And even though that bug (excessive CPU use) wasn’t a complete showstopper and only cropped up in certain documents in the 64-bit Windows version alone, it got diagnosed and fixed pretty quickly since it qualified as “major.” In seven or eight years, I’m pretty sure I’ve only had to roll back *once* (to an earlier Fresh release) because of a new bug. I’m not a bleeding-edge, beta-testing kind of guy, but I’ve consistently found Fresh releases’ new features, improvements, and â€” sorry for the all-caps, but this is important â€” EARLIER FIXES OF LONGSTANDING BUGS AND ANNOYANCES THAT ARE STILL PRESENT IN STILL to be worth the odd NEW glitch, bug, or regression. The developers have published a video on YouTube in which they highlight new features of the LibreOffice 7.1 release.

Windows: Support for building LibreOffice native for Windows ARM64.

General: Proofing tools and language support improvements for various languages, including French, English (GB), Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

General: Support for English Kenya and English Hong Kong locales.

General: new dialog to customize the user interface on first start.

Impress & Draw: New physics based animations and effects.

Impress & Draw: Soft blurred shadows support for objects.

Impress & Draw: Presentation console has exit, and pause/resume buttons.

Impress & Draw: Change animations for several objects at once in Impress.

Calc: Paste with Enter-key can be disabled under Tools > Options > LibreOffice Calc > General.

Writer: Find/Replace operations performance improved.

Writer: Style Inspector added to display formatting attributes.

Writer: Table formulas for Word interoperability addedÂ (PRODUCT, ABS, SIGN, COUNT).

Adds a button with arrow near any selected heading in documents, a click folds all content up to the next heading. Can be enabled under Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced > Show outline content visibility button in Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > View.

Writer: new experimental feature 'outline folding mode'.

Writer: can detect Unicode even if imported text files do not have a BOM.

Writer: support for locale-independent templates.

Here is a short overview of important ones: The program loads Microsoft Office formats among other supported file types.Īll of the Office Suite's main modules have received updates. The new version improves interoperability with Microsoft Office's main file formats DOCX, XLSX and PPTX, including better DOCX import and export filters. LibreOffice 7.1 Community introduces new features and changes to the Office suite.

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