There are many changes that have been brewing for the LibreOffice 25.8 office suite release due out in August. Some of the highlights for this release include:
- Various performance improvements for loading Writer documents and DOCX files.
- LibreOffice Calc has performance improvements for opening of Microsoft Excel (XLSX) ifles and various other performance optimizations to this spreadsheet program.
- A variety of new functions were added to the Calc spreadsheet program like WRAPCOLS, TOCOL, TOROW, EXPAND, DROP, CHOOSECOLS, VSTACK, and others.
- LibreOffice Writer adds a command to insert a paragraph break before tables.
- The Ctrl + Shift + F2 command shortcut was added for converting fields into plain text.
- LibreOffice 25.8 brings a new application-wide viewer model for opening documents in read-only mode.
- Support for importing encrypted hybrid PDFs.
- Various spell check dictionary and thesaurus improvements.
- Removing support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.
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- Various performance improvements for loading Writer documents and DOCX files.
- LibreOffice Calc has performance improvements for opening of Microsoft Excel (XLSX) ifles and various other performance optimizations to this spreadsheet program.
- A variety of new functions were added to the Calc spreadsheet program like WRAPCOLS, TOCOL, TOROW, EXPAND, DROP, CHOOSECOLS, VSTACK, and others.
- LibreOffice Writer adds a command to insert a paragraph break before tables.
- The Ctrl + Shift + F2 command shortcut was added for converting fields into plain text.
- LibreOffice 25.8 brings a new application-wide viewer model for opening documents in read-only mode.
- Support for importing encrypted hybrid PDFs.
- Various spell check dictionary and thesaurus improvements.
- Removing support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.