Welcome Juan José González, TDF’s new Web Technology Engineer!

Here at The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice community, we have many websites and services: this blog, the LibreOffice website, our wiki, the extensions website, Weblate and many more. To improve them and keep them up-to-date, TDF now has a new Web Technology Engineer! So let’s get to know him… Tell us a bit about yourself! My name is Juan José and I am from México. I moved from my beautiful hometown to Guadalajara nearly thirteen years ago looking for a good job as a developer and I fell in love with the city. In Guadalajara I met my wife, my friends and many free software enthusiasts. Since the first day, I realized that there were local communities around free software so I like to keep in contact with them, and contribute with technical talks about various topics. I studied a masters degree in Computer Science, where I got interested in the semantic web and the automated reasoning discipline behind it. I’ve been working as a web developer for more than a decade now. I am so happy that I found this position at The Document Foundation – I am determined to contribute as much as I

LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4 is released

The new Calc Guide 7.4 bring updated information for users on the latest LibreOffice 7.4 release. Skip Masonsmith and Kees Kriek of the LibreOffice Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.4. The guide is for beginner to advanced users of Calc, the spreadsheet component of LibreOffice. The book introduces the features and functions of LibreOffice Calc. It is not a tutorial on using spreadsheets. Some chapters assume familiarity with basic spreadsheet usage when describing how to use Calc. “It has been fantastic to join the LibreOffice documentation community of technical writing experts. As I worked on the Calc Guide 7.4 updates, I was well supported by the team to ensure the best outcome for everyone. It was a great experience and I look forward to working on more guides with the team.” said Skip Masonsmith, Calc Guide 7.4 coordinator. The teamwork effort of Skip and Kees allowed to release the Calc Guide 7.4 in record time. The team decided to skip the Calc Guide 7.3 and merged it into the latest release 7.4. The guide is available to download at the Documentation website and at the LibreOffice Bookshelf website. Both PDF and

Community Member Monday: Peter Schofield

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.

LibreOffice Impress Videos

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

LibreOffice Writer Videos

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

LibreOffice Videos

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