LibreOffice is a free and open-source cross-platform productivity suite. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet creator, presentation editor, database manager, diagramming and charting tool, and equation editor.
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Is there a way to create a document specific dictionary in LibreOffice
I writing a document with a words who are specific to that document (for instance names of programs). In order to check the document for errors, one uses a spell checker. Instead of ignoring these ...
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code highlight extension for Libre Office writer
I recently wrote a repport for school with a lot of code in it. The only way I found to wrok was to highlight it with STRONG and that is really quite ugly. So is there a code highlightning extension ...
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How do I get LibreOffice back to normal? (13.04)
On opening LibreOffice recently, it's been looking like this, like something from Windows 98:
It's similar to this on all LibreOffice applications. It's not purely aesthetic either, they also all ...
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How to downgrade from LibreOffice 4.0 to 3.6?
How to "properly" downgrade LibreOffice versions deals with a downgrade from 3.5 to 3.4.*. Is there any way to nicely downgrade LibreOffice 4.0 to 3.6? The latter is not in the package ...
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Menus of LibreOffice cannot be handled with KDE appmenu in Kubuntu 13.04
After installing Kubuntu 13.04, LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 worked, but the menus looked without borders and flat, and if I tried to use appmenu (or appmenu button) the applications were not affected (the ...
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Remove any third party packages from former libreoffice installation
After recent updates the global menu dissapeared as mentioned in this question (Libre Office shows blank menu and then crashes). I tried to file a bug report by typing out
ubuntu-bug libreoffice
A ...
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libreoffice text missing in global menu
I have installed the latest version of libreoffice a while ago and I just updated ubuntu 12.04. When I opened the libreoffice document, the text in the globalmenu is missing and you only see the ...
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Libre Office shows blank menu and then crashes [closed]
When I move mouse pointer over the Libre Office roll-up menu ("File" etc. in Writer, Calc, ...) and try to access arbitrary item of the menu the following happen:
menu is blank (no text)
after a ...
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LibreOffice Calc - Protected Cells in XLS resulting in unmodifiable document in Linux
I received a document from work the other day, which I am required to fill out and return to them. It's a XLS file, created on Windows using MS Office. When I opened it on my version of LibreOffice ...
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ibus not working in all applications but not in Libreoffice [duplicate]
I have recently installed Kubuntu 13.04 and previously i was using ubuntu 12.04. After I installed IBus and Libreoffice and my local languages I cannot enable kannada in Libreoffice. All other ...
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App Install Problems to 13.04
Has Ubuntu 13.04 a new set of installation procedures from 12.04, and what are they please? An install of 13.04 has problems with certain installs of software, all that install correctly to a load ...
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How do I disable presenter console in Libreoffice 4
I am enjoying libreoffice 4, but don't want to have presenter console on because we do multiple things during a presentation, and the console window blocks out any option for switching windows or ...
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How can I tie an alert to a LIbra database?
I want to know how to tie an "alert" or notification to a column in a LibreOffice database table.
I'm a new Linux user and am working with a LibreOffice database. In the near future I intend to put ...
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how to print PDF with CMYK color profile?
I would like to print to PDF documents from LO Writer but with CMYK color profiles. How can I achieve this?
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Is there any eraser button in libreoffice
I know this looks like an idiotic questions. But I need to know. Before shifting to Ubuntu in Microsoft word theres a eraser button in doc menu which I used several times. But in Ubuntu libreoffice I ...
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LibreOffice with Ubuntu 13.04 doesn't work [closed]
LibreOffice doesn't work in Ubuntu 13.04. I had 12.10 for a few weeks and then decided to upgrade to 13.04 hoping that it would be fixed. It's start up screen will pop up and it will get about half ...
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LibreOffice 4.03 compatibility with MS Office 2010 docs [duplicate]
I apologize for the repetitiveness of this question, but I just yesterday decided to use Ubuntu 13.04 as my only operating system and am trying to figure a few things out. No, I don't mean figuring ...
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LibreOffice Base 3.5: no Report Builder
I have tried installing Base several times and have read the Wikipedia information about the report builder -- and still cannot get it. I want to use a MySQL database and LibreOffice Base to generate ...
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LibreOffice menus don't highlight [closed]
I don't know why, but in LibreOffice, menus don't highlight. This is the only program whitch is affected. It is not a huge issue, but I often use the menus with the keyboard, and without highlighting, ...
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LibreOffice Writer Styles
Is there anyway to easyly manage styles on LibreOffice Writer ? For instance, by installing a add-on ?
When I was using Word, it was really intuitive to use differents styles, manage them and edit ...
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Libre Office menu does not show submenus automatically
I've just update my libreoffice 4.0.2.2 to 4.0.3.3.... When I start Writer, Impress or Calc, the first time I click on any main menu it does not show submenus automatically (I recorded problem using ...
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Ub1304 has install problems with Libre Office and others that install well to 1204 [closed]
Ubuntu 13.04 downloaded and installed and updated this day has problems with certain installs of software, all that install correctly to 12.04.
Google Chrome installed from the Google site dot deb ...
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How can I update LibreOffice to 4.0.3?
My version of LibreOffice is 4.0.2.2. and 4.0.3 was released three days ago.
Should I add PPA in order to get updated or my Ubuntu 13.04 will update automatically after few days?
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LibreOffice PPA in 12.04 update?
I added ppa:libreoffice/ppa to my 12.04 install so I could install LO 4, and my only question is: Will LO update through the ppa by itself when a new version is out, or will I have to do it manually?
