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LibreOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, release new 25.8 version today!<\/p>\n
LibreOffice 25.8 is a new major release that features user interface improvements, many new spreadsheet functions, faster file loading, and many other new features.<\/p>\n
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First, the new release added support for exporting PDF 2.0<\/b> (ISO 32000-2). The PDF export dialog now offers a drop-down box to choose PDF 2.0 or PDF\/A-4 that’s using PDF 2.0 as the base. And, it implemented modern AES-256 encryption that is mandatory with PDF 2.0.<\/p>\n For those who would like to use LibreOffice as a document viewer, the release introduced application-wide viewer mode<\/b> that all files will be open as read-only mode with all editing tools disabled.<\/p>\n And the option is controlled by Enable Application Wide Viewer (read-only) Mode.<\/p><\/div>\n The Calc<\/b> app in the release introduced many new functions. They include CHOOSECOLS, CHOOSEROWS, DROP, EXPAND, HSTACK, TAKE, TEXTAFTER, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTSPLIT, TOCOL, TOROW, VSTACK, WRAPCOLS, and WRAPROWS functions.<\/p>\n It as well added “ The Writer<\/b> app introduced new It added paragraph, column, page and spread end zones, command to insert a paragraph break before a table, command to convert fields into plain text, and dialog for copy content of a field from read-only document.<\/p>\n There are also per-window track changes recording, reinstate for tracked changes, option to redact images (remove sensitive data), and ability to set the language of certain punctuation characters.<\/p>\n Redact Images<\/p><\/div>\n LibreOffice 25.8 also has significantly performance improvements. Writer and Calc open files up to 30% faster in benchmark tests.<\/p>\n For Writer, it’s now much faster for deleting very large tables, faster loading tables with bookmarks, and faster to open large right-to-left documents in. For Calc, it greatly improved loading XLSX files with lots of conditional formatting, graphical objects, customFormat attributes, or formulas.<\/p>\n Other changes in the release include:<\/p>\n LibreOffice 25.8 also removed Windows 7 and 8\/8.1 support, deprecated 32-bit Windows build. And, it’s the last version that runs on macOS 10.15. For more, see the official release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n LibreOffice 25.8 is available to download for Linux, Windows, and macOS via the link below:<\/p>\n For Ubuntu users, there are 5 choices<\/b>, though some of them are not updated at the moment of writing.<\/p>\n LibreOffice AppImage<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n As there are so many ways to install the office suite, it’s easy to get it installed multiple times, resulting duplicated app icons.<\/p>\n Make backup of your important data before uninstalling the application.<\/b><\/p>\n To uninstall the Snap package, either use App Center (or Ubuntu Software) or run command:<\/p>\n For Flatpak package, use the command below to uninstall:<\/p>\n To uninstall the Deb packages downloaded from LibreOffice website, use command:<\/p>\n Or, remove the Ubuntu PPA package by running command:<\/p>\n NOTE: Remove the PPA package will also get rid of the pre-installed LibreOffice (if Ubuntu was installed in “Extended selection” mode).<\/b> You may choose to purge PPA which will downgrade LibreOffice to the stock version:<\/p>\n LibreOffice, the popular free open-source office suite, release new 25.8 version today! 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<\/a><\/p>\nViewerAppMode<\/code> option in the Advanced -> Expert Configuration dialog.<\/p>\n<\/a>Clear AutoFilter<\/code>” option to Calc cells context menu, and ability to customize conditional formatting operators in icon sets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMove line<\/code> hyphenation rule to choose whether to hyphenate the last line words of the pages and move the whole lines to the next pages instead.<\/p>\n\n
Get LibreOffice 25.8<\/h3>\n
\nDownload LibreOffice<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
libfuse2<\/code> package first.\nsudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n
flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
<\/li>\n.deb<\/code> package. Though the LibreOffice Fresh PPA<\/a> usually has a few weeks (even months) delay for the new major releases.To add PPA and upgrade pre-installed libreoffice to the latest, run commands below one by one:\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice\/ppa\r\nsudo apt update\r\nsudo apt install libreoffice<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
.deb<\/code> packages for Ubuntu and Debian users.After downloaded the tarball, extract, and navigate to the sub-folder that contains all the .deb packages. Right blank area and select “Open in Terminal”, finally run command to install them all:\nsudo apt install .\/*.deb<\/pre>\n
<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nUninstall LibreOffice<\/h3>\n
snap remove --purge libreoffice<\/pre>\n
flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.libreoffice.LibreOffice<\/pre>\n
sudo apt remove libobasis25.8* libreoffice25.8*<\/pre>\n
sudo apt remove --autoremove libreoffice-common<\/pre>\n
sudo apt install ppa-purge<\/pre>\n
sudo ppa-purge ppa:libreoffice\/ppa<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"