Open Source Free Office Suite LibreOffice 6.4 Released

Open Source LibreOffice 6.4 Released

LibreOffice 6.4 is the first new release in 2020.

Libre office 6.4 added a QR code generator, which is more accessible to users to add QR codes in the documents. The QR code will scan through mobile phone devices.

There are four hyperlink options available with this release, Open Hyperlink, Edit Hyperlink, Copy Hyperlink Location, and Remove Hyperlink.

LibreOffice 6.4, a new major release is providing better performance, especially when opening and saving spreadsheets and presentations, and excellent compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.

New Features:

GENERAL

• Application icons have been added to document thumbnails inside the Start Center, making it easier to recognise the different types of documents.
• A QR Code generator has been added to the suite, making it easy to add QR codes – that can be read by mobile devices – to documents.
• Hyperlink context menus have been unified throughout the suite, and now provide the following menu entries: Open Hyperlink, Edit Hyperlink, Copy Hyperlink Location and Remove Hyperlink.
• The new Automatic Redaction feature lets your hide classified or sensitive data in a document based on text or regular expression matches.
• The help system provides faster and more precise search results, while many help pages have localized screenshots for a better user experience.

WRITER

• A Table panel has been added to the Sidebar.
• Comments can now be marked as resolved. In addition, it’s now possible to add comments to images and charts inside text documents.
• Cutting, copying and pasting of tables has been improved, with a new Paste Special menu option “Paste as Nested Table”.

CALC

Spreadsheets can be exported into a single PDF page, to get an overview of all content without it being spread over multiple pages.

IMPRESS & DRAW

In the Shape menu, a new option called Consolidate Text combines multiple selected text boxes into a single one. This is useful if you’re importing a PDF and the text content is split across many boxes.

You can directly Download LibreOffice 6.4 here