LibreOffice's Writer providers a new menu to help you navigate documents more easily Next, click the up or down arrow to the right to navigate through all the instances of the document element you selected. Click View, Toolbars, Find (or press Ctrl+F), then select the document element you want to find Tables, Text Frames, Footnote and so on from the drop-down menu to the right of the Find box at the bottom of the window. To use it, you'll first need to enable it. Version 6.0 improves document navigation further, thanks to a new drop-down menu in the Find toolbar. LibreOffice Writer has had a useful Navigator tool in its Sidebar for a while now. WINNER: LibreOffice 6 New navigation tools Nor does MS Office provide any built-in option to export as ePub or any other ebook format. However, overall, Office's file compatibility is more limited than LibreOffice, which support dozens of popular and obscure formats, including ClarisWorks Cwk and QuarkXPress Qxd files. Microsoft Office has a slightly unfair advantage here, given that it doesn't have to fix any problems with its own file formats. You can export documents as ebooks in LibreOffice 6.0 In addition, LibreOffice 6 adds support for exporting documents in the EPUB format (under File, Export As, 'Export as EPUB'), meaning you can now create your own ebooks. We tested this with a few documents that have thrown up problems in the past, and were pleased to find that our formatting now remains intact. In the past, your carefully crafted documents might have suffered from formatting weirdness when shared between MS Office programs and LibreOffice, but that should hopefully a thing of the past. Better file compatibilityĬompatibility is always a concern when using a non-Microsoft office suite, so it's great that LibreOffice version 6 (technically the more secure version 6.0.1.1) improves the suite's support for MS Office formats, including Doc, Docx and Pptx (PowerPoint) files. Off the back of its recent update, we've compared the two to see if Microsoft still holds the crown for office software.
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While it would normally be unfair to compare a free product to a premium one, in reality, LibreOffice has long held its ground against Microsoft Office and is certainly worth considering if you're unwilling to fork out for an expensive license. Version six of The Document Foundation's LibreOffice released back in January, making some major changes and adding new features to the popular open-source Microsoft Office alternative.