A few days ago version 4.2 of the LibreOffice office suite was published. This new version includes a large number of new features and very interesting features.
News
- Improves compatibility when opening and saving Microsoft Office documents, especially in the DOCX and RTF branch.
- New spreadsheet engine that allows use of the GPU for large parallel calculations.
- A new start window.
- Windows enhancements specially designed for business environments.
- Integration with Windows 7 and Windows 8 is improved.
- A new filter for importing Abiword and Apple Keynote documents.
- Preview of previous documents.
- Impress remote control for Android and iOS.
- New icon set.
- Writer rendering via OpenGL.
Installation
You just have to open a terminal and enter the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
To install the new Sifr icon pack:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-style-sifr