Yesterday The Document Foundation announced the general availability of version 6.4 of the open source office suite LibreOffice, this being an important version, because apart from being a main version, this represents the last of the 6.x branch. The next version of LibreOffice that will be released later this year will be LibreOffice 7, and this year also marks the XNUMXth anniversary of the LibreOffice launch.
In this new version of the popular open source office suite, it is noted that new functions are included and also brings many corrections and improvements.
What's new in LibreOffice 6.4
Starting with the new improvements in LibreOffice 6.4, developers presume that this new version starts faster and the application's help system has now been improved to make finding information easier and faster by providing more accurate results and screenshots.
Also, the new version of LibreOffice 6.4 has undergone great improvements compared to its previous version, LibreOffice 6.3, released in November 2019.
Well, the six applications in the suite: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base have new relevant features to accelerate user productivity.
Meanwhile Writer introduces a new «Table» panel in the sidebar and improves the copy and paste of tables, in addition to that there are a new menu option called "Paste Special" which allows you to copy and paste a table in the form of a nested table.
Comments can now be marked as resolved and added to images and graphics in text documents.
For Calc, spreadsheets can now be exported as a single page PDF document. At the same time, the applications Impress and Draw added a new option "Consolidate text" to the Shape menu to combine multiple text boxes into one.
LibreOffice Online users They will also benefit from other significant improvements in Writer and Calc.
In fact, Writer implements the same table properties in the sidebar and offers users complete management of the document's table of contents.
At the same time, Calc users can take advantage of a comprehensive feature wizard and access a much wider range of options for certain charts in the spreadsheet sidebar.
The Document Foundation has also listed other very relevant features that have been introduced in the new version of the office suite.
In addition, LibreOffice start center has also been improved. Now there are application icons next to document thumbnails to help users differentiate between document types.
Similarly, LibreOffice 6.4 has also introduced a new QR code generator which allows users to add mobile codes to their documents. Finally, there is a new auto-write feature that automates the process of masking classified or confidential data.
Users can define text matches or regular expressions by accessing "Tools> Auto Typing".
Other enhancements for all applications include unified context menus with hyperlinks that provide a consistent experience across applications.
How to install LibreOffice 6.4 on Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives?
First We must first uninstall the previous version if we have it, This is in order to avoid later problems, for this we must open a terminal and execute the following:
sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
Now we will proceed to go to the official website of the project where in your download section we can get deb package to be able to install it in our system.
Done the download we are going to unzip the content of the newly purchased package with:
tar -xzvf LibreOffice_6.4.0_Linux*.tar.gz
We enter the directory created after unzipping, in my case it is the 64-bit:
cd LibreOffice_6.4.0_Linux_x86-64_deb
Then we go to the folder where the LibreOffice deb files are:
cd DEBS
And finally we install with:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
How to install LibreOffice 6.4 on Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE and derivatives?
Si you are using a system that has the support to install rpm packages, You can install this new update by obtaining the rpm package from the LibreOffice download page.
Obtained the package we unzip with:
tar -xzvf LibreOffice_6.4.0_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
And we install the packages that the folder contains with:
sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm
How to install LibreOffice 6.4 on Arch Linux, Manjaro and derivatives?
In the case of Arch and its derived systems We can install this version of LibreOffice, we just open a terminal and type:
sudo pacman -Sy libreoffice-fresh
Good afternoon everyone, I leave you here this website that I have come across:
https://todolibreoffice.club
I don't think it talks about the Linux version specifically, but it does have a few templates that may be interesting.
A greeting.