LibreOffice 6.0 Final Release Coming Soon, Find Out What’s New

LibreOffice 6.0 Final Release is expected at the end of January 2018. According to the official announcement from LibreOffice Design Team, LibreOffice 6.0 is introducing a unique branding for the release. This is in collaboration with the Open Design Group. Let’s take a look at some new and important features of LibreOffice 6.0.

LibreOffice Writer

• Images could be rotated to any angle. Previously it was only possible to rotate images by 90° steps (know more)
• Writer documents could be used as mail merge data source (know more)
• Default table border changed to 0.5pt. Previously this was 0.05pt and caused visibility issues when printed (know more)
• “Grammar By” spell checking – user dictionaries now support automatic affixation/compounding which helps in effective editing and technical dictionary creation in several languages (know more):

• Added new collection of table styles as follows:

• New Notebookbar variants:

  

  

LibreOffice Calc

• A range of selected cells or a selected group of shapes could be exported as PNG or JPG (know more)
• Added “Paste unformatted text” option with the hot key Ctrl + Shift + Alt + V (know more)
• A lock icon (?) will appear at the beginning of the tab name for protected tab (know more)
• New Notebookbar variant:

  

LibreOfiice Impress

• 10 new Impress templates added and two templates improved (know more)
• Confirmation dialog will be shown only for the current slide when images set as background (know more)
• Widescreen aspect ratio (16:9) set as default slide format (know more)
• New Notebookbar variant:

  

Core/General

• Native OpenPGP support for document signing and encryption (know more):

• Save modified images – users can now choose to save the original image or the modified version through a simple pop-up dialog (available in Writer, Calc and Draw):

• Added Search field, Recent characters & Favorite characters in the Special characters dialog:

  

• Includes elementary icon theme which was only available in Xubuntu before:

  

• Added support for user icon themes via extension manager (know more)
• New open source fonts added: Noto (Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Noto Mono and others), Hebrew & Arabic fonts
• All exported images are now annotated with their mimetype in the ODF
• Flat ODF now also has fallback graphics for SVG, PDF and Metafiles
• Images are now always exported in a browser-readable format (usually SVG or PNG) for XHTML Export

LibreOffice Help

• Old WikiHelp replaced by the new mobile-fiendly help online:

  

Disclaimer: This post is mainly based on the article LibreOffice 6.0: Release Notes from Official LibreOffice Wiki. If you spot any mistakes please do let us know through the comments 🙂