The Documentation team just published the Calc Guide and Writer Guide as on-line pages in the Bookshelf at https://books.libreoffice.org
Presented as web pages, the guides contents can now be accessed with your favorite browser and use the browser resources to navigate, bookmark and reference pages.
Together with the PDF versions, the guides web pages can be downloaded and installed in local networks using a simple web server.
Happy reading!
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
The Czech team has finished translating the LibreOffice Writer Guide 24.2. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Radomír Strnad and Zdeněk Crhonek. Then Roman Toman contributed localised pictures, and Miloš Šrámek provided technical support. Thanks to everyone in the team for their work!
The Czech translation of the Writer Guide 24.2 is available for download on this page.
We’ve not yet decided which guide we’ll translate next, but we’re always looking for new translators and correctors. Join us!
Awesome work everyone! 😊
Today we’re talking to Dione Maddern, who helps out in LibreOffice’s documentation team…
I’m 44. Originally from Brisbane, Australia but I currently live in Baltimore, on the East Coast of the USA. I’ve worked in a variety of administration, document production roles in the engineering and insurance industries.
Most of my technical writing experience has been writing procedures, instructions, and other documentation for Health Safety Environment and Quality (HSEQ) systems. This is my first software project.
In my spare time, I like to bake, draw, and play video games and tabletop RPGs.
I’m working on the Offline Help (F1) function of LibreOffice, fixing broken links and updating instructions and terminology.
I saw the banner on the user guide page asking for volunteers to work on Documentation Team. I’d been looking for a volunteer opportunity where I could use my skills in document production for a while and this seemed perfect. So I followed the link and posted my bio on the Documentation forum.
I felt a bit daunted at first because a lot people had more experience than me, or were from a software development background. Everyone has been very welcoming and I feel like I’ve been able to make a contribution to the project. I’ve learned a lot too, including a crash course in XML and Gerrit.
Dive in! It can seem a bit daunting at first, but it’s easier to get started than you think.
Thanks so much to Dione for all the help! Indeed, everyone is welcome to dive in, help out, and pick up valuable experience along the way. Who knows – perhaps it could lead to a career in technical writing…
The LibreOffice Community Documentation Team is happy to announce the immediate release of the latest Writer and Calc guides for the new LibreOffice 24.2 office suite.
The two books are updates of the respective LibreOffice 7.6 guides, and describe the new features available in LibreOffice 24.2.
Jean Weber and Steve Fanning leaded the update of the Guides and provided valuable inputs to the contents.
Updated and review by Jean Weber, the Writer Guide is the authoritative guide for using Writer to edit documents, from a single page to a full book. The latest Writer guide includes all these updates:
Updated by Steve Fanning, the guide contains description of the new features of Calc 24.2, the spreadsheet program of LibreOffice:
LibreOffice Community 24.2 also includes many other changes, including:
The Guides are available in PDF, in source OpenDocument Format and printed versions from the bookshelf and documentation web pages.
Rob Thornton, Vlada Savitskaia, Peter Schofield, B. Antonio Fernandez, Jean H. Weber and Olivier Hallot, volunteers from the LibreOffice Documentation community, are happy to announce the latest version of the Getting Started Guide updated to the features available in LibreOffice 7.6.
This book is for anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with LibreOffice 7.6. It introduces Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor), and Base (database).
The Guides can be downloaded from the Documentation website as well as the bookshelf project.
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
The Czech team has finished its translation of the LibreOffice Impress Guide 7.5. As usual it was a team effort, with translations by Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Radomír Strnad. Localized pictures were provided by Roman Toman, and technical support came from Miloš Šrámek. Thanks to all the team for their work!
The Czech translation of the Impress Guide 7.5 is available for download on this page. We haven’t yet decided what we will translate next – probably we will wait for the next big release (LibreOffice 24.2), but if any volunteers would like to join us in the meantime, please visit this page.
Great work everyone!
