LibreOffice 5.1 launched

Thor187 said:
Meh, it's sluggish as hell
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What OS & Hardware you running it on?
Tested 5.1 yesterday on Win10 newish PC and it was quick and fresh.
Much improved from the days of OpenOffice/StarOffice

See new features:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0pdzjvYW9RHSwdRnZfaxAWICrkBrQl7k

Prefer it to M$ Office, and as a bonus it also works on Linux.

See The best desktop office suite, LibreOffice, gets better on zdnet for a review
http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-best-desktop-office-suite-libreoffice-gets-better/
 
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I have MS Office on the company issued laptop and Libre on my personal laptop. I wish Libre would just copy the Microsoft Office themes / menus to make it easier when switching between MS Office and Libre. They have already copied everything else.
 
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system32 said:
What OS & Hardware you running it on?
Tested 5.1 yesterday on Win10 newish PC and it was quick and fresh.
Much improved from the days of OpenOffice/StarOffice

See new features:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0pdzjvYW9RHSwdRnZfaxAWICrkBrQl7k

Prefer it to M$ Office, and as a bonus it also works on Linux.

See The best desktop office suite, LibreOffice, gets better on zdnet for a review
http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-best-desktop-office-suite-libreoffice-gets-better/
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Does it allow you to change localisation settings? Last time I used it, it took all it's locale setting from a standard based on your location. It was wrong, obviously, but more importantly, couldn't be fixed. That was a deal-breaker.

Edit: Computer says no, so I'm forced to use the locale settings some arsehole from god-knows-where has decided are appropriate for South Africa. Guess I'll pass on this version too.
 
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Drunkard #1 said:
Does it allow you to change localisation settings? Last time I used it, it took all it's locale setting from a standard based on your location. It was wrong, obviously, but more importantly, couldn't be fixed. That was a deal-breaker.
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Did you try clicking on the dropdowns?
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Drunkard #1 said:
Looks like nothing much has changed in 10 years. Still can't set things to my taste. How arrogant does a developer need to be that he thinks he knows what the user wants, better than the user.

Anyway, like I said, it's a deal-breaker.
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You aren't fooling anyone, you were always going to carry on pirating the MS version anyway.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
You aren't fooling anyone, you were always going to carry on pirating the MS version anyway.
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No, I'm open to other options. But not options that won't allow me to chose my decimal and thousands delimiters. Why won't they allow that? Are they trying to be obtuse?
 
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https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/29144/how-to-set-decimal-separator/
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Tried it ten years ago, doesn't work properly (causes superfluous spaces), and is, at best, a jury rigged solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Do...a_dot_(.)_as_decimal_sign_instead_of_a_comma?
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Doesn't work at all - there is no predefined locale that uses the combination of separators that I want to use.

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ginggs said:
That is the one from 10 years ago.
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My problem is still popping up in forum posts every few weeks, so obviously nothing's changed.

So now we're getting to your issue.
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Yes, I want to set separators myself, not rely on some generic, out-dated standard that Libre Office is trying to force on it's users.
 
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Sheesh. A little post about a new version of software escalated into this kind of personal attack. Well done boys.
 
Have just installed it on Windows 7 and there was complete breakage - almost nothing worked. One of the many things wrong was that the menus at the top of the screen were not visible. I fixed as follows, in case anyone else has had this:

Click along the top of the window where the menus should be. This at least shows the drop-down menus.
Probe blindly until the drop-down for the Tools item shows (Third from the left).
Select options.
Go to LibreOffice > View and uncheck the box that says Use OpenGL for all rendering. The options menu would freeze on each click so it was necessary to close and re-open it on each step, but finally got there.
Close the package and then re-open it. Fixed.

Hopefully the next release does not have these issues.
 
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