LibreOffice’s Documentation Team releases the Getting Started Guide 6.0, the introductory text for all LibreOffice applications and more.
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17 Sep 2018
Documentation: Getting Started Guide 6.0 released
10 Aug 2018
Taming LibreOffice 6.1’s New Help System
or… the Help must help.
LibreOffice 6.1 has been released and carries a refactored and improved new Help system, based on modern browser technologies. Let’s explore what this new help brought to LibreOffice.
21 May 2018
Guide Revision Sprint Week
We are announcing a Revision Sprint Week, starting Monday May 21st and ending on Sunday May 27th to review the contents of all chapters of the Getting Started Guide 6.0.
The task consist of downloading a chapter and review it. Then send it back to documentation at libreoffice dot org when revision is finished.
Volunteers are invited
25 Mar 2018
Rich Contents Arrives in New Help
Last week the new help system – online and offline – received enhancements to add multimedia and other resources for a richer user experience of LibreOffice Help. The new help can now access external videos stored in You Tube or similar services and also to open or download OpenDocument files to support the textual explanations
19 Feb 2018
Making Macro Programming a Breeze: The BASIC & API Reference Cards
Update: Reference card for runtime library is now available.
One of the recurring issue when using LibreOffice as a replacement of other office applications is the migration of macros to the LibreOffice BASIC dialect and objects. While the LibreOffice BASIC programming language is almost standard, the objects inside a document have different names, methods and properties,
12 Feb 2018
The LibreOffice Mardi Gras Party for Help: What’s new and fun in online Help?
Starting with the recent release of the 6.0 family, LibreOffice has now a brand new online help system. Unlike the previous version – based on the transfer of help content to the Mediawiki framework hosted by The Document Foundation – the new help is a direct transformation of the help XML files into simple HTML