with clients. It’ll let you save and open many different formats, including Microsoft file types (including DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, and many more), which is ideal if you're collaborating with users of Microsoft Office, or if you've previously used Microsoft's suite but have decided to try LibreOffice.

That makes it not so much a free alternative to Microsoft Office, but an actual rival. One that makes it very hard to justify paying a lot of money for the competitor.

User experience

LibreOffice offers a choice of interface styles: a traditional system of icons and toolbars, and an optional NotebookBar (similar to the ribbon used in Microsoft Office since 2007). Both have their advantages; the NotebookBar will make switching from Microsoft Office more natural, while the old-school layout means everything is visible at a glance, and you can navigate easily using a keyboard rather than a mouse if you prefer.

Beyond that, there's little difference between Microsoft's productivity toolkit and LibreOffice. The open source suite lacks Office's built-in cloud storage option, but that's easily remedied by installing the Dropbox desktop software , which gives you instant access to your account as though it was a folder on your PC.

LibreOffice's selection of templates might seem a little limited compared to Microsoft's, but this is easily remedied by the huge collection of downloadable options available in the project's online repository . There are also plugins to add features like advanced grammar tools, extra language packs, improved accessibility options (such as export for braille embossers), and plugins for other programs like mind-mapping tool Freemind .

LibreOffice is truly remarkable. Give it a try and you might never pay for office software again.

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Create your first presentation using libreoffice impress.

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Beginner’s guide on how to create a simple presentation in LibreOffice Impress.

LibreOffice Impress is a free and open-source presentation program for Linux, Windows and Mac. It comes with lots of features and compatibility with Microsoft PowerPoint as well.

Here is a basic guide for creating a simple presentation using Impress.

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Create Your First Presentation

  • Open LibreOffice Impress.
  • If the template dialog opens, select a template you want. Otherwise, click Close.
  • You will be presented with the first slide with a default design – A title and content.
  • Modify your presentation slide as per your choice using the toolbar options, e.g. Changing font colour, background colour, adding text etc.
  • From the File menu, click Save As … Choose any file type you want. You can also choose the Microsoft PowerPoint file type *.ppt or *.pptx as well. You can also refer to the list of file formats supported on this page .
  • Save the file.

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Present and View Your Impress Presentation

  • If you want to present the Impress presentation, double-click on the saved file and open it via Impress.
  • To start the SlideShow, Press F5 Or click SlideShow > Start from First Slide from the menu.
  • If you want to start the presentation from any slide, go to the slide in Impress and press SHIFT+F5.

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ibreOffice Impress Slide show ==============================

It is Useless without LibreOffice installed. Runs only from the Edit page toolbar menu, can not run it independently from a file. ————————————————————————————

I am trying to build an Family History Tree – Interactive Slide show. I have it built, and saved as an .odp file. But when I try to run the Show file, it opens up in Impress in Edit mode. How do I get it to run as a Stand-alone slide show? From the Slide-Show.odp file without LibreOffice Impress be installed? I need to email the file to my family members, or anyone who does not have it installed. None can run the slide show from the file as it is. I can save it as Windows .pptx file, but interactivity is trashed, links do not work. —————————————————————————————– Creation problems:

Another shortcoming is inability to insert multipage Document.odt files into a slide. The floating frame is postal stamp size that can not be resized, and Insert text works only for few lines of text that fits into the slide. ——————————————————————————————————————————————-

Working with any objects on the slide, from background to text boxes, lines or pictures is near impossible, everything can slide every which way taking the rest with it. Some Horizontal lines just owuld not go horizontal, only on the slant. Other lines would only snap onto invisible grid lines that can not be deactivated. There is no option to fix any slide objects into place, unless you want to specifically move them. Spent more time fixing the layout instead of concentrating on the creation instead.

Abcd

What are the three options diplayed at bottom of Insert picture dialog box ?

arindam

Which dialog box?

