Knowledge Base (Posts about libreoffice)

LibreOffice Customize Keyboard does work, but...

bgstack15 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:56:00 GMT

When you go to customize keyboard shortcuts so that there's some keystroke for increasing and decreasing font size, you will discover something. And upon taking screenshots for writing this post, everything makes sense now!

screenshot, too big

Screenshot of a cell with a value too large for the width

You will find the Menu Tools... -> Customize... -> dialog tab Menus and learn the name of the operation that should happen.

LibreOffice recent documents list all filetypes

bgstack15 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:27:00 GMT

LibreOffice recently changed how it displays the recent files list (aka MRU, most recently used). It now shows only the current context (Writer, Calc, Impress, etc.)'s filetype in the MRU. But if you want to revert to the original functionality, there is a feature flag for it!

You have to go into Expert Config (menu Tools -> Options... -> treeview LibreOffice -> Advanced -> button "Open Expert Configuration") and change org.openoffice.Office.Common to False. That's it! Isn't FLOSS so great, because they can add feature flags instead of just making an unchangeable decision? It's almost like there are real people involved who care about their users.

Screenshot of LibreOffice Expert configuration

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Libreoffice Impress extension: PhotoAlbum

bgstack15 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:30:24 GMT

LibreOffice Impress has an extension, PhotoAlbum, that lets you load a set of images into a presentation. That site doesn't have the downloadable asset, but extensions.openoffice.org does! You want exact file https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/download/4216.

I also mirror this extension in case this upstream site ever takes it down: portablephotoalbum-1.0.3.oxt

This is a very useful extension if you use other software to generate a presentation and export it as a set of images.

Libreoffice show icons in menus

bgstack15 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:04:57 GMT

I suppose that gtk3 is the reason behind LibreOffice's nerfed ability to display icons in the menu, but some enterprising netizen found the way to get LibreOffice to route around this terrible design decision.

You can force LibreOffice's menu icons on by visiting Tools -> Options dialog, LibreOffice -> Advanced -> button "Open Expert Configuration." This new dialog has a search box, where you enter iconsinmenu and set these values:

ShowIconsInMenues: true
IsSystemIconsInMenus: false

After a restart, you can see the icons in the menus!

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Ripped directly from LibreOffice - show icons in menus - Linux Is The Future

Chicago95 icon theme for LibreOffice

bgstack15 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:03:19 GMT

I have started a project for converting the LibreOffice Writer and Calc experiences to as close to the Microsoft Office 95 experience as I could. You can contribute to the project on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/bgstack15/libreoffice-chicago95-iconset. Some instructions from the README:

To assemble the `images_chicago95.zip` file and also the .oxt file, manually inspect and run build.sh.

    ./build.sh

To place the iconset in the public location for a 64-bit Linux distro:

    sudo cp -p Chicago95-theme/iconsets/images_chicago95.zip /usr/lib64/libreoffice/share/config/

The OOTB (out-of-the-box) experience is now complete, but there are way more buttons to finish. Some of these buttons are hand-drawn, because a modern office suite does a lot more than Office 95 ever did. Contributions are welcome!

LibreOffice 7 and the Tango Icon set

bgstack15 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:43:40 GMT

LibreOffice 7.0.0 has removed the Tango icon set, i.e., the default icon set for the toolbars in the past. Tango icons were from a project with an interesting history. These icons are still available as an extension (referense 2) you can go install. I really wanted these icons back, so I adapted the deprecated Debian packaging (reference 4) information to build a package for myself. It is now hosted in my OBS repository for Devuan Ceres: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:bgstack15/libreoffice-tango- iconset With current default icons: With the classic icons: To choose which icon style to use, select menu Tools - > Options.... Navigate in the tree to LibreOffice -> View. Select "Icon Style" drop-down and select the value you want.

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Libreoffice Calc hide page breaks

bgstack15 — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:07:55 GMT

tl;dr

Tools menu -> Options... -> Libreoffice Calc / View tab -> Visual Aids section -> "Page breaks" checkbox

The story

I run in to this on occasion, and here the solution. Sometimes upon opening a file, and certainly after printing, my spreadsheet will retain the additional dashed lines that show how many cells will fit on a printed page. These additional lines annoy me, so I wanted to know how to turn them off. After some Internet searching, I found the answer.

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Ripped from How to hide default print range/page break lines after clearing a print range? - Ask LibreOffice

LibreOffice Writer disable autocomplete

bgstack15 — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:02:28 GMT

If you really want to disable the autocomplete in Writer, follow the basic menu to the settings window. Tools menu -> Autocorrect -> Autocorrect Options... -> Word Completion tab -> uncheck "Enable word completion"

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How to Disable AutoComplete in LibreOffice -- THE Journal

Libreoffice is not using my gtk theme

bgstack15 — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:31:44 GMT

LibreOffice was not using my gtk theme (on my devuan netinst, fluxbox, with xfce4-settings-manager, chtheme, and manually written .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini).

![basic interface for libreoffice

writer](/2019/06/libreoffice-plain.png) No theming for Writer

Turns out you simply need to install an additional package:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk3

![libreoffice writer with gtk3

theming](/2019/06/libreoffice-integrated.png) Writer with gtk3 theme applied

Devuan also has a libreoffice-gtk2 package, which I didn't try. I haven't tried a Fedora minimal/net install with Fluxbox and LibreOffice, so I don't know if the libreoffice-gtk3 rpm is necessary there, but it's in the repos.

sudo dnf install libreoffice-gtk3

I was impressed by this behavior. Just install an extra .so file, and boom, LibreOffice integrates with your desktop theme. LibreOffice is some great stuff!

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Ripped off from How to change themes [closed] - Ask LibreOffice

Insert filename in Libreoffice Calc spreadsheet ods file in Linux

bgstack15 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:26:30 GMT

In LibreOffice Writer, you can use the "Insert Field" tool to easily insert the filename into the document. In Calc, it's a little different, but still possible. You can access the raw filename and sheet with CELL("filename"). To make it pretty, use a longer formula.

=LEFT(REPLACE(LEFT(CELL("filename"),FIND("'",CELL("filename"),2)),1,9,"/"),LEN(REPLACE(LEFT(CELL("filename"),FIND("'",CELL("filename"),2)),1,9,"/"))-1)