LibreOffice is a free and open-source cross-platform office software suite, developed by the Document Foundation. It is the default office suite in many Linux distributions.
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Is there a subversion plugin available for LibreOffice/OpenOffice similar to MagnetSVN?
I recently came across the plugin, MagnetSVN, for MS Office which allows for svn interaction directly from MS Word. I'm looking for something similar for LibreOffice and/or OpenOffice.
I came across ...
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Custom CSV (.csv) filter for OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice?
Is it possible to create a some kind of 'custom CSV filter' for OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice spreadsheet program. What I need is to have the program to use predefined CSV settings for loading and ...
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How to configure own shortcuts for styles?
When I Ctrl+B a selected text, it will become bold. Alas, this style is directly formatted, which means it gets lost once I default via Ctrl+M. Yet whenever I reset the whole document, I only want it ...
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How to prepare organization chart in Libre Office?
It is very difficult to draw an organization chart in Libreoffice. Is there a function similar to Microsoft word or excel?
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Libre office: How to format title pages for book (avoiding the missing blank-page when pdf-file exported)
How do you set up the i, ii, iii, iv... followed by the 1, 2, 3, 4... pages of the usual book format in Libre office? What is the logic of it?
Also how do you avoid the automatic BLANK PAGE appearing ...
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Attempting to open TSV file in Libreoffice calc results in opened by writer
I have been working with tsv files for months, but I have one file that refuses to be opened in LibreOffice calc. It instead brings it up in writer. This behavior is consistent across command line and ...
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Using LibreOffice and having problems, copying details
A staff member in our office is having trouble pasting details from a spreadsheet {In any format} to a template in .ott format.
When pasting and details from the spreadsheet, it removes some of the ...
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Where can I get pre-reform spelling correction for Brazilian Portuguese in LibreOffice?
I've just made the change from Open Office to Libre Office (Windows 7), and have a problem with Brazilian Portuguese spelling.
Libre Office comes with dictionaries for the recently-reformed (some say ...
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Batch Conversion to PDF with LibreOffice in Mac
I have LibreOffice installed on my new Mac. In Ubuntu you can directly access LibreOffice via command line. How do you access LibreOffice in mac via command line ?
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How to apply a page style to a specific set of pages?
I want to split my document in three parts.
The first part is the first document which has the style "First Page". The other ones have "Default". Now, I want the appendix to have the "Index" page ...
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How can I get the “After the Deadline” Libre Office extension to work
I have installed the "After the Deadline" extension for LibreOffice 3.6.3, but it does not pick up any grammatical errors, either as a wavy blue line while I type, or with a complete spell check of ...
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Document structure navigation in LibreOffice/OpenOffice
Is there "Document structure" toolbar in Libre Office or Open Office?
I would like to navigate documents inside Libre Office or Open Office by document structure (table of content) like I can do in ...
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ODBC Query cannot be executed because it is too complex?
I have a CSV file which I am using as a database with LibreOffice DB.
What I'm doing is explained in detail in this answer.
I can do some operations, but when I try to enter the following into the ...
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E-Learning Web Authoring
The company I work for creates online courses for operation and maintenance of various equipment. Currently, we write the courses in Word. We have an XML schema that is applied to the document. The ...
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MSI installer: Run in English instead of the system language
How can I make an MSI installer run in English?
I'm trying to install LibreOffice on a machine running a Korean version of Windows XP. I don't know Korean. I haven't used Windows with any frequency ...
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Querying DB2 view from Libreoffice Base
I've created a view in DB2 that has the information I need for labels that I was hoping to print out from LibreOffice. When I query the view from the console ("SELECT * FROM ADDRBOOK.LABELS"), I get ...
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Libreoffice won't let me have a read-only ComboBox
I have a database table with some entries. I want to display all the fields of this table as a ComboBox. I want the user to be able to select this any entry in this ComboBox without modifying the ...
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LibreOffice lock files and Dropbox
I use Dropbox for collaborative work between Windows workstations. One of the use is to share LibreOffice documents. Concurrent editings are normally forbidden by LibreOffice by creating a lock file ...
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unoconv: export Excel file to PDF without any scripting
How to hide page header and footer during the Excel file export with unoconv?
I've tried to use a template (narrow margins, disabled header, disabled footer), but it does not work. I mean: margins ...
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Creating a template for a Writer-based calendar (diary)
I'm currently working on a calendar for the new year – a daily planner, a diary! Something for GTD (Getting things done) based on a diary with planner options. It is created in OpenOffice or ...
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How do I prevent LibreOffice update from reassigning the default program for .doc?
When using Ninite to silently update Windows XP computers in a lab environment, LibreOffice reassigns the default program for the .doc file type from MS Office 2010 to LibreOffice. How can this be ...
