Today we’re talking to Peter Schofield from LibreOffice’s documentation community… Tell us a bit about yourself! I am Yorkshire bred and born, which was a very long time ago. Left home at 16 to join the Royal Air Force. Served for almost 19 years as an Aircraft Technician, which is where my engineering knowledge started. Became interested in Technical Writing in the early 80s and became qualified as a Technical Writer in 1985. This has enabled me to work in aviation, defence, mining, plant machinery, construction, electronics, telecommunications, computer peripherals and software. This did involve working in several countries, which has given me a very broad outlook on life. Now official retired from paid work and have settled down in Poland with my lovely Polish wife. How did you get involved in LibreOffice? First came across an early version of LibreOffice in the 90s when I started using Star Office, which then became OpenOffice. I have always been interested in open software being freely available to users to help them save money, not having having to pay the big corporations. I took to LibreOffice when I retired and realised how good it is, so I decided to help the project.
Creating Presentations using LibreOffice Impress Part 1 Type Video Recording Director Chinmaya Rathore Abstract Part 1 of a quick short tutorial on how to get you started on the free and Opensource Software LibreOffice 7 Impress to create presentations. The latest version of the software can be downloaded from the following link Date 2020 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8pSTF-Lao&list=PLKR_CvN6SDJhm3InrQl6v54M60bP308Lo&index=2 Running Time 29:41 Creating Presentations using LibreOffice Impress Part 2 Type Video Recording Director Chinmaya Rathore Abstract Part 2 of a quick short tutorial on how to get you started on the free and Opensource Software LibreOffice 7 Impress to create presentations. The latest version of the software can be downloaded from the following link Date 2020 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id9sLpmGpBE&list=PLKR_CvN6SDJhm3InrQl6v54M60bP308Lo&index=3 Running Time 35:57 Creating Presentations using LibreOffice Impress Part 3 Type Video Recording Director Chinmaya Rathore Abstract Part 3 of the open source LibreOffice 7 Impress Tutorial by Dr. Chinmaya S Rathore explaining photo album, custom shows, outlining and commenting Date 2020 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv0U6C6Ao6U&list=PLKR_CvN6SDJhm3InrQl6v54M60bP308Lo&index=4 Running Time 27:21 Creating Presentations using LibreOffice Impress Part 4 Type Video Recording Director Chinmaya Rathore Abstract This is Part 4 of the LibtreOffice 7 Impress series by Dr. Chinmaya S Rathore which shows two
Advanced: Find & Replace Styles in LibreOffice Writer Type Video Recording Director LO Step by Step Abstract Sometimes, after finishing a document you discover that you need to change a lot. And to change styles you have used. But there it is a tool that can help you in making your life easier. Date 2019 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRm6rr-gFY&list=PLzad0VvGzlSpCGpVY1ckDr-DjWkQ_A4AB&index=174 Running Time 2:37 Apply Hyphenation to a New Style in LibreOffice Writer Type Video Recording Director LO Step by Step Abstract How to easily use hyphenation after using a new style. Date 2019 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-VmDw6jWI&list=PLzad0VvGzlSpCGpVY1ckDr-DjWkQ_A4AB&index=180 Running Time 3:41 Applying Manual Hyphenation in LibreOffice Writer 6.3 Type Video Recording Director LO Step by Step Abstract Sometimes you decide not to use automatic hyphenation. But at some point in a document it seems it is needed. So, this manual hyphenation is just for you. Date 2019 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFw-LAjkWSY&list=PLzad0VvGzlSpCGpVY1ckDr-DjWkQ_A4AB&index=179 Running Time 3:22 AutoCorrect and Word Completion in LibreOffice 6.3 Type Video Recording Director LO Step by Step Abstract Do you want to have less mistakes in your documents? Do you want to type faster some expression that you use more often? In this case this video is for you. Date
10 Things to Do after Installing LibreOffice Type Video Recording Director LO Step by Step Abstract Speed your LibreOffice, change it’s User Interface, change icons colors, change icons styles, use styles, disable java. See more in this video! Date 2020 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArViZ80cPZA&list=PLzad0VvGzlSqs26Awpu4pryaG-y–Jg5m&index=10 Running Time 6:09 Agent 007 Using LibreOffice: the New Redact Option Type Video Recording Director LO Step by Step Abstract Since LibreOffice 6.3 Agent 007 could use LibreOffice to Redact his documents. Watch in this video how can you use this new option in LibreOffice, for the moment just in the Development version. Date 2019 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRg8XPKvCbA&list=PLzad0VvGzlSpCGpVY1ckDr-DjWkQ_A4AB&index=211 Running Time 5:23 Changing the Directory in Terminal Application Type Video Recording Director OS College Abstract The video demonstrates how to change the directory in the Terminal application in Ubuntu 18.04 to point at the DEBS folder in a LibreOffice extraction. It is a required step to install LibreOffice as a DEB. Date 2021 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jtmgor03r0&list=PLK_xio5V3ieNvtpFSGspgIGSBlb17xFok&index=11 Running Time 2:18 Custom Installation of LibreOffice for Windows Type Video Recording Director OS College Abstract This video gives an overview of doing a custom install of LibreOffice, rather than a typical one. Date 2019 Language English URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjj9y1pV4V8&list=PLK_xio5V3ieNvtpFSGspgIGSBlb17xFok&index=4
In 2021, LibreOffice celebrated its eleventh birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2021 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) The Document Foundation announced two major releases of LibreOffice in 2021: version 7.1 on February 3, and version 7.2 on August 19. In addition 13 minor releases were also made available: LibreOffice 7.1.1 – March 4 LibreOffice 7.0.5 – March 12 LibreOffice 7.1.2 – April 1 LibreOffice 7.1.3 – May 6 LibreOffice 7.0.6 – May 13 LibreOffice 7.1.4 – June 10 LibreOffice 7.1.5 – July 22 LibreOffice 7.1.6 – September 9 LibreOffice 7.2.1 – September 16 LibreOffice 7.1.7 – November 4 LibreOffice 7.2.3 – November 25 LibreOffice 7.2.4 and 7.1.8 – December 6 In July, our Quality Assurance community organised a Bug Hunting Session in preparation for the release of LibreOffice 7.2. This was based on the first Release Candidate (RC), and we encouraged technically-minded users to try out the RC and help to identify and fix bugs before the final release. Communication took part on our QA IRC channel, which is
Writer Guide 7.3 comes with the latest updates for LibreOffice Community 7.3 The Documentation team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 7.3. This user guide has been updated from Writer Guide 7.2. It covers changes that are visible in the LibreOffice Writer user interface and additional information from earlier releases, including: Enhancements to Track Changes (Chapter 3). More details are in the Release Notes. Added details about the Print dialog in macOS (Chapter 7). Updated details about Templates dialog (Chapter 10). Updated list terminology in Chapter 11 and anywhere else lists are mentioned. Minor rewording and replacement figures in several chapters. LibreOffice 7.3 Community includes many changes not visible in the user interface. These changes include further improvements in interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, including new features targeted at users migrating from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, or exchanging documents between the two office suites. These improvements include: New handling of change tracking in tables and when text is moved. Performance improvements when opening large DOCX and XLSX/XLSM files, improved rendering speed of some complex documents, and new rendering speed improvements when using the Skia back-end introduced with LibreOffice 7.1. Improvements to import/export filters. ScriptForge