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How to import a pdf in libreoffice? under ubuntu, all pages are blank
I have some .pdf generated by a scanner, that I want to import in LibreOffice and do some small editing. The PDF has only one object per page, a page-size image.
If I open it in LibreOffice under ...
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How do I Reset Libreoffice User Preference?
In order to get rid of some persistent problem, I have decided to completely remove libreoffice preferences from my machine and then recreate it. I know that user preferences are in this ...
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How to edit , read kannada documents created on microsoft word with Nudi Ekabhashe fonts on ubuntu? And vice versa?
How to read, edit Kannada documents created on Libreoffice with Unicode fonts (kedage lohit etc) on Microsoft word in Windows.How to ensure inter-operability in both ways?
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libre office ls: error initializing month strings 13.04
I'm trying to start libre office writer up, but it doesn't do anything. I started it from the terminal as root and it showed me this:
ls: error initializing month strings
/usr/bin/libreoffice: 49: ...
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LibreOffice crashes (or hangs) 12.10 and 13.04
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 several months ago, but LibreOffice was entirely unusable. Whenever I opened a document, spreadsheet, etc. it would crash or hang the desktop. I waited for Ubuntu 13.04, ...
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LibreOffice global menu not working (ubuntu 13.04) [closed]
There is a BUG on ubuntu 13.04 with libreoffice 4, the global menu and HUF do not work correctly.
I use ubuntu 13.04 (I intalled the BETA 2, a week before the final release)
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LibreOffice 4.0 doesn't show modules writer, calc, etc anymore
I haven't used it for about 2 weeks and today when I wanted to start and .odt file I found out that it doesn't work anymore. I can't find Writer and the rest of them in the search lense but the files ...
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LibreOffice Resolution Problem
This morning I upgraded to 13.04 from 12.10. Everything seemed to be working fine until I checked LibreOffice and something had gone funny with the visuals (and Gnome integration? My knowledge of ...
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do-release-upgrade reinstalling unwanted packages
I just wanted to update my installation of 12.04 LTS (Server, no WM) to 12.10. After calling 'do-release-upgrade' it suggests to download 754M of files, among those libreoffice etc...
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How do I install LibreOffice 4.0.2?
After I upgraded to 13.04 I noticed that Libreoffice 4.0.2 wasn't working, at all. When I click its launcher I get the this start up box:
which amounts to no program being opened.
I have ...
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Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not works as expected
Fontconfig warning: "/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/fonts/truetype/fc_local.conf", line
13: Having multiple <family> in <alias> isn't supported and may not works as expected
I run my script ...
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Why does my Xubuntu LibreOffice looks ugly?
My LibreOffice installation looks like Windows 95. The rest of my Xubuntu looks okay. Why? How can I fix it?
Click on the image for a full-resolution picture.
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Gillson font is displaying as Times new roman [duplicate]
In my application I am applying gill san font it is working in windows,but in Ubuntu it is displaying as Times new roman.I have Libre Office in my Ubuntu System.But Why it is not supporting Gill san ...
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How to completely remove mythes-ru and repair broken package catalog
ruddcl@Tashkent-02:/$ sudo apt-get remove --purge mythes-ru
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' ...
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Why are different Libreoffice Applications grouped together on Unity launcher?
When opening a Writer window for instance and a Calc window - any 2 different LO applications really - the icons on Unity launcher are grouped together under a general Libreoffice icon. How can they ...
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txt file and linebreaks
I used
antiword >filename.txt
To convert a .doc word document to a txt file. Then I edited the file in nano (also tried vim) and when the document is viewed in libre office and gvim or even text ...
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LIbreOffice 3.4.4 won't update
I have ubuntu 11.10 installed on my machine and LibreOffice 3.4.4 came with it. Since I know there is a newer version out there, I ran the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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How to set LibreOffice to use Persian/Arabic/Hindi page numbers?
I want to have my page numbers in LibreOffice Impress to be in Persian.
Which means ۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹ instead of 0123456789.
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What LibreOffice format works best in MS Office?
For a school project I need to collaborate with a lot of different people, and they all use MS Office. Of course they all have problems with opening .odt files. (even though MS says that Office should ...
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Does LibreOffice Writer or any other word processor support inline equations?
A feature of Word 2010 I love is the capability of inserting truly inline mathematical equations.
By "truly inline" I mean that for all intents and purposes, editing or adding a mathematical formula ...
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How do I get LibreOffice to make titles for columns such that as I scroll down I see the titles instead of “A,B,C,…” for columns?
By instead of "A,B,C,..." I mean the column letters you see in this screenshot:
I am using LibreOffice 4.0.2 that I installed from the tarball of debian packages that I downloaded from the ...
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PDF smart file diff
I have a LibreOffice document that I converted to PDF at some point in time using the built-in capabilities. The timestamp on the PDF is later than on the word processing document, so that makes ...
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How do I modify Libre Office launcher's icon right-click menu on Ubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
Upon right-click Libre Office Unity launcher icon shows only two items: to open Libre Office itself (i.e. its main menu) or to unpin the icon from launcher.
I want Libre Office icon in my Unity bar ...
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LibreOffice : How to save themes of a presentation to use them in another?
I downloaded presentations with nice themes I would like to use myself.
The only way I found was to delete all the content and write my own.
Isn't there a better solution than this one?
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I do not find the version of LibreOffice
I recently installed the Wubi version of Ubuntu12.10. I need to find the version of LibreOffice installed on my system, but I cannot find it anywhere.Who can help me?
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Libre Office Compatibility with Microsoft [duplicate]
When i use libre office some of the files which are saved in Microsoft Office are not seen correctly under Libre Office
I mean colors,visuality,tables etc everything come out bound the office so how ...
