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Feature Highlight

Tabbed user interface improvements

V 26.8

The tabbed interface now has a different background color for each application, so Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw are easy to tell apart at a glance. It also includes other improvements.

Tabbed user interface improvements
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Better RTL Support in Writer

Better RTL Support in Writer
  • Resizing objects with their handles now works intuitively in RTL and vertical CJK documents
  • Paragraph direction is now detected automatically when opening or pasting plain RTL text
  • Better line wrapping for bidirectional text: spaces at the end of a line follow the paragraph’s writing direction
  • Show Formatting Marks now also reveals bidirectional control characters
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Writer

Draft View

Distraction-free editing: View ▸ Draft hides the page layout so you can focus on the text.

Draft View
Impress

Presentation Sections

Group your slides into named sections, available from the context menu in the slide pane.

Presentation Sections
Writer

Baseline Grid

Show the baseline grid for page line-spacing with View ▸ Grids and Helplines ▸ Display Baseline Grid. Its color can be changed in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Appearance.

Baseline Grid

More to Discover

More improvements in LibreOffice 26.8 that make everyday work easier.

Writer

  • The new Paragraph Composer balances word spacing across consecutive lines for better-looking justified text
  • Quick Find in the Sidebar can now search through comments
  • The Word Count dialog now shows counts before and after the cursor
  • New option to stop typed text from replacing the current selection
  • Page style names are now shown on page breaks

Calc

  • New Shuffle command to randomize the order of cells in a range
  • Pivot tables now support calculated fields
  • Typing RTL text into an empty cell automatically sets the cell direction to RTL
  • The Borders toolbar button remembers and reapplies the last border style used
  • Ctrl+Home now moves to the first cell outside frozen rows and columns

Impress & Draw

  • A single presentation or drawing can now mix slides and pages of different sizes
  • Custom slide names are shown next to the slide number in the Slide Panel
  • Numbered lists can now be switched to bulleted lists
  • Theme colors are available from the tabbed interface in Impress
  • Draw can swap mouse wheel zoom and scroll

General

  • Existing table styles in Writer and Calc can now be edited
  • Changes to the application theme colors apply right away, with no restart
  • More paper sizes: A0, A1, A2, B0, B1, B2 and B3
  • Keyboard shortcuts can be customized for an individual document
  • Documents created in other UI languages now display with their intended fonts
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