Hi folks,

Some interesting news we have here, that Oracle halting commercial interest for OpenOffice. And at the mean time we have beta 1 for LibreOffice, this is now great news. Some of the features are listed below for this release:

• added navigation buttons to writer
• Replaced unhide text button by icon buttons
• Mouse wheel scrolls whole slides
• Updated slide sorter icons
• allow ‘select as you type’ aka ‘quick selection’
• new ‘animated images’ for Throbber controls
• enable human icon theme
• treat Excel number format ‘General’ as standard format in Calc
• change the default sheet print option to “print entire sheet” in Calc
• don’t toggle the calc formula bar when activating and deactivating a chart in Calc
• Allow unused master pages to be deleted in master pages control in Impress
• enable full width by default for ‘Default’ style in Impress

Download it from here.

openSUSE users can follow these instructions, but i would recommend to read in openSUSE forums 1st and install from any beta repos.

More read at linuxjournal.com

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