LibreOffice 7.6 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Highlights of LibreOffice 7.6 include support for zoom gestures on touchpads in the main view, support for document themes, along with the ability to import and export theme definitions for ODF and OOXML documents, as well as many improvements to font handling, especially for right-to-left scripts, CJK, and Asian alphabets.
For LibreOffice Writer, this release introduces a new Page Number Wizard in the Insert menu to easily insert page numbers in the header or footer, an updated Paragraph Style dropdown in the Formatting toolbar that now displays a list of styles used in the document, and highlighting of used paragraph and character styles, as well as of direct formatting in text.
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Announcement of LibreOffice 7.6 Community
LibreOffice 7.6 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, and the last based on the historical release numbering scheme (first digit for release cycle, second digit for major release), is immediately available from www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux. Starting from 2024, TDF will adopt calendar based-release numbering, so the next major release will be LibreOffice 2024.02 in February 2024.
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LibreOffice 7.6 is Now Available: Here's What's New
LibreOffice is a popular open-source software suite, serving as a replacement for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other applications. It's a great option if you want to edit documents and spreadsheets without paying a subscription for Microsoft 365, especially since LibreOffice has more features and supports more file formats than many other free alternatives. The Document Foundation has now released LibreOffice 7.6 across all platforms, making the office suite even better.
LibreOffice 7.6 isn't a groundbreaking update, so if you were hoping for more interface options or wild new online features, you won't find them here. The Document Foundation said in its announcement, "After twelve years and five release cycles – code cleaning, code refactoring, polishing the user interface, extending to new hardware and software platforms, and optimizing interoperability with OOXML to support users – it is increasingly difficult to develop entirely new features, so most of them are refinements or improvements of existing ones." However, document themes are now supported across all applications, and there are more fixes for opening Microsoft Office documents.
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LibreOffice 7.6 Released, This is What’s New
This update lands exactly on schedule, some 6 months after the LibreOffice 7.5 release (which included visual tweaks, major PDF export enhancements, and other changes). LibreOffice 7.6 sees its devs build out further to deliver fixes, finesse, and a decent drop of new features.
Keen to learn more? I know you are, so let’s dive in!
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LibreOffice 7.6 Is Here, Bringing Improvements Across All Its Apps
LibreOffice, maintained by The Document Foundation, is a comprehensive open-source office suite of productivity software applications encompassing word processing, spreadsheet creation, presentation design, drawing, and database management.
With each new release, it continues to enhance its suite of applications, striving to provide users with a comprehensive and efficient platform for all their document-related needs.
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LibreOffice 7.6 Community released [LWN.net]
The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 7.6 Community. It is the last release using the existing numbering scheme as the office suite will move to date-based release numbers starting with LibreOffice 24.2 in February, 2024. Highlights of this release include support for document themes, including import and export of them, a new navigation panel for Impress and Draw, zoom-gesture support, font-handling improvements, and lots more; the release notes have all the details.
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LibreOffice releases new versions for Windows, macOS and Linux
A statement from The Document Foundation, the body that oversees the project, said there were versions for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple and Intel processors), and Linux.
This release is the last to use traditional version numbering: first digit for release cycle, second digit for major release.
From next year, TDF will adopt calendar-based release numbering: the next major release will be LibreOffice 2024.02 in February 2024.
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LibreOffice 7.6 Releases With Document Themes, Navigation Panel for Slides, and More
LibreOffice 7.6 is the next major upgrade for the open-source office suite.
With its previous LibreOffice 7.5 release, the developers unveiled new app icons and feature upgrades. And, this time, it includes a good set of new abilities.
Let us take a look at what's new with the release.
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LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity
LibreOffice, formerly known as OpenOffice, before that called StarOffice, and which evolved from a German CP/M word processor called StarWriter, is the leading open source desktop office suite. StarWriter was released in 1985, so the product family is now nearly 40 years old – considerably older than Linux itself. Its history is so long that when The Reg reported that Sun was acquiring Star Division and making the product free last century, this was still a young publication, newly moved from email newsletter to website. (You can tell by how short those stories are.)