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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: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Friday February 03 2017, @07:22AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Friday February 03 2017, @07:22AM (#462263)

    The ribbon is a tablet interface. Some of us still use proper workstations with keyboards.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday February 03 2017, @08:41PM

    by edIII (791) on Friday February 03 2017, @08:41PM (#462584)

    Proper? These things can work together and not be mutually exclusive. The vast majority of the time I'm working with SSH shells and headless servers, and I'm not doing much with the workstation itself. So by some of us, you mean both of us.

    Touch screens are somewhat superior to a mouse, and whether or not you have a proper workstation, you still have some sort of quick access bar (depending on OS/windowing system). So why does that quick access bar *have* to be on the workstation itself, and not split out to a separate touch screen? Tradition, or something?

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    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday February 04 2017, @06:33AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Saturday February 04 2017, @06:33AM (#462775)

      I do CAD and CAM. My left hand is shared by the Space Pilot and the keyboard, my right hand stays on the trackball. I access most functions through access keys for the dropdown menus; I only have icons on the screen for functions which are inaccessible through the dropdowns. I haven't updated to the latest version of my software since they ditched dropdowns in favor of ribbons, and the access keys for the ribbons are nonsensical and often two keys per selection. for toolpaths for example, which used to be . Unless I'm hitting one of those few icons my pointer stays on the work in the graphics window.

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