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Smarter navigation

For Heading entries, Navigator now displays a tooltip with the outline word and character count that includes all sub-outline words and characters.

 

Writer

  • Move line hyphenation rule is added to choose whether or not to hyphenate the last line words of the pages and move the whole lines to the next pages instead.
  • A command was added to insert a paragraph break before a table: “.uno:BreakAboveTable”.
  • It is now easier to control how text is selected while scrolling the view.
  • An option to redact images was added in the Auto-Redact dialog Tools ▸ Auto-Redact ▸ Add Target.
  • It is now possible to ‘reinstate’ changes in Writer (reject with history)

Calc

  • Text Import dialog, that is used in CSV import, now has Always show on import checkbox (enabled by default).
  • Conditional formatting operators in icon sets can now be customised.
  • A “Clear AutoFilter” option was added to the context menu of Calc cells.
  • Text Import dialog is now only shown for Paste Special actions to avoid unnecessary interruptions.
  • New functions: CHOOSECOLS/ROWS, DROP, EXPAND, HSTACK, TAKE, TEXTAFTER/TEXTBEFORE/TEXTSPLIT, TOCOL/TOROW, VSTACK, and WRAPCOLS/WRAPROWS

Impress & Draw

  • Ctrl + scrollwheel changes how many slides are displayed per row in the Slide Sorter view.
  • Embedded fonts in PPTX files are now supported.
  • Master Slides in Impress and Master Pages in Draw can now be copied.
  • In Draw, Boundaries are shown for page margins.

General

  • Background image in the document now visible as a bitmap thumbnail in Page Style ▸ Area ▸ Bitmap.
  • Encrypted hybrid PDFs can now be imported.
  • Support for exporting PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) was added.
  • The UI picker View ▸ User Interface… allows users to activate toolbars.

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