LibreOffice 5.1.0

Platform Compatibility

• LibreOffice for Windows allows input of arbitrary Unicode characters by typing the hexadecimal code and then pressing Alt+X

• LibreOffice for Android provides at ODF support

  Performance

• LibreOffice for Windows is significantly faster than previous versions

User Interface

• Reorganization of the menus in Writer, including the addition of a Styles menu

• Reorganization of the menus in Calc, including the addition of a Sheet menu

• Reorganization of the menus in Impress, including the addition of a Slide menu

• Reorganization of the Area and Line content panels in the Properties Sidebar

• New Chart sidebar, with some limitations, to edit several chart options

• An "AutoCorrect Options" item has been added in the spell checking context menu, to enter the autocorrect replacement table when there's no satisfactory suggestion in the "Always correct to" submenu

• The Spelling Dialog now has a toolbar for pasting and inserting special characters

  Interoperability

• Export of the modified VBA stream back to binary Microso formats and OOXML, with some limitations

• Addition of a Open Remote File item to Start Screen and File menu, to open les on remote resources such as SharePoint, Google Drive and Alfresco

• Addition of a Save to Remote Server to the File menu, to save les on remote resources such as SharePoint, Google Drive and Alfresco

Writer

• Addition of new contour and spacing controls to the Wrap content panel

Calc

• Added statistics regressions - linear, logarithmic and power - with a new dialog window to calculate them

• Option to search formatted display strings using the Find bar and "Find & Replace" dialog

• Several changes to table structured references and sticky end column/row anchors, for improved interoperability with OOXML les and consistency of behaviour with legacy spreadsheets

• Added WEEKNUM and ISOWEEKNUM functions, strictly compliant with ODF 1.2 (with additional changes to legacy WEEKNUM functions, for interoperability purposes)

• Cell reference edge added to alignment section of Calc Sidebar

• Cell styles added to Properties Pane in Calc Sidebar Impress & Draw

• Added two new toolbox icons to toggle the Mode Tab bar, to select the Working mode among the 7 available: top half, views to edit contents (Slide, Notes, Outline and Slide Sorter), bottom half, views to edit Masters (Slide, Notes, Handouts)

• Master slide view has a different background color, to make it visually different from the content editing view

• The Shape Properties dialog for enhanced shapes now shows control points, and enables editing them by changing numeric values

• Added a new button on the presenter console to restart the timer of the slideshow without restarting the slideshow itself

• OpenGL transitions have been ported to OpenGL 2.1+, removing

support for very old GPUs but allowing a better usage of modern ones

• Four new OpenGL 2.1+ transitions have been added

• Slide Transitions have been grouped for easy selection, with a new icon based selection palette added to Impress Sidebar

  Import/Export Filters

  • Import of Gnumeric files (does not work on Windows)

• Import of Microsoft Write (.wri) and Apple Keynote 6 (.key) files