By Ndidi Folasade Ogboi For the past two months, I’ve been working on adding more templates to LibreOffice Writer as part of my Outreachy project. My goal has been to create functional templates that users need the most. I created these templates based on what you told us in our
Category: User Experience
LibreOffice Themes will replace the color customization
Since the first implementation of a dark color theme we continuously improved the customization of LibreOffice. In a GSoC projects this year, Sahil Gautam made it possible to not only change the application colors but also what is defined by the operating system respectively the desktop environment. This resulted in a
Peer-to-peer collaboration with LibreOffice
A while ago, Simon Phipps, member of the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation, shared the idea to introduce a peer-to-peer collaboration built in to desktop LibreOffice without the requirement for a cloud provider. This idea has received a lot of attention inside the organization and the design team
Convenient handling of shortcuts
Shortcuts are a major topic for user experience. Novices are advised to learn basic shortcuts beyond the famous Ctrl+C/X/V like Ctrl+1/2/3.. to quickly change the paragraph style to heading 1/2/3… in Writer. Once you have learned those combinations you never want to unlearn and to change the muscle memory. But
Results from the survey about LibreOffice Impress
Similar to the questionnaires about LibreOffice Draw (see first and second blog post) and LibreOffice Calc (see this post) we now run a survey on LibreOffice Impress to learn how the program is utilized, what features are used most frequently, and what users see as positive and negative and what
Community support needed: We want to use our users personal data
What comes to your mind, when you ask yourself why people use LibreOffice? A “stunning user experience” is likely not in the top list. And unfortunately we share this problem with a lot of user facing Free Software. And there is a common reason: We value the privacy of our
Results from the Survey about LibreOffice Calc
Introduction Earlier this year we run a survey on LibreOffice Calc. It was inspired by a similar questionnaire for LibreOffice Draw (see first and second blog post). The Calc survey was used to learn about how Calc is being used, what features are most important to users and where they
Help us to improve LibreOffice Calc by completing our survey
We are conducting a survey to learn more about LibreOffice Calc users and to understand where we should focus our efforts to improve the software. The survey consists of questions related to your usage of Calc and its features. We will ask about how frequently you use Calc, how large
The Dos and Don’ts of Writer Templates
As we have seen in the previous posts (1st and 2nd) there are many advantages of using templates. And you should use them whenever is possible, they will help you with consistency across documents and will make your workflow more efficient. So where should you start when creating a template?
The Dos and Don’ts of Impress Templates
Don’t substitute templates by sample documents Templates contain generic content and structure, and are meant to create multiple documents. In contrast, a document is intended for a single use. While both types are more or less the same, the advantage of templates is the handling within the program (→Template Manager).