Tina Machado

I want to create a custom slide show with specific slides for my music. I am having trouble with the music. I am sure you can fix this. We are in a crazy world of slide shows. 😉

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Libreoffice 24.2 has landed: here's what's new.

Open-source productivity to the max.

When it's time to draft a document or make a presentation, you probably use Google Workspace or the free browser-based version of Microsoft 365. But if you need an offline experience (and you aren't willing to pay), LibreOffice is your best choice. Now, LibreOffice is getting its first big 2024 update, complete with a version numbering change.

LibreOffice 24.2 Community , the latest major release of the free office suite, is finally here. Compared to the previous version, this jumps straight from version 7.x to version 24.x. It's is the first version of LibreOffice to use Ubuntu-style version numbers based on the year of release, so that's a change that you'll need to keep track of going forward.

This is a bit of a minor release compared to previous ones. General enhancements include default activation of Save AutoRecovery information, which reduces the risk of content loss for first-time users. Notable NotebookBar adjustments, improved print preview support, and better menu options are here to improve the experience for those who are used to Microsoft 365's UI.

In Writer, support for "Legal" ordered list numbering and styled comments enhance formatting flexibility and categorization. Multi-page floating table support is also seeing some improvements in overlap control, borders, footnotes, and nesting, while also gaining some UI refinements. Meanwhile, Calc introduces a new search field in the Functions sidebar deck, supports scientific number formats, and highlights rows and columns corresponding to the active cell. Impress and Draw, on the other hand, incorporate small caps handling, revised Presenter Console settings, and template-related fixes.

Accessibility changes include improvements in mouse position handling, dialogue box presentation via Accessibility APIs, and IAccessible2 roles management, making the LibreOffice suite more compatible with screen reader software. Security features include a password strength meter in the Save with Password dialogue box, enhanced password-based ODF encryption, and clarified macro security settings.

A total of 166 contributors worked on the LibreOffice 24.2 Community release, with 57% from developers at Collabora, allotropia, and Red Hat, 20% from The Document Foundation, and 23% from 108 individual volunteers. You can download LibreOffice from the official website.

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Artificial Intelligence, OpenAi... A way for Libre/Open Source software documentation and support

Hi, thank you for LO and for your time.

I am not used to say that, but it seems to me that Microsoft (and the others) have a serious head of us.

I have attended a video session on CoPilot, the AI implementation in all MS’s product. It’s fantastic. And how to use OpenAI to get some answers on “how to” with your spreadsheet (and others). To be seen: https://youtu.be/Rq5nlJZPJXk

I started to use OpenAI to get some solutions with LibreOffice Calc. Fantastic. See this thread: [Updated] Somme des cellules A1-A10

In the Free / Open Source software, it is always difficult to have time for writing documentation or for support. And in all languages. Especially towards new users.

Let me share this. I can imagine we don’t have the resources for doing the same thing. But about documentation and support. We can image, for instance here, a button below your question. “Do you want to try an answer on our IA, train by TDF”.

:slight_smile:

Have a nice day. José from France.

I don’t get what you’re suggesting. If your goal is to facilitate discovery of solutions for questions relative to LO usage, AI could effectively help users to find similar problems. But there is a flaw: AI presently is only data mining and tentative extrapolation from what was found. This requires pre-existing data, i.e. at least documentation. I’d say that probably as much as 75% of AskLO questions are the results of not reading the existing documentation and refusing the fact that LO usage departs from inherited routine. The remaining 25% are really interesting because they ask for “creative innovation”. I agree that AI could easily solve the 75% which betray some laziness from users. I doubt AI could propose breaking suggestions in the latter case. From what I hear (I have not tried ChatGPT and consequently have no opinion), many AI engines only reformulate differently the question and the solution probably emerges from some new understanding of the problem by the user. This is anyway a plus but I don’t see the true added-value.

You know, José, I partly share your excitement about AI - it’s really impressive. Like the David Copperfield show, for example (you see that you are being deceived, but you agree to endure it further because it’s fun).

