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Questions about LibreOffice and the included applications (Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, Math). Unless the question is a general how-to, user should always tell which version of LibreOffice in use.

LibreOffice is the default office suite in Ubuntu and its official flavours. Some included applications such as Draw and Base may not be pre-installed in Ubuntu and its official flavours; user can install selective or all included applications from the Ubuntu package repositories.

LibreOffice included applications:

  • Word processor (Writer)
  • Spreadsheet creator (Calc)
  • Presentation editor (Impress)
  • Database manager (Base)
  • Diagramming and charting tool (Draw)
  • Equation editor (Math)

Citations in LibreOffice can be managed with plugins for the citation managers Mendeley and Zotero.

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LibreOffice always shows recovery process at startup due to failing recovery items

LibreOffice always starts with the recovery process for me now. It has a number of 'documents to recover' for which recovery fails. I have no need for these documents anymore. How to tell LibreOffice to give up?
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How to copy/paste a table from LibreOffice Calc to LibreOffice Writer

I am trying to copy/paste a 4 column table from LibreOffice Calc to LibreOffice Writer but when I paste it, it makes a table extraction from Calc. I also created a table in LibreOffice Writer using the Table tool in Writer an tried to paste the data…
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How to wrap text in a cell in LibreOffice Calc

How can I wrap text in a single cell in LibreOffice Calc??
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How to type science equations in Libre Office?

How to insert equations or formula while writing notes in Libre Office?
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LibreOffice Spell Checker doesn't work?

I was a little surprised to discover that in LibreOffice (3.5.4.2), the spell check doesn't actually work. I was surprised since spell checkers have been around since....80's? Not a difficult thing. I am running Ubuntu 12.04, on a relatively new…
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No page number in first page

I am writing a document and it is required that the first page (title page) has no page number and the second page starts with page 2. I don't know how to remove the footed only in page 1 and leaving the footer in the rest of the pages as is. Can…
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LibreOffice Calc - Delete empty rows

I'm using LibreOffice Calc and my data sheet contains a couple of empty rows. For example: I'd like to know how I can delete all empty rows from the selection. As a workaround I've tried to copy the selection, remove it, then "paste special", tick…
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How to change a LibreOffice Impress presentation from 4:3 to 16:9 ratio?

This is possible in Microsoft Office via File->Page Setup, but in Impress no such option is available?. Is it possible to at all? If so how?
Uri Herrera
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How to open Mac documents .page, on LibreOffice

I need to open text documents. "page" and keynote presentations also keep in osx, how do I open or install this extension in libreoffice?
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Moving a pane in LibreOffice back to the main window

I accidentally moved a pane in LibreOffice from it's nice docked position to a new window. Now I can't move back it. As you can see, the Slide Pane is floating as it's own window and not docked like Tasks, etc.
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How do I stop LibreOffice from removing forward slashes around text and making that text italic?

When I type in LibreOffice: /usr/dirk/documents it is shown on the screen as usrdirk/documents The forward slashes around usr are gone, usr is shown in italics. Any idea which setting I have to make to get this working properly ?
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Type Greek letters as well as physics symbols in LibreOffice Impress?

I am preparing a presentation on some physics concept for which I need to write e.g. phi, phi dagger, and Hamiltoninan symbol. Is there a way to do it with LibreOffice impress?
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What is the difference between "Save as" and "Save a copy"?

Programs like LibreOffice and PDF readers sometimes need to open a file (say, the user downloaded and opened a file from Firefox) as read-only. When that is the case, and the user wants to save the file for later, the user has the option to Save…
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Where are the shapes in LibreOffice Draw?

I haven't been able to draw anything useful on LibreOffice Draw. Where are the different shapes to make diagrams? All I can find are basic shapes that I would find on Microsoft Word (squares, circles, stars, arrows, etc). Will I be able to make more…
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Does LibreOffice have an "Outline View" similar to Microsoft 2010?

I need to know where to find and how to use something similar to the outline view like in Microsoft Word?
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