The Documentation Team has released an updated edition of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 (revision 1) with new contents on sparklines and conditional formatting. Typos and last minute mistakes and formatting were also fixed in this release.
The guide is now available for download in PDF and ODF format and an online version is also available in the Bookshelf project.
The LibreOffice community is grateful of the volunteer work of Skip Masonsmith, flywire and Roman Kuznetsov for their contributions. The job for the next release of the Calc Guide is ready to start.
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.
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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.
Peter Schofield and Kees Kriek are happy to announce the Draw Guide 7.3 with the latest LibreOffice Draw 7.3 developments.
This 348 pages book covers the main features of Draw, the vector graphics component of LibreOffice. Using Draw, a wide variety of graphical images can be created.
Vector graphics store and display a picture as simple geometric elements such as lines, circles, and polygons rather than as a collection of pixels (points on the screen). This permits simpler storage and supports precise scaling of the picture elements.
Draw is fully integrated into LibreOffice. This simplifies exchanging graphics with Writer, Calc, and Impress. Images can be exported in many formats for use in other programs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Have you ever tried to draw special and complex shapes beyond the basic offerings of LibreOffice? A custom shape of the Fibonacci spiral defined by its equation and properties with handles to reshape size? Thanks to Regina Henschel, now you have a tutorial for drawing custom shapes of your own and use them in LibreOffice.
Currently, LibreOffice provides a lot of predefined custom shapes. They are grouped to the sets ‘Basic Shapes’, ‘Block Arrows’, ‘Symbol Shapes’, ‘Stars and Banners’, ‘Callouts’, and ‘Flowchart’. And all shapes from the ‘Fontwork Gallery’ are custom shapes too. But you can do more, much more.
