LibreOffice 7.4 Community, a benchmark for interoperability

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LibreOffice 7.4 Community, a benchmark for interoperability

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LibreOffice 7.4 Community, a benchmark for interoperability - TDF Community Blog

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Development is now focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, and many new features are targeted at users migrating from MS Office Berlin, August 18, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.4 Community, the new major release of the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is immediately available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux. Most Significant New Features GENERAL Support for WebP images and EMZ/WMZ files Help pages for the ScriptForge scripting library Search field for the Extension Manager Performance and compatibility improvements WRITER Better change tracking in the footnote area Edited lists show original numbers in change tracking New typographic settings for hyphenation CALC Support for 16,384 columns in spreadsheets Extra functions in drop-down AutoSum widget New menu item to search for sheet names IMPRESS New support for document themes A video summarizing the top new features in LibreOffice 7.4 Community is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC8M4UzqpqE and PeerTube: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/myZUTCytN28kuxDa5VXNgh. A description of all new features is available in the Release Notes [1] Interoperability Based on the distinctive features of the LibreOffice Technology platform for personal productivity on desktop, mobile and cloud, LibreOffice 7.4 provides a large number of improvements and new features targeted at

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