14 DAY TRIAL // While Microsoft Office continues to be the number one productivity suite worldwide, not everybody is willing to pay to be able to work with their documents.
This is how LibreOffice has become such a popular alternative to Microsoft Office. And the effort The Document Foundation – the organization in charge of LibreOffice’s development – puts into getting everything right has made the application incredibly advanced.
A new version of LibreOffice is therefore available to download right now on all supported desktop operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS – both Apple Silicon and Intel versions are supported.
LibreOffice 7.4 comes with lots of improvements, including support for WebP images, a search field for the Extension Manager, and lots of performance optimizations.
Writer is getting new typographic settings for hyphenation, as well as better change tracking in the footnote area. If you use Impress, it now comes with support for document themes, while Calc users are being provided with a new menu item to search for sheet names.
LibreOffice 7.4, an impressive project
As said, the development put into getting LibreOffice right is impressive, to say the least, and version 7.4 makes no exception.
“LibreOffice 7.4 Community’s new features have been developed by 147 contributors: 72% of code commits are from the 52 developers employed by three companies sitting in TDF’s Advisory Board – Collabora, Red Hat and allotropia – or other organizations (including The Document Foundation), and 28% are from 95 individual volunteers,” TDF says.
“In addition, 528 volunteers have provided localizations in 158 languages. LibreOffice 7.4 Community is released in 120 different language versions, more than any other free or proprietary software, and as such can be used in the native language (L1) by over 5.4 billion people worldwide. In addition, over 2.3 billion people speak one of those 120 languages as their second language (L2),” the organization continued.