LibreOffice Writer was born – as StarWriter – to produce lengthy documents, such as thesis and relations, and as such offers a number of specific features in this area. Two of the most important are Templates and Styles, which facilitate the creation of good looking documents, and make it easier to reproduce a standard document once the layout – including Styles – has been defined and consolidated.…
07 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #7
06 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #6
LibreOffice offers an AutoText feature which can be accessed from the menu Edit > AutoText, which opens a simple dialog windows. The example shown in the image on the left is the well known Lorem Ipsum pseudo Latin blurb, which can be used to mimic a document layout, but the feature offers a number of pre-defined standard strings (for instance: 1st Reminder, 2nd Reminder, etcetera), plus several Business Cards layouts, plus a number of template elements (for instance: Header Brochure, Header Newsletter, etcetera).…
05 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #5
Today, a very simple tip, for all those people who are using LibreOffice and own a mouse with a scroll wheel (today, most mice have a scroll wheel, or are able to mimic the behavior of a scroll wheel).
LibreOffice allows to zoom a document from 20% (very tiny) to 600% (very large), independently from the application (Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw), by pressing the Control key on the keyboard and rotating the scroll wheel.…
04 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #4
LibreOffice has a comprehensive AutoCorrect feature, which can be accessed from the menu Tools > AutoCorrect Options… The command opens a dialog window with five tabs: Replace, Exceptions, Options, Localized Options, and Word Completion. Replace provides a list of symbols and words which might be entered using the wrong character or misspelled, and will be corrected automatically once entered.…
03 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #3
LibreOffice Impress allows to create a nice Photo Album with a few clicks of the mouse. First, you open an empty presentation. Second, you access the feature with Insert > Media > Photo Album. Third, you press the Add button to select your pictures from your hard disk. Fourth, you choose your options (slide layout, caption, aspect ratio) and then press Insert Slides to create the Photo Album, and – in a few seconds – you get the final product.…
02 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #2
Save Impress Slides as Images
LibreOffice allows to export single Impress slides as images, by accessing the menu File > Export…, and then by choosing one of the available file formats. Using this feature, exporting all the slides of an Impress presentation is a rather tedious operation.
Luckily, there is a LibreOffice extension which allows to export all slides as images in a single operation.…