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What about Gnome apps then?

What about Gnome apps then?

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about KDE apps. I went through the default stack of programs available in the desktop environment,…

KDE apps – Any good?

KDE apps – Any good?

What is the one big advantage that Linux distributions have over Windows? If you ask me, that would be the fact that distributions…

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall…

Tag Archives: LibreOffice

LibreOffice 6.2 – de oppresso liber officium

28th February 2019 by dedoimedo 21 comments

The world of documents, spreadsheets and presentations is roughly divided into two. There’s Microsoft Office, and then, there’s everything else. In the second…

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Single-sourcing in LibreOffice

31st January 2019 by Bruce Byfield No comments.

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

23rd June 2017 by Bruce Byfield 3 comments

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?

18th January 2017 by dedoimedo 7 comments

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

31st October 2016 by Bruce Byfield No comments.

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

17th August 2016 by dedoimedo 4 comments

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

30th March 2016 by Bruce Byfield 3 comments

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

1st March 2016 by Paul Brown 3 comments

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

2nd February 2016 by Bruce Byfield 1 comment

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

20th October 2015 by Paul Brown 1 comment

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

17th October 2015 by Bruce Byfield No comments.

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

20th September 2015 by Bruce Byfield 2 comments

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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