Questions tagged [libreoffice]
Questions about LibreOffice and the included applications (Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, Math). Unless the question is a general how-to, user should always tell which version of LibreOffice in use.
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How do I enable Libreoffice Base 7.5 on Ubuntu 22.04?
I've added openjdk version "11.0.19" 2023-04-18
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.19+7-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu122.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.19+7-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu122.04....
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LibreOffice Writer behaves erratically on KUbuntu
I am running into erratic functionality with LibreOffice writer. It's got to the point where anything beyond a simple few-page document (which could probably be written in Kate!) has become akin to ...
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How to paste the copied text from LibreOffice to the text editor
The text editor in Ubuntu 18.04 is not showing the paste option. I am trying to copy some text from LibreOffice Writer and paste it in the Text editor, but it is not working.
First I couldn't see any ...
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How can I add social icons in LibreOffice document?
I need social icons eg a pin icon for location, a LinkedIn icon, and a phone icon. I know that I can add special characters by clicking on insert > special characters and then choosing symbols ...
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User-specified print settings in GTK applications are silently overriden by system printer defaults
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I have since ascertained that this appears to be a GTK printing issue, after testing in multiple desktop environments (GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE, XFCE, and KDE Plasma) and trying to print in ...
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Why is editing a LibreOffice document so slow? [closed]
I have a 12.5 Mb LibreOffice .odt document.
It contains both text and images.
When I try to edit it, it is very slow about when the letters show in the document when I type them.
When I use a text ...
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Libreoffice tabbed ribbons looks bad on XFCE
I have just enabled "tabbed ribbons" style user interface following some tutorials online. The expected result was something like this:
However what I see is this:
or even worse with a ...
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LibreOffice shows window title bar in slide-show mode on Ubuntu 23.04
On Ubuntu 23.04 (but not on Ubuntu 22.10) LibreOffice Impress does not properly enter slide-show mode, which should be entirely full screen.
Instead, Impress shows a window title bar that reads "...
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Cannot Print from LibreOffice 7.5 Using Ubuntu 20.04 [duplicate]
I have a document in LibreOffice Writer format that I would like to print. As I said in the title line, I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.2 and my version of LibreOffice is 7.5.2.2 (X86_64)/LibreOffice ...
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LibreOffice Writer Opens Document When Opening Firefox
When I click on the Firefox launcher on Gnome (Ubuntu 22.04) by pressing the Windows key and selecting the Firefox shortcut my system loads up LibreOffice Writer with a particular document which it ...
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Libre Office Screen gets black shade
When I open Libre Office, particularly Libre Office Calc, I occasionally see black shades on the screen. It mostly happens when I open a big Excel file. Is there any quick fix to this problem? I'm ...
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Document not saving in Live 365 collaboration
I'm about to rip my hair out on this one -- what little I have, anyway. I'm helping an old friend with her doctoral dissertation, and she's using Live 365 as the platform on which her dissertation is ...
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Table borders are not printing
I created a table but when I print it, there are no table boundaries that are printed.
I am using Libre Office Writer on Ubuntu Mate.
Table Boundaries are checked off.
How can I get those borders to ...
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Libreoffice is saving deleted items in .doc format but they're not visible in .odt
My set up
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
Libreoffice ...
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What is the latest 32-bit LibreOffice version?
While maintaining an ancient and honorable 32-bit Acer D250 running Ubuntu 18.04 (since that is the last 32-bit Ubuntu, AFAIK), I noticed it had LibreOffice 6.0 installed. In an effort to update to 6....
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Can't launch or install Libre writer or office [duplicate]
I can't open or even install the Libre office or word writer in my Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS 64 bit system.
I get the following error message when I tried to uninstall and reinstall it back as I couldn't ...
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Access changed overnight to external drives
I had an external hard drive which has always worked for years. All of a sudden one day I opened my libre office which multiple files that were open after a crash and libre can't recover them because ...
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Libreoffice keeps promoting itself to defaultapplication
Running Jammy 22.04.2 with GNOME Shell 42.5.
I have Libre Office installed (and want to keep it around) but usually use a different Office suit (Softmaker Office 21, if this is relevant).
No idea how ...
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Remove unwanted instance of LibreOffice 7.5
after a regular update of the system (Ubuntu 22), I now have two installations of LibreOffice. Actually, only one shows up, the one I originally installed (7.3):
$ dpkg -l | grep libreoffice | awk '{...
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Solve multiple installation of LibreOffice
after a routine update of Ubuntu 22 I now have multiple versions of LibreOffice (7.3.7.2 and 7.5.1.2).
Is it possible to merge the two (as to keep the plugins I placed in 7.3 but not present in the ...
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How to run mp4 videos in Impress
I have to insert mp4 videos in an Impress slideshow in Ubuntu 22.04, but I'm not able to reproduce it during the presentation. I can only see a a black image (if I click on the space where the video ...
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Tiny font in Libre Writer
I'm running Kubuntu 22.04, and I've set my font to Liberation 12 pt. Everything on my screen is in a large font -- except for the text I'm trying to create, which appears in a tiny font. I've used ...
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LibreOffice applications hides half of the Ubuntu dock
From time to time, the Libreoffice applications like Writer and Calc and the ubuntu dock overlap with a transparency effect. This also happens with Evince (pdf reader). To solve this, you have to ...
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How to generate QR Codes using LibreOffice in Ubuntu?
I want to generate QR codes in Ubuntu 22.04. How to do it using LibreOffice?
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Can't open LibreOffice Draw
On trying to open LibreOffice Draw from Applications, a window appears: "LibreOffice 7.3 - Due to an error, LibreOffice crashed.... The following files will be recovered." The list of files ...
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Printing problem in Xubuntu after electrical brown out while both computer and printer were running
My system: Xubuntu 22.04 LTS. My printer: modern Brother laser cable connected in network.
