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2021-07-22

New Features in 7.1

The latest major release of LibreOffice, comes with better performance, improved compatibility, and many new features to boost productivity.

Performance improvements across the board: find/replace operations, spell-checking, autofilter, and more.
Impress and Draw comes with new physics-based animation effects and soft-blurred shadows.
Writer comes with new table and spreadsheet functions help you to handle data more effectively.
Improvements to Microsoft Office compatibility: change tracking in floating tables, formula import in text tables, and export of formula fields.
One the first launch of 7.1, you can choose between the "classic" menu+toolbar layout, or opt for the newer NotebookBar design.
Full release notes

Have a look at the following video prepared by the LibreOffice team to see the new features in action.

Differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice

LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice (meaning that the development took a different approach to continue growing). It continues adding new features, improve Microsoft Office compatibility, and has regular releases with security updates.

Visit Wikipedia's article on LibreOffice to learn more about the project split.

The following tables compares the progress of these two projects.

Image retrieved from LibreOffice's website on March 12^th, 2021.

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Writer

A full-featured word processing and desktop publishing tool. It's simple enough for a quick memo, but powerful enough to create full fledge books with contents, diagrams, indexes, table of content, bibliography, and more.

Calc

A spreadsheet program easy to learn for newcomers, and powerful enough for any professional data miners and number crunchers whom appreciate the comprehensive range of advanced functions.

Impress

Perfect for creating and editing slides with versatility thanks to different editing and view modes.

Normal: General editing
Outline: Organizing and outlining your text content
Notes: Viewing and editing the notes attached to a slide
Handout: Producing paper-based material
Slide Sorter: Thumbnail sheet view that lets you quickly locate and order your slides

Draw

Lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan. It is a an excellent tool for producing technical drawings, brochures, posters and many other documents. Draw lets you manipulate graphical objects, group them, crop them, use objects in 3D and so much more.

Base

Is a full-featured desktop database front end, designed to meet the needs of various users. Provides native-support drivers for some of the most widely employed multi-user database engines: MySQL/MariaDB, Adabas D, MS Access and PostgreSQL. It has built-in support for JDBC/ODBC-standard drivers which allows to connect to virtually any other existing database engine.

Math

$Interface for Math$

A formula editor that can be invoked in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, enabling the user to insert perfectly formatted mathematical and scientific formulas. Include a wide range of elements, from fractions, terms with exponents and indices, integrals, and mathematical functions, to inequalities, systems of equations, and matrices.