LibreOffice 4.4.0 RC2 is released and available for download ( Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Redhat, Mac OS X )

LibreOffice 4.4.0 RC2 is released and available for download ( Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Redhat, Mac OS X )

LibreOffice is an open source productivity suite that provides all the necessary office components for small-business, educational and non-profit organizations. It is a fork of the well-known OpenOffice.org application.

What’s New in version 4.4.0 RC2 :

• Writer:
• Master Document Templates:
• Writer has long had Master Documents. A master document lets you manage large documents, such as a book with many chapters. The master document can be seen as a container for individual LibreOffice Writer files. LibreOffice 4.4 introduces Master Document Templates. These Master Document Templates can be added to the Template Manager and creating a new document based on a Master Document Template creates a Master Document with the same initial content as the Template it is based upon.
• Shapes can have a TextBox:
• Writer shapes can now have a Textbox, meaning that it’s possible to have complex Writer content and full drawinglayer geometry for a shape at the same time. fdo#70942 blog entry
• Improvements to Track Changes:
• The “Accept Change” and “Reject Change” commands now automatically jump to the next change. fdo#83953
• Inclusion of new buttons in the Track Changes toolbar, along with a new set of icons. fdo#83955, fdo#84405
• The track changes menu item in the Edit menu has been renamed from “Changes” to “Track Changes”. fdo#85046
• The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+ Shift+E has been associated with the recording of track changes. fdo#86183
• Style dropdown:
• The style dropdown now has a split menu to edit or update the selected style. fdo#62081
• Line numbering easier to apply for all paragraphs
• Line numbering can now be enabled in a single location, in addition to the already existing per-style method. fdo#84504
• Status bar improvements:
• Page number in the statusbar are more easily understood when page number styles are used. fdo#80617
• Spacing between elements was improved to work better in low-resolution screens and small windows and double-clicking in the blank statusbar field no longer opens the ‘Fields’ dialog. fdo#86018
• Click behaviour was unified so that left-click results in an action or dialog appearing and right-click results in the display of a context menu. fdo#82707
• Tooltips were added to all elements of the statusbar. fdo#82708
• Toolbar improvements:
• The “Standard” and “Formatting” toolbars were reorganized by removing uncommonly used commands and replacing them with frequent features, in order to reduce the need for users to hunt through menus or customize toolbars. Additional buttons have been added to the toolbars, but are hidden by default and can be enabled by using the “Customize” option. fdo#81475
• Calc:
• Direct conversion of formulas into static values
• A new feature was added to convert formula cells into static values (via the menu Tools ▸ Cell Contents ▸ Formula to Value). Previously, you would need to cut the cells and paste them back into place to have the same outcome.
• Formula engine:
• Added AGGREGATE spreadsheet function for Excel interoperability. fdo#73148
• Toolbar improvements:
• The “Standard” and “Formatting” toolbars were reorganized by removing uncommonly used commands and replacing them with frequent features, in order to reduce the need for users to hunt through menus or customize toolbars. Additional buttons have been added to the toolbars, but are hidden by default and can be enabled by using the toolbar right-click context menu “Customize Toolbar…” option or Tools ▸ Customize…. fdo#85594
• Impress and Draw:
• See also: GUI: Tab changes
• Text of Master View Object Previews:
• In Slide Master view, the text of the presentation object previews is now read-only. Changing the text of these previews has never affected the objects based on the styles that the presentation object preview. To add or hide a level to the outline numbering preview, now you can right-click on the last line to display a menu to add/hide another level.
• Toggling bullets on and off in slide master view in the outline preview via “Bullets On/Off” now truly toggles on/off the bullets of the Outline styles. In the past this only affected the preview itself, leaving the outline styles unchanged. Now it correctly affects outline levels in the normal view.
• Select and toggle off master elements directly via Delete:
• In Slide Master view, master elements which Impress allows the user to remove via View ▸ Master ▸ Master elements can now be removed by direct deletion of the matching placeholder in the Master View preview. In other words, to remove a footer, header, slide number or date/time, select the corresponding box in Master View and press Delete.
• OpenGL transitions:
• Implemented and enabled for Windows.
• Improved implementation based on new OpenGL framework in vcl for Linux, Windows and OS X.
• Page Title field:
• New field: Page Title in Insert ▸ Field ▸ Page Title. fdo#47302
• Inherit current style of cells when inserting New row/column in table
• When we have a table in impress, have modified a cell style and then add a new row or column it now inherits the style of the current row/column for the new one instead of using default values. fdo#60712
• Password for editing:
• It is now possible to save an Impress/Draw file read-only and require a password to modify it. fdo#63483
• Text background color:
• Draw supports background color for text in frames and captions. blog entry
• Printing: use specified paper size:
• Draw now uses the paper size specified in page formatting with printing. fdo#63905
• Zoom Mode button:
• Creation of a new zoom mode button that is able to zoom in, zoom out and pan with the use of Ctrl and Shift. fdo#55903 fdo#83572
• Toolbar improvements:
• The default toolbars were reorganized to bring frequent used features to the toolbars. fdo#84909
• Menubar improvements:
• The View menu was reorganized to better unify its items similar to Writer and Calc. fdo#86209

Thanks to its CMIS standard, LibreOffice allows users to easily collaborate with online document storage and CMS (Content Management System) systems. Being one of the fastest growing open source office suite in the world, LibreOffice is now adopted by many Linux operating systems and it is our number one choice for ordinary desktop office tasks.

LibreOffice 4.4.0 RC2 is released and available for download ( Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Redhat, Mac OS X)

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