LibreOffice 7.6 Community Highlights
GENERAL
- Support for zoom gestures when using touchpads in the main view.
- Support for document themes, and import and export of theme definitions for ODF and OOXML documents.
- Many improvements to font handling, especially for right-to-left scripts, CJK and other Asian alphabets.
WRITER
- New Page Number Wizard in the Insert menu, for easy one-step insertion of the page number in the header/footer.
- The Paragraph Style dropdown in the Formatting toolbar shows a list of styles used in the document, rather than the full list of the available styles.
- Tables of Figures can be generated more flexibly based on paragraph styles, and not only from categories or object names.
- Bibliography entries can be edited directly from a bibliography table, and bibliography marks hyperlink by default to the matching row in a bibliography table.
- Highlighting for used paragraph and character styles and direct formatting in text.
- Phrase checking: multi-word dictionary items of Hunspell and custom dictionaries are now accepted.
CALC
- Number format: “?” is now supported when exporting to ODF to represent an integer digit, replaced by blank if it is a non significant zero, and decimals for formats in seconds without truncation like [SS].00 are now accepted.
- Spreadsheets copied to another document now retain a user-defined print range.
- Solver settings are saved with documents, and page styles are exported even if they are not in use.
- Support for drawing styles for shapes and comments, including a dedicated style for comments that makes it possible to customize the default look and text formatting of new comments.
- New compact layout for pivot tables.
- Autofilter support for sorting by colour. Filter/sort by color considers colours set by number format.
- The Import Text dialog (as CSV file or as unformatted text) has a new option to not detect number in scientific notation (only if “Detect Special Numbers” is off).
IMPRESS & DRAW
- New navigation panel for switching slides while viewing a presentation (option is enabled by flagging a checkbox in Slide Show Settings).
- Objects can now be listed in front to back order in the Navigator, with the top-most object at the top of the list.
- Support for free text annotations to PDFium import, plus support for ink, free text and polygon/polyline annotations in PDFium export.
- Modified the auto-fitting text scaling algorithm to work in a way similar to MS Office. Text scaling now separates scaling for space (paragraph and line) and scaling fonts, where space scaling can be 100%, 90% and 80%, and font scaling is rounded to the nearest point size. Horizontal spacing (bullets, indents) is not scaled anymore.
- Several improvements to font management for CJK and Arabic languages.
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