I’m talking about something else now. You publish a link to the results of your dialogue with the robot over and over again, but you don’t take into account that the session with the code 3b22ea98-f125-4216-9f2a-cf55fe2cfea1 is available only to you. All other users, when they try to use your link, end up on the Get started - Log in - Sign up start page. If you want to share exactly the result of the dialogue, then just publish the text, do not force us to register there.

Oups, sorry @JohnSUN about the link. My mistake.

I have updated the link: Somme des cellules A1-A10

Have a nice day. José

Yes, this is an amazing piece of intelligence. Let it be artificial, but at least some… A living person would write “ Press the Alt-Equals key combination so that a formula with the SUM (SOMME) function appears in the cell and select with the mouse the range of cells that should be summed - in your case A1:A10 ”

Thank you for your joke @JohnSUN .

We may smile, joke, be serious for a while… I’m tempted to get very serious about all that, even more since I read a big deal of Max Tegmark’s “Life 3.0”. It’s not so much the stories he tells and the scenarios he presents. It’s about the current state of “global society” I found there concerning the ways of thinking that are presented as factually “common”.

When I (German highschool teacher M/Ph) had accompanied a group of students to Wisconsin for an exchange visit in 1992, and about a year later when a group, of US highschool students visited Bavaria in turn (and I accompanied them on occasions), I got the impression many of the US young had lost the ability to walk on feet through a city. They were used to cars, obviously. Now I feel many people may have nearly lost the ability to use printed sources of “knwoledge”. After occasional use of an AI based translator to check my English writing, I already often feel tempted (and sometimes I yield) to simply translate something from German to English instead of creating an English text myself - as I was used to for many years despite the doubtable results.

  • Another 10 years from now: Who will still take the trouble to learn a foreign language?
  • Who can tease my suspicions concerning the control and exploitation by global companies (their powerful forces) getting accesss to our complete global communication this way?
  • Assuming a nearly complete breakdown of “modern” technical means (or a wilfully caused break of the functionality): How many of the currently > 8E9 humans would be able to make a living for another few years? In the end that may be a few even still capable of growing their grains and vegetables on some piece of soil. But long before it comes to the collapse of production most people will starve from missing traffic. Traffic concerning materials, but with a similar and faster impact of failing communication.

!!!it tells you nonsense about Sheet-tab-Popup!!!

I think there is one strong question for all AIs. How to fix a bugs in AIs if the output is bad? Some AIs are really good in these days, for example e-translators. But there are always bugs in translations, but mostly not so terrible now. But there isn’t any possibility how to create really proper translator with AIs, because the indissociable part of AIs are the generators of “random” numbers. Without these pseudorandom generators, it is nearly unusable → because it always returns only one “strongest” variant. I really don’t believe in illustrious future with statistical systems strongly based on “randoms”. “Randoms” always means there will be bugs. And how to repair bugs in large AIs? Put there a much larger set of some exceptions :-)? Maybe easier could be to answer properly on Joiner paradox . Joke: Man who work with wood asks the new AI-IQ18000+: “I’m Joiner and I want to know the proper time when I must start to build own coffin. Because if I will start too much soon, there is danger the woodworms (anobiid) will eat it. And if I will start too much late, I will not finish it so it will be also work good for nothing.” I don’t weigh to tip the statistics how many asks are from “lazy users” (because I don’t read all asks, mostly only ones with label ‘macro’), but I think @ajlittoz 75% seems well. But now, we talk about LibreOffice and how to solve the problems with LibreOffice, but what happen if there will be added the button for AI “solutions”? Will we must talk about unnecessary outputs from AI? Will it decrease the count of “lazy users”? Maybe in some cases. But the “laziness” have surely subsets that aren’t only “lazy” → “I haven’t so much time to read large (but really high-quality!) LibreOffice documentation”, “I’m frustrated from the vastness of documentation”, “I’m frustrated that I thought the solution will be easy and it isn’t so easy.”, “I spent a lot of time with documentation, but I still not understand fully to problems.” So without AI we talk nearly about some live parts of our lifes, but with AIs it is only some dead mixture of some hard-primitivismed data. For example I don’t loose my time with the asks that is something from MS Office, typically “I have XLSX file and I need” - I don’t know MS Office and I don’t want to learn how to work with paid/lease software. And I will not spent a time with the asks like: “Please help me, AI gave me this.” My tip is the enthusiasm from AI will decreased (at some people), because there will start to discover in quantities the ugly bugs caused the “random” parts in algorithms. Without any possibility to fix it. And I’m not able to imagine how the AIs will solve the mix of languages. I’m Czech and few weaks ago, some friends from Poland was here. We talked with mixture of Czech, Polish and English. Of course without any notices “this is Czech word, this is Polish, that is English”. We nearly normally speak the mixture of three languages and we proportionately understand to selfs :-), and it was amusing. And will be the mixture of languages easily distinguished for AIs? Easier for example than proper answer to Joiner paradox :-)? And what to talk some AI: “Do you know Joiner paradox? So write me what is Anobiid paradox! :-)”

