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LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2022

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more…

  • Our biggest event in September was the LibreOffice Conference 2022! This was the first in-person conference since 2019, due to the pandemic, and it was a great opportunity to meet face-to-face, share ideas and make plans for the future of our projects. We live-streamed presentations – and will be uploading the videos next week. Stay tuned!

  • In September, we released two new updates for LibreOffice: 7.3.6 and 7.4.1. All users are recommended to upgrade 👍

  • LibreOffice is, as always, free of charge to download from our website. But now we’re offering it in the Mac App Store for a small price, to cover the costs of placing it there, and helping to fund future development on macOS-specific improvements. So if you want to get regular updates via the App Store and help to fund future development, you can get it there. (But it will remain totally free on the LibreOffice website, as mentioned.)

  • Help tocCrowdfund audio recording and playback in LibreOffice presentations! LibreOffice’s presentation tool, Impress, includes a bunch of features for home and office use. But one thing that’s missing is recording and playback for audio comments in presentations. This project aims to crowdfund the feature.

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Lox365 extension: XLOOKUP (and more) for LibreOffice Calc

More news from the LibreOffice subreddit! User goose_pirate posted about an extension:

Hi everyone, I made this little extension for LibreOffice Calc which adds a few functions, currently FILTER, SORT, and XLOOKUP. I hope others will find this as useful as I do.

XLOOKUP is a function for finding things in a table by range or row. We asked goose_pirate for a bit of background on the extension:

I’ve been using both Excel and LibreOffice for many years and found the new(er) Excel functions like XLOOKUP to be really nice compared to the old VLOOKUP or INDEX MATCH. I wanted to use it in LibreOffice too, so I wrote this extension.

How I made it: I researched information about LibreOffice extensions, dissected a few such extensions made by others, and finally started my own. It wasn’t too bad, I was surprised no one has made something similar yet.

Great work, goose! 😊

Learn more and download here (in the “build” folder)

Crowdfund audio recording and playback in LibreOffice presentations!

LibreOffice’s presentation tool, Impress, includes a bunch of features for home and office use. But one thing that’s missing is recording and playback for audio comments in presentations.

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This feature is important in eLearning: in contrast to video recordings, audio recordings are stored per slide, and can be adjusted to match the individual pace of the presentation. This is particularly suitable in school, academic as well as corporate environments to make learning content and product presentations more interactive.

So, how can we get this feature in LibreOffice? Well, the CH Open association, which has been promoting open systems and standards in the Swiss ICT landscape for over 40 years, is organising a crowdfunding campaign to implement the feature. The project is estimated to cost €62,000 in total – with various milestones along the way.

Click here to learn more and participate!

Video tutorials for LibreOffice Writer, Calc and Impress

On the LibreOffice subreddit, we became aware of some useful tutorial videos created by Steven Davids. These cover various components of the suite, and show how to achieve common tasks.

We asked Steven about how he chooses the topics for his videos, and how he makes them:

My video tutorials come to me – I do not go and look for them. If I have a problem, I search for a solution on the web. I always assume I am not unique, and that many other people had or have the same problem. If I do not find a solution or one that is readily available, I struggle my way out to a solution. Then I share that solution via video! Why video? Because it seems to me people are lazy to read and video illustrations are just easier to understand.

The videos are very low budget and homemade. There are no costs for the software since I use free public open-source programs for the screen recorder and video editor. There are many such programs, but OBS Studio and Shotcut serves me very well. I often use LibreOffice Presentation to assist in presenting the material. The hardware is also low cost. I already have a laptop and mobile phone so there are not extra costs there. A mid-range microphone from Samson is indispensable and basically the only additional cost.

Click here to view the playlist on YouTube!

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