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Writer
Accesibility & Appearance
- The colour of non-printing characters can be customised.
- The background colour of comments can be customised.
- Warning and error levels in the Accessibility Sidebar deck were improved, and an option was added to ignore warnings.
- Default items for unordered lists aka bullets was updated.
Compatibility with other Office Suites
- Fixed handling of line object transformations in the DOCX import of Writer.
- Improved font fallback in the DOCX import of Writer.
Comments
- Added option to promote a reply comment into a root comment
- Comments are now tracked in the Navigator when you move the focus into comment boxes.
- Resizing the area containing comments shows a visual guide.
Change tracker
- Enhancement to identify a click on a tracked change in the document by highlighting the corresponding entry in the “Manage Changes” window and sidebar panel
- The dialog and Sidebar deck for managing tracked changes now have sorting options.
More enhacements
- Added Group and Mono controls to the Asian Phonetic Guide dialog.
- Writer now has support for doing partial layout passes when LOK clients have pending events, which sometimes improves interactivity a lot.
- Added options to set a default zoom level for opening documents, overriding zoom level stored in documents
- Writer TextBoxes now handle page captures
- Boundaries are now toggled independently of Formatting Marks
Show all improvements for this Writer version
- The Page Number Wizard now offers an option to fit the numbers into existing margins in order to avoid repagination.
- It is now possible to delete all content of a content type (excluding headings) via the Navigator.
- Selecting a match in the Find Sidebar deck will show its index number.
- The Hanging Indent command now also works, if the targeted paragraph has no existing indent.
- Hovering the mouse over a heading in the Navigator displays a tooltip showing the word and character count of the content associated with it.
- All footnotes in a document can be changed to endnotes and vice versa.
- Support was added for inline headings, which are commonly used in legal documents.
Calc
- A ‘Handle Duplicate Records’ dialog to select/remove duplicate records in Calc.
- Solver models can now be saved into spreadsheets and Solver is able to provide a sensitivity analysis report.
- An expert option CycleNextPrevSheetTab was added to control the behaviour of navigating Calc sheets using the Ctrl + PgDn and Ctrl + PgUp keyboard shortcuts.
- A “Summary below data” option was added to the Subtotals dialog.
- New sheet protection options related to Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts and AutoFilters were added.
User Experience
- A statusbar icon will indicate when Data ▸ Calculate ▸ AutoCalculate is switched off.
- Both the Function Wizard dialog and Functions Sidebar deck received improvements to searching and user experience.
- When selecting all while in a cell with neighbouring data, the selection will cover the neighbouring cells.
Compatibility
- Support import and export of Power Query in OOXML.
Impress
- The Interaction dialog is now asynchronous.
- Per-paragraph semi-transparent shape text in Impress’ SVG export blog post.
- Automatic repeating of slides can now be activated in windowed mode.
Many improvements to all Impress Templates
Beehive
Vivid
Inspiration
Pencil
Base
- The user experience of the SQL dialog was improved by making user input be retained during a session and showing the number of results.
Math
- Formulas can be stored in a user-defined category.
You can read the detailed release notes in its entirety.