Thank you for sharing your feeling about this topic.

Please note, I am using the free 3.5 version. I wonder what will be the answer with the 4.0 version. And 5.0 version is already on the road.

See you soon. José

Version is not so important as solving the basic problem of inventing stuff. . We see in AI-generated code plausible looking code with functions wich are not available in the used API. This is also not acceptable for technical descriptions. So a human has to correct documentation. (Even now we see Mac-users complaining there is no Tools-Option entry in the Menu, as Apples guidelines tell to rename this.) . So we should not underestimate the work to do until you trained an AI to be really useful. And someone has to pay for the computing time for generation of the model and for running it to answer your questions also. This is easier for M$ than for TDF, even if they wished to do so.

While AI might be useful to some, it’s a pain to others - I’m an attorney and I don’t like the idea of AI being trained on my data as there’s then an issue with the confidentiality of my data. I.e. if I’m writing a confidential letter in Word, I’m no longer confident that the content of that letter is confidential as it’s being sent to a LLM. If LibreOffice introduce AI, my one ask that it’s made very clear that it’s on and very clear how to switch it off.

Hi @Richard_Gillespie , thank you for your time and I agree with your suggestion,

it’s made very clear that it’s on and very clear how to switch it off.

At the same time, the AI introduction here was more in connection with support and documentation. Something like a “How to” function.

And your comment stay pertinent.

Enjoy with LibreOffice, José from France.

It might be more in line with the goal of LibreOffice to consider making using of large language machines that run on users local computer or user’s server instead. Of course, large language models are computationally resource intensive and it might not align with everyone’s desire to run an LLM on their own machine, but I think there should be an option to allow so and to develop an LLM that would match the need and be easy to use to regular users of LibreOffice. But then there’s also another problem of would it take too much time/people/money to develop such an LLM for users of Libreoffice and would it be better to be a separate project that connect to LIbreoffice instead of for example a component of Libreoffice itself.

drawn our attention on this.

LibreOffice Content Generator with ChatGPT

Python macro on Github:

  • GitHub - raniaamina/LibreOffice-Content-Generator: This is simple python macro script for LibreOffice to help you generate content from selected words/sentences with OpenAI.

See the tutos from the author, Rania Amina:

  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxM3fvvAksH-_Wo59e22NaKwZELflb9mB

Nothing related to LO found there…

instead posting dead links and links to random crap … @jrd10 should try to use OI (Own intelligence)

:wink:

@fpy : I know, but it wasn’t worth the attention.

Sorry, it is not a dead link just a mistake in the url…

@karolus @Wanderer @fpy

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You can check for updates manually or automatically.

Checking for updates will also look for updates of all installed extensions.

Choose Help - Check for Updates to check manually.

You can disable or enable the automatic check in LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Online Update .

You will see the Check for Updates dialog with some information about the online update of LibreOffice.

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If you need a proxy server, enter the proxy settings in LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options - Internet - Proxy.

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