Download LibreOffice 7.5.0

The Document Foundation has released version 7.5.0 of LibreOffice. This open source office package was created as a spin-off from OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation program Impress, drawing program Draw, database program Base and Formula, an application for creating scientific notations. In version 7.5, the dark mode has been improved, the icons have been refreshed, the home screen can now be filtered by document type and the fonts can now be integrated on macOS. More information is in the release notes to find. These are briefly the most important improvements:

General

• Major improvements to dark mode support
• New application and MIME-type icons, more colorful and vibrant
• The Start Center can filter documents by type
• An improved version of the Single Toolbar UI has been implemented
• PDF Export improved with several fixes, and new options and features
• Support for font embedding on macOS
• Improvements to the Font Features dialog with several new options
• Addition of a zoom slider at the bottom right of the macro editor

Writer

• Bookmarks have been significantly improved, and are also much more visible
• Objects can be marked as decorative, for better accessibility
• New types added to content controls, which also improve the quality of PDF forms
• A new automatic accessibility checker option has been added to the Tools menu
• Initial machine translation is available, based on DeepL translate APIs
• Several spell checking improvements

Calc

• Data tables are now supported in charts
• The Function Wizard now lets you search by descriptions
• “Spell out” number formats have been added
• Conditional formatting conditions are now case insensitive
• Correct behavior when entering numbers with a single prefix quote (‘)

Impress & Draw

• New set of default table styles, and creation of table styles
• Table styles can be customized, saved as master elements and exported
• Objects can be dragged-and-dropped in the navigator
• It is now possible to crop inserted videos in the slide and still play them
• The presenter console can also run as a normal window instead of fullscreen