Last Saturday, November 8, I have managed a workshop at SFScon on Font management for document interoperability in LibreOffice. The workshop aimed to demonstrate how to configure and manage the LibreOffice font replacement feature, one of the key elements of document interoperability. Although font replacement on the fly is a long-standing LibreOffice feature,
Tips & Tricks Archive
12 Jun 2025
Create a colour wheel in LibreOffice
Regina Henschel writes:
Susanne Mohn asked on the German-language user’s mailing list how to create a colour wheel with LibreOffice. It was not about the colours themselves, but about the geometry. How do you create a circle or ring with equally
16 Apr 2024
Quick tip: creating “hybrid” PDF files in LibreOffice
Here’s a LibreOffice feature you may not know about: when exporting a PDF, the “Hybrid PDF” option embeds the original file. Then anyone with a PDF reader can view the file – and LibreOffice users can edit it too.
Learn more about this feature here
15 Jan 2024
Community Member Monday: Don Matschull
TXDon (aka Don Matschull) is a regular on our Ask LibreOffice website, helping users with their questions. He also maintains a YouTube channel with video tutorials about the suite, and has created courses on Udemy. We chatted with him about his work
21 Nov 2022
Quick tutorial – Docking Colour Palettes in LibreOffice Draw
Did you know? You can dock colour palettes in many places in LibreOffice Draw. Here’s a quick video from Harald Berger, from the German LibreOffice community:
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22 Sep 2022
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:
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