08 Nov 2024

Writer Guide 24.8 Released

Posted in Community, Documentation By Olivier Hallot On November 8, 2024
Writer Guide 24.8

Jean H. Weber (photo) and the Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 24.8, the latest update based on the recently released LibreOffice 24.8.

Writer is the word-processing application. It is compatible with a wide range of document formats including Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), and you can export your work in several formats including PDF. Anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with Writer will find this book valuable. You may be new to word processing software, or you may be familiar with another office suite.

What’s new in LibreOffice Writer 24.8 Community?

This book has been updated from LibreOffice 24.2 Writer Guide. It covers some of the changes that are visible in the LibreOffice Writer user interface, including:

  • Width of Comment pane can now be adjusted.
  • Bullets used in the document can be selected in the Unordered List dropdown.
  • New features in the Navigator.
  • New hyphenation features.
  • Hyperlink tab was removed from character properties; use the Hyperlink dialog instead.
  • Formatting aid: to enclose selected text with parentheses, square brackets, curly braces
    or quotation marks, press the opening character.
  • Table Alignment and Left/Right spacing can be changed via the Sidebar.
  • New Find deck in Sidebar lists results of a quick search along with their context.
  • Improved support for multi-page floating tables.
  • Organizer page in style dialogs now named General page.
  • And more; see the Release Notes.
    LibreOffice 24.8 Community also includes many other changes, including:
  • Improved support for multi-page floating tables.
  • Accessibility improvements.
  • Improvements in interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats.
  • “Legal” ordered list numbering: DOC and RTF support.

Release Notes are here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.8

The Writer Guide 24.8 is available in the Documentation Website as well as in the LibreOffice Bookshelf website and it includes the guides in HTML format for web navigation, as well as the traditional PDF, ODT and the printed version from LuLu Inc.