Single-sourcing in LibreOffice
LibreOffice may seem like just another word processor, but looks can deceive. A case in point is the ability to single-source, using features…
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LibreOffice: Professional Typography Fully Arrives
Three decades ago, StarDivision, the ancestor of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, was designed as an intermediate desktop publisher. However, many LibreOffice improvements are designed…
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SoftMaker Office 2016 – Your alternative to LibreOffice?
Depending on how you look at it, the world of office suites for Linux is either very rich or very poor. As the rather…
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LibreOffice and the Literate Art of Bullet Lists
For most people, literacy means mastery of upper and lower case letters. However, there are a number of symbols used in everyday writing…
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Open365 – Clouding with style
Office, suite, cloud. Sounds familiar. Google Docs. Yup. Microsoft Office 365. Yup. LibreOffice. No. Wait, what? Buzzwords around modern technology concepts are all…
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LibreOffice Logic
When you switch to LibreOffice, you can usually assume that all the features available in other office suites are available. They might have…
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Bruce Byfield Interview: Designing With LibreOffice
Our colleague Bruce has a book coming out! It’s called Designing with LibreOffice. It tackles the subject of how to make documents look…
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Calligra Suite: The Other Free Office Suite
Calligra Suite is a mature office suite, with a solid set of basic applications, as well as an integrated, often innovative set of…
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LibreOffice officially made available for all UK Government agencies nationwide
The Collabora flavour of LibreOffice aimed at the public sector, officially rebranded GovOffice, will allow agencies to deploy the free office suite, leading…
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LibreOffice Tip: Making an A4/Letter Size Template
In most of the world, the standard paper size for printing is A4. However, in North America, the standard size is Letter. These…
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LibreOffice Tip: Creating marginalia and sideheads
Marginalia are to the sides of a document what headers and footers are to its top and bottom. Marginalia allow you to make…
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LibreOffice extensions – Leclerc, we have a problem
Why Leclerc? Because Houston sounds American, and Leclerc sounds more French, and Libre is sort of French, ergo title. The reason why we’ve…
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