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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday February 02 2017, @08:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-only-took-10-years dept.

Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports

LibreOffice 5.3 is the newest version of the popular open source Office suite, and one of the "most feature-rich releases in the history of the application".

The Office suite, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, is now also available as a private cloud version, called LibreOffice Online.

LibreOffice, at is[sic] core, is an open source alternative to Microsoft Office. It features Writer, a text editing program similar to Word, Calc, the Excel equivalent, Impress which is similar to PowerPoint, and Draw, which enables you to create graphic documents.

LibreOffice 5.3 ships with a truckload of new features. One of the new features is a new experimental user interface called Notebookbar. This new interface resembles Office's ribbon UI, but is completely optional [submitters emphasis] right now.

In fact, the new user interface is not enabled by default, and if you don't look for it or know where to look, you will probably notice no difference at all to previous versions.

To enable the new Ribbon UI, select View > Toolbar Layout > Notebookbar. The UI you see on the screenshot above is enabled by default, but you may switch it using View > Notebookbar to either Contextual Groups or Contextual Single.

[...] One interesting option that the developers built-in to LibreOffice 5.3 is the ability to sign PDF documents, and to verify PDF document signatures.

[...] The Writer application got some exciting new features. It supports Table styles now for instance, and there is a new Page deck in the sidebar to customize the page settings quickly and directly.

There is also an option to use the new "go to page" box, and arrows in the drawing tools which were not available previously in Writer.

Calc got a new set of default cell styles offering "greater variety and better names", a new median function for pivot tables, and a new filter option when you are inserting functions to narrow down the selection.

The article also has 4 demo videos embedded.

In the comments there, Donutz notes that the Ribbon UI requires the Java Runtime Environment.
Oggy notes that the suite is available from PortableApps. (Martin's site is largely Windows-centric).


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @09:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @09:40PM (#462117)

    My suggested dept. line was
    from the software-projects-playing-follow-the-leader dept.
    Perhaps not the best dept. line ever.
    I was thinking about the Firefox/Google thing I will admit.

    The editor's dept. line is
    from the that-only-took-10-years dept.

    I think that this (sub)thread indicates that the "demand" for this was not high among users/potential users with not much incentive for the LibreOffice devs to invest a huge amount of time and effort.
    I'd like to have seen a poll on the popularity of this notion before it was coded in.
    ...and a poll in a few months from now among folks who have tried it.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @09:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @09:56PM (#462133)

    My suggested dept. line was
    from the software-projects-playing-follow-the-leader dept.
    Perhaps not the best dept. line ever.
    I was thinking about the Firefox/Google thing I will admit.

    The editor's dept. line is
    from the that-only-took-10-years dept.

    I've grown quite tired of your complaining about the editors changing your submission. Editors edit. The editors have a whole community of readers, of whom only one is you. If you want to publish stories exactly the way you wrote them, then please start your own blog. Otherwise, accept the fact that the editors edit submissions. If you notice they are regularly doing something to your submissions, you might want to take a look at what you are doing and... do something different. How does it go? "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results."

    Don't get me wrong, I've seen many an interest story and comment from you, but so much of its value is hidden by its presentation. For example: "Micro$oft" "Windoze", excessive use of bold and italics tags, selective quoting of stories to push an agenda. If you have a point, just make the point and let its value stand on its own.

    And, just like you, I'll choose to post Anonymously.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @10:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @10:16PM (#462145)

      I've grown quite tired of your complaining

      I'm old and I'm crotchety.
      The main thing that I do these days is bitch about stuff.
      If you aren't into that, do skip over my comments.

      As for the -content- of the 2 examples, one suggested that large numbers of users were champing at the bit for this feature.
      I doubt that that was/is true.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]