![]() There are a lot of rough edges in LibreOffice - even after fixes that do things like putting Header 10 after Header 9 in menus, rather than after Header 1, or stop dialogue boxes scrolling to the top when you add items to a custom animation list. Conclusion LibreOffice 3.5 may well be the best version of this open-source office suite family yet - but that's something of a backhanded compliment. It can still open Blowfish-encrypted files, but the only older version that will read AES-encrypted documents is LibreOffice 3.4.5 and if you edit the files it will save them with Blowfish encryption instead. There's also a minor compatibility issue with encrypted documents in LibreOffice's own format: the encryption switches from Blowfish to AES. ![]() Given the ubiquity of Office, file compatibility remains an issue in LibreOffice for round-tripping documents. Some documents we saved in DOCX format opened in Office 2010, but wouldn't open at all in the still-common Office 2003 (with the OOXML compatibility pack). This 'improved' dialogue still doesn't give enough information to make an informed choice: we saw it after opening a document in.DOCX format and changing one word, so either the.DOCX filter isn't robust or the program isn't checking what it can and can't preserve in the formatting But if you save a Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) file, you get a warning that it may have formatting or content that only ODF (OpenDocument Format) will preserve. It's doubly useful because the Save button on the toolbar is an arrow rather than the familiar (if archaic) disk icon. The 'save' warning at the bottom of the window in all of the LibreOffice applications is very useful - you always know at a glance if you've got changes to save, and can double-click to save them. Print dialogues are divided into multiple tabs, so if you want to supress blank pages when printing a document, you have to keep clicking through tabs of options. The equivalent of draft mode is there - if users recognise it as Web Layout, a name that makes little sense. ![]() ![]() That lets you see more text on-screen than Word's draft view, but does mean you can only see your layout if you're prepared to sacrifice the space it takes to show the page breaks and margins. ![]()
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