The printer uses the ipp driverless protocol and worked fine before the power cut.
After restart the computer ...
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Libreoffice Writer: format headings like the web's "inline-block" behaviour
(Ubuntu 20.04, Libreoffice version 6.4.7.2) (An answer for a newer version is also welcome.)
I would like to format a series of headings in a document (all are h2 level).
For the sake of efficiency, ...
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Cannot set libreoffice UI to another language from DEBS
After first installing the base libreoffice packages, and then installing the local language packages as intended in the documentation,
I am sadly unable to select the desired language in the user ...
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Stripping a pptx presentation from videos in LibreOffice Impress
I have a .pptx presentation I am editing in LibreOffice Impress. The presentation contains videos. This works fine, but the size of the presentation is quite large because of the videos (177M), which ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 Libreoffice 7.3.7.2 update to 7.5
Ubuntu 22.04.1 installed LibreOffice 7.3.7.2
What are the latest means of updating to LibreOffice 7.5?
I would appreciate answers using snap.
There are inaccurate answers many years old which IMHO ...
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How can we manually install zoteros libre office plugin on linux ubuntu22.04 if we installed it via Software Center?
A relative installed Zotero using the software center and for some reason the libre office plugin was not automatically installed.
I read https://www.zotero.org/support/...
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Problem with naming range using LibreOffice Basic in Calc
I am developing an application in Calc that uses the following code to name a range.
Dim Rname As String
Dim s As String
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Ranges As Object
Dim Sheet As Object
Ranges = Doc....
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ibus-avro is not working everywhere on Ubuntu 22.04
ibus-avro for Bangla typing in Linux is not working everywhere, i.e it's working on Firefox, but not working on Chrome. It's also not working on LibreOffice, text editor, etc.
Firefox
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Cannot open or create a new text file in LibreOffice 7.3 in Ubuntu 22.04
A few days ago I upgraded from Ubuntu 21.04 to Ubuntu 22.04, and since then I cannot open or create a new text file / doc file in LibreOffice 7.3. It always shows a message box that says:
The file '...
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How to make a Thunderbird attachment readable to snap apps such as LibreOffice
Since LibreOffice became a snap package it can not find an attachment to a mail in Thunderbird when this is clicked to open. Of course there is the work-around to download the attachment explicitly, ...
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Cannot open offline help
When pressing F1 while running any libreoffice tool, my default browser (chromium) is opened with the following url:
file:///usr/share/libreoffice/help/index.html?
Target=scalc/modules/scalc/ui/...
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How to headless update and export to pdf with libreoffice?
I'm perfectly able to export to pdf from the writer GUI after searching and replacing a word via script (unzip odt;sed xml;zip odt).
However exporting via the commandline exports the old word instead ...
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Libreoffice new version instead of upgrade
When I try apt remove libreoffice I get no libreoffice installed.
But I have installed new one with recommended dpkg -i *.deb
And now I have old version 7.0 which starts when I type libreoffice and ...
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Remove unwanted printers
When I go to printers on localhost or cups, I only see two printers that I want to use...
When I go to settings printers or print dialog from like Libre Office I see bunch of network printers that I ...
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How to deal with large formatted documents quickly in Ubuntu?
I have a .docx file that have a size of 200MB.
To open or save such huge files, MS Office on Windows 10 only need several seconds, but Libre Office on Ubuntu 22.04 take dozens of seconds.
(FYI: iWork ...
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Can LibreOffice Draw run multi-threaded?
When working with heavy files on LibreOffice Draw, it only uses 1 of my CPU cores at 100% capacity and others are sitting idle. Difficult with heavy files.
Is there a way to make LibreOffice Draw run ...
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Libreoffice: extract image from object
I have been given a docx file from which I am trying to extract images with Libreoffice. With actual "Image" elements in the file it is easy (right-click->Save). But there are also "...
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How can I copy text by simply highlighting it (jammy)?
One of the great features of Linux for me was always that I can copy text to the clipboard by simply highlighting it. This worked well for me under Debian and then Ubuntu for a long time.
Under Ubuntu ...
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LibreOffice Writer: Automatic Interpretation of Hyperlink Text from URL
One of the features I really like in Google Docs and some text editors (like MarkText) is their automatic interpretation of the text for a hyperlink.
You paste a URL into the document, and the editor ...
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Certain apps cannot "see" a drive mounted at /projects, but mainstream linux apps are fine
I have a second HDD set up that automounts to /projects (a linux-nonstandard location but one used by some CAD tools). Point being to make the design self contained and transportable.
Basic Linux apps ...
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sign using digital certificate on Libreoffice writer
Using firefox/chrome the certificate are ok but when I try to sign using LibreOffice writer it's not showed.
I set on LibreOffice tools > options > security > certificate path: $HOME/.pki/...
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Macro hardening is now failing
I am running Ubuntu 20.04.
I am using Libre Office that comes with it. (6.4.7.2)
I have been hardening LibreOffice macros by using
disablemacrosexecution
set macrosecuritylevel to highest
Recently ...
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LibreOffice Theme is Gray and Seems Broken
I just installed LibreOffice on v22 using Software Center (it's a snap). It looks unusually gray and ugly. How can I make it prettier?
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LO Writer: Easiest way to put line of words into table as rows (list)
Let's say we have a series of words separated by commas in a LibreOffice Writer odt document:
"water, air, fire, sky, cloud, rain, snow, ice, wind, sun, moon, star, mountain..."
What is the ...
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Samba share (cifs utils) and Libreoffice: Files get deleted under particular circumstances
Our company has experienced a terrible bug when dealing with Libreoffice and samba shared documents and we can reproduce it every time.
What we've got:
Samba share on a windows PC (we tried with linux ...
