Install LibreOffice 6.4 in Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 19.04. LibreOffice Office Suite 6.4 includes : Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing).
LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard, the Open Document Format (ODF). With LibreOffice, you have maximum control over your data and content – and you can export your work in many different formats including PDF.
LibreOffice 6.4
The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 6.4, a new major release providing better performance, especially when opening and saving spreadsheets and presentations, and excellent compatibility with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files.
LibreOffice 6.4 is the first new release available in 2020. During the year, the community will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the best free office suite ever at several Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) events in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Several volunteers will present the project milestones and discuss the future of the office suite, on the desktop and in the cloud.
LibreOffice 6.4’s new features have been developed by a large community of code contributors: 75% of commits are from developers employed by companies sitting in the Advisory Board like Collabora, Red Hat and CIB, plus other organizations, and 25% are from individual volunteers.
In addition, there is a global community of individual volunteers taking care of other fundamental activities such as quality assurance, software localization, user interface design and user experience, editing of help system and documentation, plus free software and open document standards advocacy.
In addition, the new version provides some interesting 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.
LIBREOFFICE ONLINE
- In Writer, table properties can be easily modified from the sidebar, and the document Table of Contents can be fully managed by users.
- In Calc, the Function Wizard is now offering full features, and a wide range of options for selected charts has been added to the spreadsheet sidebar.
Download LibreOffice 6.4
LibreOffice 6.4 is immediately available from the following link: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. Minimum requirements for proprietary operating systems are Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Apple macOS 10.9. Builds of the latest LibreOffice Online source code are available as Docker images: https://hub.docker.com/r/libreoffice/online/