Posted on 01/30/2020 8:05:33 AM PST by ShadowAce
The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of the LibreOffice 6.4 open-source and cross-platform office suite for all supported platforms.
LibreOffice 6.4 has been development during the past five months, but the final release is now available to download for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. This is a major release that introduces several new features, multiple performance improvements, especially when working with presentations and spreadsheets, as well as better compatibility with Microsoft Office documents.
LibreOffice 6.4 is the first new release available in 2020. During the year, the community will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the best free office suite ever at several Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) events in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Several volunteers will present the project milestones and discuss the future of the office suite, on the desktop and in the cloud, said The Document Foundation.
Highlights of LibreOffice 6.4 include a QR code generator to make it easier to add QR codes to your documents, a new Automatic Redaction feature that lets you hide sensitive or classified information in your documents, and unified hyperlink context menus as Copy Hyperlink Location, Edit Hyperlink, Open Hyperlink, and Remove Hyperlink.
The built-in help system has been updated as well to provide faster and more precise search results, and several help pages now offer localized screenshots for a better user experience. Other than that, this release introduce application icons to document thumbnails inside the Start Center, which makes it easier for users to recognize documents.
Writer received a Table panel in the Sidebar, the ability to mark comments as resolved and add comments to images and charts inside word documents, as well as improved copying, cutting, and the selection of drawing objects anchored at-paragraph should now work more consistently.
Moreover, a new wrap option automatically avoids overlapping shapes in Writer, which should perform better when importing files with many bookmarks. Table handling has been dramatically improved allowing faster table and table row/column moving and deletion. Also, pasting of tables inside text documents thanks to a new Paste as Nested Table menu option.
Calc now lets users export screenshots into a single PDF page, offers faster sorting, and improves scalability of formula-groups computation on multi-core CPUs. Impress and Draw get a new Consolidate Text option in the Shape menu that combines multiple selected text boxes into a single one, which might come in handy if text content is split across multiple boxes when importing PDF documents.
LibreOffice Online also received some improvements, among which we can mention the ability for users to more easily modify table properties in word documents from the sidebar and fully manage the documents Table of Contents (ToC), full featured Function Wizard in Calc, along with several new options for selected charts in the spreadsheet sidebar.
The Excel 2003 XML import filter, DOC and DOCX import/export filter, and PPT and PPTX import/export filter have also been improved in LibreOffice 6.4, which also features a new menu option to hide the ruler and a dropdown option in the statusbar to allow users to quickly switch the document language.
I thought so too. Back in late 90s/Y2K I used Opera for combined browsing and email. I’ve recently switched back to it as my primary browswer after 10 years or so on Firefox, but using T-Bird for email.
One annoying thing I learned about T-Bird the other day. I have T-Bird set up to delete emails from my ISP POP server after two weeks or immediately if I delete them on my PC. Then I have about the last two weeks emails available to review from my phone/tablet/etc. I set up a filter the other day to filter a certain sender straight to trash, but for some reason, that doesn’t count as a deletion that T-Bird tells the server about, so that the server deletes them. If I delete manually, T-Bird tells the server, and then they disappear next time my phone checks for emails. Anybody know of a workaround for this?
I have my Outlook setup to immediately remove the emails from the server when I download them, but I also have my email accounts setup on via the POP server, not IMAP. I prefer it that way and my ISP never has a cache of my email traffic on it.
Well, I have POP too, for mostly the same reason. I feel better maintaining my own emails, but by having a short-term cache (except for deleted items), then I can refer back to an email on my phone when I’m not at the computer.
Annoyed that auto-moving an email to Trash on receipt doesn’t count as a deletion for synching purposes though.
This is one of the reasons why I’m staying with Outlook as my primary email client. Even though I have Thunderbird on my Linux box, I still ultimately maintain all of my emails in Outlook. I configure Thunderbird to keep emails on the server and when I open Outlook it downloads them and deletes them off the server.
LibreOffice is free. So install it, open your MS docs with, and then let us know how it works!
However, one feature that no current word pro that I know of has is that of AutoPaste, meaning an option that will auto paste into a document whatever you choose to copy. Maybe there is a way to do that in Linux (not merely copying, or copying to the clipboard, but to a word pro that auto saves) A word pro named Text Shield, that I still use sometimes when selectively copying texts from a long document, enables that in Windows.
unified hyperlink context menus as Copy Hyperlink Location, Edit Hyperlink, Open Hyperlink, and Remove Hyperlink.
I wonder how they would change this:
"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.