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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).
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Friday February 03 2017, @03:40PM
> ...but an every-bloody-user's-thing-is-unique setup??
> Just, WOW!
Just imagine with the old menus and toolbars if you could change the UI by moving all the buttons around, changing what was on each toolbar, changing the contents of each menu. Then add to that OLE controls that when you click on them can insert their own items or menus, even naming items the same as ones that are already there, just depending on context/focus...
Imagine a guy in a call center trying to talk a user through a problem with that UI.
Oh wait, that was 2003, that was what we already had _before_ the ribbon. Sheesh people have short memories.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @07:56PM
...or maybe it's that we have had a completely different experience.
Looking through the (meta)thread, it's pretty clear who has been dependent on M$ file formats and M$ apps to access those.
I've never had that dependency.
Even going back in my working days, I have had intelligent corespondents who sent their communiques in plain text.
Going back to the DOS days, when I needed formatting for printing, I used (shareware) VDE (Video Display Editor) which used WordStar-compatible markup.
That app served those needs until I switched to FOSS.
I never felt any need to feed MSFT's cash cow with its closed file formats by giving The Borg my bucks in order to use their proprietary junk on my personal machine.
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