Author: Olivier Hallot

Jean H. Weber (photo) and the Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 7.6, the latest update based on the recently released LibreOffice 7.6.

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.

The 7.6 Writer Guide incorporates the latest features including:

• Themes management for better MS Word compatibility
• The Accessibility checker used to produce accessible documents
• Styles Spotlight to assist user in the best practices in document editing with styles.

The Writer Guide 7.6 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.

Happy Documentation!

The community documentation team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Impress Guide 7.5 and Draw Guide 7.5. The guides are updated to the latest LibreOffice release as a community effort to keep our literature sharp and up to date.

The double gift is brought to you by Peter Schofield with valuable contributions by Socks Eight, members of the documentation team.

The Impress Guide covers the main features of Impress, the presentations (slide show) component of LibreOffice. You can create slides that contain text, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, charts, clip art, and other objects. Impress comes with prepackaged text styles, slide backgrounds, and Help. It can open and save to Microsoft PowerPoint formats and can export to PDF, HTML, and numerous graphic formats. This book was written by volunteers from the LibreOffice community.

The Draw Guide introduces the main features of LibreOffice Draw. Draw is a vector graphics drawing tool, although it can also perform some operations on raster graphics (pixels) such as photographs. Using Draw, a wide variety of graphical images can be quickly created.

The guides can be downloaded or purchased in printed version from the Documentation website as well as the bookshelf project.

Happy reading!

The LibreOffice Documentation team is happy to announce the new Math Guide 7.5, for the equation editor of the LibreOffice productivity suite.

Anyone who wants to learn how to insert formulas and equations using Math will find this 73-page guide valuable. Formulas can be inserted as objects into Writer, Impress, Draw, and Calc documents. Regardless of the document type, formula objects are edited using LibreOffice Math.

Thanks to Vitor Ferreira, the new guide has included the changes carried from LibreOffice 7.2 and is now fully updated.

He added:

I am a college professor of Mechanical Engineering at Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil. I use LibreOffice Math since 2019 for my documents and lectures notes, and I together with the Brazilian LibreOffice Community I updated the Math Guide to the latest release.” Said Vitor Ferreira. “The opportunity to volunteer to LibreOffice Documentation was unique and I found it very encouraging in all aspects of document production.

The Math Guide 7.5 is available for immediate download in PDF and ODF formats at the Documentation website and the LibreOffice Bookshelf website.