{"id":154798,"date":"2016-02-11T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154798"},"modified":"2016-02-11T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T07:01:22","slug":"libreoffice-5-1-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/154798-libreoffice-5-1-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice 5.1 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.documentfoundation.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/the-document-foundation-announces-libreoffice-5-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Document Foundation has launched<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0LibreOffice 5.1, its latest open-source office suite.<\/p>\n<p>LibreOffice 5.1 offers a reorganised user interface and several improved features targeted at enterprise deployments: better support for ODF 1.2, interoperability with proprietary document formats, and file management on remote servers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLibreOffice has been downloaded 120 million times since the launch in January 2011,\u201d said The Document Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office suite is deployed by large organisations in every continent, with the latest addition being the Italian Defense Staff with over 100,000 desktops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Improvements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>User Interface:<\/strong>\u00a0Provides faster and more convenient access to its most used features. A new menu has been added to each of the applications: Style (Writer), Sheet (Calc), and Slide (Impress and Draw).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interoperability:<\/strong> Compatibility with proprietary document formats has been improved. In addition, filters have been added for Apple Keynote 6, Microsoft Write, and Gnumeric files.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spreadsheet Functions:<\/strong> Calc\u2019s formula engine has been improved with features addressing restrictions in table structured references and sticky column\/row anchors, interoperability with OOXML spreadsheets, and compatibility with ODF 1.2.<\/li>\n<li><strong>File Access on Remote Servers:<\/strong> Files on remote file servers such as Sharepoint, Google Drive, and Alfresco can now be accessed from the File menu, with read and write options, without the need for a dialog window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on LibreOffice<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/134256-libreoffice-5-0-launched.html\">LibreOffice 5.0 launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Document Foundation has launched LibreOffice 5.1, its latest open-source office suite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,35398,35400],"class_list":["post-154798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-libreoffice-5-1","tag-the-document-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154810,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154798\/revisions\/154810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}