LibreOffice 7.5 arrives with great significant improvements, know them

Libre Office 7.5, the new version of the office suite is available to the general public. LibreOffice 7.5 provides a lot of improvements and new features for users sharing documents with MS Office or migrating from MS Office.

LibreOffice offers the highest level of compatibility in the office suite market segment, with native support for OpenDocument Format (ODF), outperforming proprietary formats in terms of security and robustness, superior compatibility with MS Office files, as well as filters for many older document formats, to return ownership and control to users.

LibreOffice 7.5 main new features

In this new version of LibreOffice 7.5, 144 collaborators participated: 63% of code commitments come from the 47 developers employed by three companies on the TDF advisory board (Collabora, Red Hat and allotropia) or other organizations, 12% comes from 6 Document Foundation developers, with the remaining 25% coming from 91 individual volunteers.

Another 112 volunteers, representing hundreds of other translation providers, have hired localizations in 158 languages.

On the part of the overall improvements we can find the improvements in lto support for dark mode, as well as new application icons and MIME type, more colorful and more animated.

Another change that stands out is that Start Center can filter documents by type, In addition to that an improved version of the single toolbar user interface has been implemented.

It is also highlighted that PDF export has been improved with various fixes and new options and features, as well as improved font embedding support in macOS.

On the part of the Writer improvements the following is highlighted:

• Markers have been significantly improved and are also much more visible.
• Objects can be marked as decorative, for better accessibility.
• New types have been added to content controls, which also improve the quality of PDF forms.
• A new automatic accessibility check option has been added to the “Tools” menu.
• A first machine translation is available, based on the DeepL translation APIs
  Various spell check improvements

Of the Calc changes:

• Data tables are now compatible with charts
• The feature wizard now allows you to search by description.
• “Spelled” number formats have been added.
• Conditional formatting conditions are now case insensitive.
• Correct behavior when entering numbers with a single prefix quote (')

And finally of the Draw and Impress changes:

• New set of default table styles and creation of new table styles
• Table styles can be customized, saved as master items, and exported.
• Objects can be dragged and dropped in the browser.
• It is now possible to trim embedded videos on the slide and still play them.
• The presenter console can also run as a normal window instead of full screen.

Finally if you are interested in knowing all the details For new enhancements, read the official release notes for version 7.5 here.

How to install LibreOffice 7.5?

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_7.5_Linux*.tar.gz

We enter the directory created after unzipping, in my case it is the 64-bit:

cd LibreOffice_7.5_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 7.4 on Fedora, 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_7.5_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz

And we install the packages that the folder contains with:

sudo rpm -Uvh *.rpm

How to install LibreOffice 7.5 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