Software Update: LibreOffice 7.1.0

The Document Foundation has released version 7.1 of LibreOffice. This open source office package originated as a fork of OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation program Impress, drawing program Draw, database program Base and Formula, an application for making scientific notations.

In version 7.1 we find, among other things, improved support for docx files and the first time the program is started, it asks what you want the user interface to look like. Furthermore, the free consumer version will henceforth be referred to as the LibreOffice Community Edition. The complete release notes are up this page In short, these are the main improvements:

General

• New dialog to select the User Interface flavor, aiming to pick the right UI based on each user’s own preferences at first start
• Improved search for a matching printer paper size for the printed document
• Show all supported files when adding a new extension in Extension Manager
• Print Preview is now updated asynchronously, to not block UI when adjusting settings in Print Dialog
• Additions Dialog: to search, get and install extensions with one-click

writer

• New Style Inspector to display the attributes of Paragraph and Character Styles, and manually formatted (Direct Formatting) properties
• Default anchor for newly added images can be set using Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice Writer
• Ability to detect Unicode, even if the imported text file does not have the BOM (Byte Order Mark)
• Significant speed improvement of find/replace operations

calc

• Added an option to manage pasting with Enter key, which can be switched on/off in the Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice Calc ▸ General dialog
• Added option to select items in Autofilter window clicking on all item’s row, in addition to the checkbox
• Significant speed improvement of Autofilter and find/replace operations

Impress & Draw

• Possibility to add visible signatures to existing PDF files in Draw
• Possibility to change animations for several objects at once in Impress
• Addition of “Pause/Resume” and “Exit”buttons to Presenter’s Screen
• Addition of realistic soft blurred shadows to objects
• Addition of new physics based animation capabilities and new animation effect presets that use them

macro

• ScriptForge libraries: an extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts