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LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Productivity Suite at a Glance

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Sep 1, 2015
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LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Productivity Suite at a Glance

1 - LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Productivity Suite at a Glance

The latest update of the LibreOffice open-source office suite provides new features and improved stability and performance. Learn more about its key features.


LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Office Suite

2 - LibreOffice 5.0.1 Open-Source Office Suite

As was the case with previous releases, LibreOffice 5.0.1 aims to provide an open-source choice for a complete office suite of applications. The new release includes document, spreadsheet and presentation apps.


Easy Cropping of Images Inline

3 - Easy Cropping of Images Inline

Inline images used in LibreOffice documents and spreadsheets can now be easily cropped by users, with a mouse and the integrated tooling.


Drag-and-Drop Image Support on Mac OS X

4 - Drag-and-Drop Image Support on Mac OS X

In addition to now being able to crop images easily, support for dragging and dropping images has now been enabled on Apple’s Mac OS X.


PDF Time-Stamping

5 - PDF Time-Stamping

It is now possible to provide a digitally protected time-stamp on a LibreOffice document that is exported to PDF.


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Apple Pages Document Import Is Improved

6 - Apple Pages Document Import Is Improved

The Writer Document application is now able to import Apple Pages files.


Conditional Formatting Comes to Calc Spreadsheets

7 - Conditional Formatting Comes to Calc Spreadsheets

Calc Spreadsheets in LibreOffice 5.0.1 can now benefit from conditional formatting, providing more formatting options for users.


Calc Improves Column Reference Options

8 - Calc Improves Column Reference Options

With LibreOffice 5.0.1, the Calc release notes explain that it is now possible to specify references to entire columns or rows using the A:A or 1:1 notation.


Give Some Color to Text Backgrounds

9 - Give Some Color to Text Backgrounds

In the Draw and Impress applications, it is now possible to have a text background color.

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