There are numerous under-the-hood changes, and feature additions that should elevate your user experience with LibreOffice programs. If you wanted to unlock protected change tracking of DOCX files, you should now be able to do it without any hiccups. Furthermore, if you had a missing embedded video file when exporting a PPTX file, that has been fixed. When importing a DOCX/PPTX file, LibreOffice 7.4 now doesn't miss fetching the tables, images, and linked media files. With the upgrade, several refinements for lighting extruded custom shapes were worked upon to make rendering more compatible with MS Office binary formats. So, you can work with any image file format you want now. LibreOffice 7.4 added support for WebP image import/export. It is now the predominantly used image format (developed by Google) on the internet with the best compression/quality balance. If you recently tried saving an image from the internet, it is most likely a WebP file. You can enable the LanguageTool integration under the Language settings. Our team uses it to proofread and edit articles as well. If you did not know, LanguageTool is a remarkable open-source alternative to tools like Grammarly. With LibreOffice Writer, one can use LanguageTool API for grammar checking. LanguageTool Integration Credits: LibreOffice Let us explore a few things about the major additions. Experimental dark mode support for Windows 10/11.New macro scripting resources for power users.

Import/Export enhancements for DOCX, PPTX, and a couple other file types.

Master slide improvement for Impress & Draw.

Improved typographic settings in Writer.

Support for 16,384 columns in spreadsheets.

New open-source grammar checker integration, i.e., LanguageTool.

🆕 LibreOffice 7.4: OverviewĪs usual, every LibreOffice update brings in enhancements to all of its programs that include Writer, Calc, Impress & Draw, Base, Chart, and Math. Here, let me highlight the best parts of the release.

While this is great news for users migrating away from MS Office, the upgrade also introduces some cool features. With LibreOffice 7.4, The Document Foundation mentions that the development is now focused on “ interoperability” with Microsoft's proprietary file formats. LibreOffice 7.4 community edition is a major upgrade to the previous release after six months.

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