So we simply tested LibreOffice 7.0 with a number of complex/heavily-formatted files of Microsoft Office, so that we observe how well it can show the files and edit them. And you don’t want your office suite to display it in a horrible way for you. Now, up to the important part of this review, we wanted to see how well is LibreOffice capable of opening Microsoft Office files and manipulating them? This is the important aspect because a lot of people – if not all of them – will have to deal with a Microsoft Office file someday. Compatibility of Microsoft Office and LibreOffice 7.0 You can read more about them from the official release notes if you want. Many other improvements landed in LibreOffice 7.0 for table editing, navigation, image galleries, different languages handling and much more.
You can already encrypt your files in LibreOffice since many versions, too (From the security tab):
Interesting set of compatibility options exist when exporting PDF files. You can also choose to use the new icon theme for macOS from Options -> View:Īnd if you select it, here’s how your writer will look like: The Ribbon-like user interface (Tabbed interface) is there for anyone who wishes to use a UI similar to Microsoft Office: Previously, each menu you would hover could take 0.2-0.5s to display, but now, the process is almost instant and very smooth: A number of bug fixes, performance improvements and language translations were added.įirst of all, one can’t help but notice how navigation in menus of LibreOffice 7.0 became much faster than the previous versions.Basic HiDPI fractional scaling for KDE/Qt5 is now implemented.PDF/UA export support, PDF generation larger than 500cm now supported, XLSX sheet names with more than 31 characters are also now supported.The underlying OpenGL graphics engine in LibreOffice (For Windows) was replaced with the Vulkan-accelerated Skia graphics library, making 2D drawings and the overall rendering of LibreOffice much better and faster.Linux users can also use the icons themes on their Linux distributions if they wish to from the settings manager. New icon themes for both Windows and macOS, making LibreOffice look much better.Support for the ODF 1.3 format, which is an open source format for exporting documents.Opening Microsoft Office Powerpoint presentations became also better in 7.0.This means that documents/spreadsheets/presentations written in LibreOffice will now be better displayed in Microsoft Office. LibreOffice now exports files in the native Microsoft Office 2013/2016/2019 formats instead of depending on the compatibility layer of Microsoft Office 2007.
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