Author: Olivier Hallot

The new Calc Guide 7.4 bring updated information for users on the latest LibreOffice 7.4 release.

Skip Masonsmith and Kees Kriek of the LibreOffice Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4.

The guide is for beginner to advanced users of Calc, the spreadsheet component of LibreOffice. The book introduces the features and functions of LibreOffice Calc. It is not a tutorial on using spreadsheets. Some chapters assume familiarity with basic spreadsheet usage when describing how to use Calc.

“It has been fantastic to join the LibreOffice documentation community of technical writing experts. As I worked on the Calc Guide 7.4 updates, I was well supported by the team to ensure the best outcome for everyone. It was a great experience and I look forward to working on more guides with the team.” said Skip Masonsmith, Calc Guide 7.4 coordinator.

The teamwork effort of Skip and Kees allowed to release the Calc Guide 7.4 in record time. The team decided to skip the Calc Guide 7.3 and merged it into the latest release 7.4.

The guide is available to download at the Documentation website and at the LibreOffice Bookshelf website. Both PDF and the source files are available. Our team used LibreOffice master documents to assemble the book and updated the style template for improved reading and text layout.

The community is invited to comment and give us feedback on the LibreOffice Calc 7.4  guide by joining our Documentation FORUM. Come along and let’s turn our Guides in the best LibreOffice user documentation reference.

The Impress Guide 7.3 has just arrived with the latest LibreOffice Impress 7.3 developments.

This 374 pages book 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.

The Guide update was an effort of Peter Schofield and Kees Kriek.

Thank you guys for the wonderful Impress Guide!

The full set of published LibreOffice guides is available in the LibreOffice Documentation Website and in the LibreOffice Bookshelf Project.

Writer Guide 7.3 comes with the latest updates for LibreOffice Community 7.3

The Documentation team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 7.3.

This user guide has been updated from Writer Guide 7.2. It covers changes that are visible in the LibreOffice Writer user interface and additional information from earlier releases, including:

• Enhancements to Track Changes (Chapter 3). More details are in the Release Notes.
• Added details about the Print dialog in macOS (Chapter 7).
• Updated details about Templates dialog (Chapter 10).
• Updated list terminology in Chapter 11 and anywhere else lists are mentioned.
• Minor rewording and replacement figures in several chapters.

LibreOffice 7.3 Community includes many changes not visible in the user interface. These changes include further improvements in interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, including new features targeted at users migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, or exchanging documents between the two office suites. These improvements include:

• New handling of change tracking in tables and when text is moved.
• Performance improvements when opening large DOCX and XLSX/XLSM files, improved rendering speed of some complex documents, and new rendering speed improvements when using the Skia back-end introduced with LibreOffice 7.1.
• Improvements to import/export filters.
• ScriptForge libraries, which make it easier to develop macros, have been extended with various features.

LibreOffice Community 7.3 release notes are here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.3.

This update was possible with the volunteer work of Jean H. Weber and Kees Kriek from the LibreOffice Documentation Team.  A big thank you to Jean and Kees for their wonderful work.

Donwload the LibreOffice Writer Guide 7.3 from the Documentation website and the LibreOffice Bookshelf.

The LibreOffice Documentation Team is devoted to produce the best documentation for LibreOffice and is open to everyone interested in contributing to our collective effort.

Ayhan Yalçinsoy gifted the Turkish community with the long awaited LibreOffice Başlangıç Kılavuzu, easing Turkish users to master LibreOffice. The guide is the translation of the English book Getting Started Guide carried by Ayhan, member of The Document Foundation and Board of Directors deputy.

“I’ve been using LibreOffice since 2010. It makes me happy to support and contribute to this application that I use with pleasure. For this reason, I have been trying to contribute by translating the interface and help text since the day I started using it. I know that every contribution counts in the open source world.” says Ayhan. “I would like to thank Muhammet Kara for what he has done for LibreOffice here. I learned from him how I can contribute to LibreOffice apart from interface translation. I solved some easyhack issue with his support.”

Ayhan continues describing the endeavor: “After all these contributions, we established a certification team. We started the translation work for the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide 6.2 about a year ago, but for some reasons we could not continue. This issue remained in my mind. Finally, with the encouragement of Muhammet Kara and the sponsorship of TUBITAK/ULAKBIM, I completed the translation of Getting Started Guide 7.2. Uploaded to tr.libreoffice.org and documentation.libreoffice.org. I hope it will be useful for the users.”

The work relied on participation of other Turkish community members: “Of course, I did not prepare the images in the Guide. I would also like to thank Murat Özgün for preparing all the visuals, despite his busy schedule.”

“I am currently working on the LibreOffice Calc 7.2 Guide. I aim to bring all the guides in order to the community that uses LibreOffice in Turkish. I hope I can make it. It would be very difficult for me to do it all alone. But I think I can find volunteer friends to help. With their support, we can get through this.”

Let’s call the Turkish community to come and help Ayhan’s effort on the LibreOffice Guides set.