LibreOffice Calc also inherited the new Arrows toolbox from LibreOffice Draw and Impress, along with new spreadsheet functions, ODF 1.2 compatibility, support for fraction number formats, the ability to load default cell styles from a file in the user profile, various improvements to pivot tables, as well as support for enabling wildcards in formulas by default for new documents. New Arrows toolbox provides a bunch of drawing tools that were previously available only for LibreOffice Draw and Impress, borderless padding is now displayed by default, and you can now set the small capitals character property. Table Styles have been implemented as well with support for importing and exporting ODF table styles. The LibreOffice Writer received a new "Go to Page" dialog so you can easily jump to another page of a lengthy document. You can see them all in action in the screenshot gallery below. These include the default look with toolbars, the Single Toolbar UI, the Sidebar UI with a Single Toolbar, and a new Notebook Bar UI. While still experimental, MUFFIN is the big LibreOffice interface change that users requested for so long, providing a total of four different UI styles that will change depending on whether you're deploying the office suite on a laptop or desktop computer. In fact, the tasty new UI concept is a "personal" user interface capable of adapting to your needs and the device's screen you're currently using for editing LibreOffice documents. Probably the most important feature of LibreOffice 5.3 is its new user-friendly and flexible user interface concept called MUFFIN (My User Friendly & Flexible INterface), which many reported last year as a Microsoft Office-like Ribbon UI. In six years we have attracted over 1,100 new developers and, thanks to this large community, during the last two years we have had an average of 300 people active on the source code." Here's what's new in LibreOffice 5.3 "In 2010, only a few people were betting on our capability of attracting a large number of code contributors, which are instrumental for the success of a large code base. "LibreOffice is backed by a fantastic community of developers," says Michael Meeks, a member of the board of The Document Foundation. Since then, LibreOffice 5.3 received multiple Alpha and Beta milestones that implemented numerous features that we laid down for your reading pleasure below. The development of LibreOffice 5.3 started last year in October, when The Document Foundation Co Founder, Marketing & PR Italo Vignoli informed us about the first bug hunting session for the upcoming office suite, which took place on October 21, 2016. ![]() ![]() Today, February 1, 2017, The Document Foundation, a non-profit organization established to promote and advance the development of the open-source LibreOffice office suite, announced the general availability of LibreOffice 5.3.
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