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Writer Guide 24.8 Released

Writer Guide 24.8

Jean H. Weber (photo) and the Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 24.8, the latest update based on the recently released LibreOffice 24.8.

Writer is the word-processing application. It is compatible with a wide range of document formats including Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), and you can export your work in several formats including PDF. Anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with Writer will find this book valuable. You may be new to word processing software, or you may be familiar with another office suite.

What’s new in LibreOffice Writer 24.8 Community?

This book has been updated from LibreOffice 24.2 Writer Guide. It covers some of the changes that are visible in the LibreOffice Writer user interface, including:

  • Width of Comment pane can now be adjusted.
  • Bullets used in the document can be selected in the Unordered List dropdown.
  • New features in the Navigator.
  • New hyphenation features.
  • Hyperlink tab was removed from character properties; use the Hyperlink dialog instead.
  • Formatting aid: to enclose selected text with parentheses, square brackets, curly braces
    or quotation marks, press the opening character.
  • Table Alignment and Left/Right spacing can be changed via the Sidebar.
  • New Find deck in Sidebar lists results of a quick search along with their context.
  • Improved support for multi-page floating tables.
  • Organizer page in style dialogs now named General page.
  • And more; see the Release Notes.
    LibreOffice 24.8 Community also includes many other changes, including:
  • Improved support for multi-page floating tables.
  • Accessibility improvements.
  • Improvements in interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats.
  • “Legal” ordered list numbering: DOC and RTF support.

Release Notes are here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.8

The Writer Guide 24.8 is available in the Documentation Website as well as in the LibreOffice Bookshelf website and it includes the guides in HTML format for web navigation, as well as the traditional PDF, ODT and the printed version from LuLu Inc.

Art at the Tobacconist’s, with a Catalogue made with LibreOffice

Manuel Frassinetti is one of our heroic volunteers working on the localisation of LibreOffice, including the site and wiki, in Italian. During the day, Manuel runs a tobacco shop in Modena – the city where he was born and where he lives – where he organises exhibitions of works by local artists.

In 2023, after the conclusion of the tenth edition of Art at the Tobacconist’s, he decided to publish a catalogue of the eight exhibitions that took place in the first six months of the year, followed by a series of photos recalling the journeys he made together with his wife Patrizia, who passed away in 2022.

To produce the catalogue, Manuel used his Linux PC with LibreOffice, in the unusual guise of a desktop publishing tool. The catalogue was printed and distributed to the customers of the tobacco shop, as well as to the artists who participated in the exhibitions.

FRASSINETTI_CATALOGO_COMP

The resolution of the images has been reduced to 150 dpi to keep the file size within the limit imposed by the blog.

LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2024

LibreOffice Conference 2024 group photo

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

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  • In addition, we’ve started editing and uploading videos from the talks. Here’s the first batch – but there are many more to come, and we’ll put them on PeerTube too. (Apologies for the occasional video stutter in some places.)

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LibreOffice at Software Freedom Day celebrations in Nepal

  • We talked to Ritobroto Mukherjee about the work he’s doing to improve LibreOffice, as part of the Google Summer of Code. He also tells us about his experiences joining our community.

Ritobroto Mukherjee<

  • Then we caught up with Jonathan Clark, who recently joined the small team at The Document Foundation to work on improving LibreOffice’s language support, especially for RTL / CTL / CJK.

Jonathan Clark

  • On the release side, we had one update to LibreOffice in October – version 24.2.7, planned to be the last in the 24.2 branch. Then all users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the latest stable branch, LibreOffice 24.8.

LibreOffice 24.2 banner

Rafael Lima

  • And finally, we looked ahead to some upcoming and future events. The LibreOffice project will be at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels at the start of February, for instance. And thinking further ahead: we’re looking for people to host the LibreOffice Conference 2025!

Keep in touch – follow us on Mastodon, X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky, Reddit and Facebook. Like what we do? Support our community with a donation – or join our community and help to make LibreOffice even better!

LibreOffice Conference 2024 – First batch of videos online!

We’ve uploaded the first batch of videos from the recent LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024! (Apologies for the video stutter in a few places – which was beyond our control.)

This is just the beginning, with many more still to come (and PeerTube versions too). So enjoy watching, and click in the top-right to choose videos from the playlist…

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Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! 🎉

Month of LibreOffice banner

Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate to improve the software – and you can help them. There are many ways to get involved, as you’ll see in a second.

And best of all: everyone who contributes to LibreOffice in November can claim a cool sticker pack, and has the chance to win extra LibreOffice merchandise such as mugs, hoodies, T-shirts, rucksacks and more (we’ll choose 10 participants at random at the end):

How to take part

There are many ways you can help out – and you don’t need to be a developer. For instance, you can be a…

  • Handy Helper, answering questions from users on Ask LibreOffice. We’re keeping an eye on that site so if you give someone useful advice, you can claim your shiny stickers.
  • First Responder, helping to confirm new bug reports: Go to our Bugzilla page and look for new bugs. If you can recreate one, add a comment like “CONFIRMED on Windows 11 and LibreOffice 24.8.2”.
  • Drum Beater, spreading the word: Tell everyone about LibreOffice on Mastodon, Bluesky or X (Twitter)! Just say why you love it or what you’re using it for, add the #libreoffice hashtag, and at the end of the month you can claim your stickers.
  • Globetrotter, translating the user interface: LibreOffice is available in a wide range of languages, but its interface translations need to be kept up-to-date. Or maybe you want to translate the suite to a whole new language? Get involved here.
  • Docs Doctor, writing documentation: Whether you want to update the online help or add chapters to the handbooks, here’s where to start.

We’ll be updating this page every few days with usernames across our various services, as people contribute. So dive in, get involved and help make LibreOffice better for millions of people around the world – and enjoy your sticker pack at the end as thanks from us! And who knows, maybe you’ll be lucky enough to win bonus merch as well…

So let’s get going! We’ll be posting regular updates on this blog and our Mastodon, Bluesky and X (Twitter) accounts over the next four weeks – stay tuned…

LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available – the last release in the 24.2 branch

Berlin, 31 October 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.7, the seventh and final planned minor update to the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, is available on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.

The release includes over 50 bug and regression fixes over LibreOffice 24.2.6 [1] to improve the stability and robustness of the software, as well as interoperability with legacy and proprietary document formats. LibreOffice 24.2.7 is aimed at mainstream users and enterprise production environments.

LibreOffice is the only office suite with a feature set comparable to the market leader, and offers a range of user interface options to suit all users, from traditional to modern Microsoft Office-style. The UI has been developed to make the most of different screen form factors by optimizing the space available on the desktop to put the maximum number of features just a click or two away.

LibreOffice for Enterprises

For enterprise-class deployments, TDF strongly recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with a range of dedicated value-added features, long term support and other benefits such as SLAs: LibreOffice in Business.

Every line of code developed by ecosystem companies for enterprise customers is shared with the community on the master code repository and contributes to the improvement of the LibreOffice Technology platform.

Availability of LibreOffice 24.2.7

LibreOffice 24.2.7 is available from our download page. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Windows 7 SP1 and macOS 10.15. Products based on LibreOffice Technology for Android and iOS are listed here: www.libreoffice.org/download/android-and-ios/.

This is planned to be the last minor update to the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, which reaches end-of-life in November. All users are then recommended to upgrade to the LibreOffice 24.8 stable branch.

LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members can support The Document Foundation by making a donation on our donate page.

[1] Fixes in RC1: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.2.7/RC1. Fixes in RC2: wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/24.2.7/RC2.

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