LibreOffice 7.5.2 Community is the second minor version of the free and volunteer-supported office suite for desktop productivity. This version is available for download for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux.
The most significant enhancements in the LibreOffice 7.5 family are detailed in the following paragraphs.
General
- Major improvements in dark mode support
- New, more colorful, and vibrant application and MIME type icons
- A document type filter in the Start Center
- A new improved version of the single toolbar user interface
- Improvements made to PDF export
- Font embedding feature on macOS
- Font features dialog with several new options
- Addition of a zoom slider in the macro editor
Writer
- Significant improvements made to bookmarks
- Objects can be marked as decorative for better accessibility
- New types have been added to content controls, enhancing the quality of PDF forms
- A new automatic accessibility check option has been added to the Tools menu
- Initial automatic translation is available, based on DeepL translation APIs
- Several improvements in spell checking
Calc
- Data tables are now supported in charts
- The Function Wizard can now search by descriptions
- "Written out" number formats have been added
- Conditional formatting conditions are no longer case-sensitive
- Correct behavior when entering numbers with a single prefix apostrophe (')
Impress and Draw
- A new set of default table styles, and the creation of table styles
- Table styles can be customized, saved as master elements, and exported
- Objects can be dragged and dropped into the Navigator
- It is now possible to crop inserted videos in the slide while they play
- The presenter console can also function as a regular window instead of full screen
Update
For users sharing documents with Microsoft Office or migrating from Microsoft Office, it is recommended to regularly check for new versions of LibreOffice, as progress is so rapid that each new version significantly improves upon the previous one.
The version LibreOffice 7.5 is available for major desktop operating systems, mobile platforms, and the cloud. Users can obtain technical support from volunteers on user mailing lists and on the Ask LibreOffice site. For enterprise-class deployment, the Document Foundation recommends the LibreOffice Enterprise application family from ecosystem partners, offering many dedicated features and additional benefits such as SLAs (Service Level Agreements).