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Creating fillable PDF form with dynamically updated fields
Is there a way to create fillable PDF forms where a set of fields gets their data when one of the fields is filled out?
The normal use case would be application form, where your name or membership ...
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Typing math formulas in LaTex and getting them in MathType format?
I am asked to type some math formulas that can work in Microsoft Office and MathType equation editor.
But I only have access to Ubuntu 12.04 near me, there is LibreOffice available under Ubuntu as ...
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OpenOffice, LibreOffice and NeoOffice all crashes on startup on OSX LIon
I tried all new versions of LibreOffice, OpenOffice, NeoOffice. When I install them without any problems and then I try to launch them, I get the following error:
Process: soffice.bin [1178]
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Is there an easy way to view SVN changes in the OpenOffice/LibreOffice document compare view?
I store documents in a subversion repository. I would like to be able to see either my local yet to be checked-in modifications, or else the differences between two particular revisions, using the ...
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Add-in for Libre Office Impress - Export to SWF with control buttons
I need to export *.pps, *.ppt, *.ppsx, and *.pptx files to swf files. In Windows I used iSpring for Power Point, and worked well.
I am searching for an add-in for Libre Office Impress (for Linux). ...
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How are the 2010 OpenDocument Text (.odt) from OpenOffice and the 2012 one from LibreOffice different?
As you probably know when you're reading this question, an .odt file is just a .zip file containing some folders and .xml files.
I used to appreciate this, for I could make a document with keywords ...
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LibreOffice / Openoffice or Scribus for book project?
I want to create a book and publish it later with an ondemand book printing provider.
I read that Libreoffice 3.4 and 3.5 have some more DTP features but dont know if I should take Scribus or ...
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Exporting UTF-8 text from LibreOffice without byte order mark
In LibreOffice, if I save a document as file type "encoded text" and select "Unicode (UTF-8)" as the encoding, it always writes a byte order mark (BOM) at the start of the text. It does this even when ...
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Different fonts for different weights in OpenOffice.org
I want the default font to be Gentium, but its bold is incomplete, so I want bold and bold-italic to be Gentium Basic. I want to have it set as the default font every time and not manually per usage.
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Convert HTML table into a native LibreOffice table
Sorry, I'm not quite sure where should I put this question.
I've visited ask.liberoffice.com, but I think it has different (although similar) mechanism to stack-overflow, and can't use my ...
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How to print directly to default printer in classical Linux applications?
It's kind of lost the print directly action in many applications like Firefox and Evince. This missing option is supposed to send the print job directly to the default printer with the default options ...
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How do I set the LibreOffice 4.0 Calc interface CTL font?
I use LibreOffice 4.0.x on Windows 7. When I was in Windows XP, the Hebrew font used in the Calc interface - for field values and for tab names for example - was Tahoma. Now it's David (or maybe David ...
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Reshaping csv data with LibreOffice
Say I have a csv file with following data format:
ID, Name, Gender, Q1
1, ABC, Male, "A1;A2"
2, ACB, Male, "A2;A3"
3, BAC, Female, "A1"
I would like to transform it into following format so that my ...
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init.d script for OpenOffice / LibreOffice headless does not stop process
I am using Ubuntu and found this init.d script for LibreOffice headless.
Problem is that it does not seem to be stopping the process when asked to "stop". Any help greatly appreciated.
Two other ...
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How to reduce the number of spell-check languages/dialects
Even when I install Libre-Office (3.6.1) in advanced mode and only select Dutch, German, English and French as spell-check languages, I still find many more dialects (German-German + Austrian-German + ...
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oDATA Explorer/Connector for Linux
Is there an open source / free oDATA explorer that either:
provides a stand alone oDATA viewer / editor,
plugs in to LibreOffice, or
a website that provides a nice ODATA interface (no SilverLight).
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How to disable LibreOffice from adding itself to start menu?
LibreOffice keeps pinning itself to the start menu even after I forcibly remove it. How can I disable this annoying "feature"?
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Can't change printer input tray from LibreOffice
I had CentOS 6.2 installed which came with OpenOffice, and in OO I was able to choose printer tray for input paper. My choice was respected.
Now CentOS got upgraded and I've got LibreOffice 3.4.5. ...
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LibreOffice 3.5 General Input/Output error on WYSE thinclient
While trying to open a file by double-clicking on it, I get an error, saying General Input/Output Error. If I open the file from the Menu, it opens fine. I am using a WYSE thinclient running Windows ...
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LibreOffice prevents SD card from being ejected
When I try to eject the SD card which is generally always in my Windows 7 netbook using either the context menu or the "Safely remove hardware and eject media" icon the computer tells me it can't ...
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What's the proper way to use each style in office suites?
In LibreOffice 3.3, the default range of paragraph styles include the following:
"Addresse, Bibliography, Caption, Complimentary Close, Contents…"
and character styles include:
"Bullets, ...
