Documentation/Third Party Resources

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    Below is a list of how-tos, tutorials, and other guides, including links to third party sites. The official user documentation is listed elsewhere. For development-related documents, go to development learning materials

    Some third party publications do cost money. If you find a paid link on this page that is not marked as such, please add a simple notice: (PAID).

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    Note:
    Wiki resources are currently mixed in with third party resources. These need to be moved to Documentation/Publications.

    Tutorials

    General

    Writer

    Calc

    Base

    Video tutorials

    We hope to develop or link to useful video tutorials. Do you know of a good one to list here? When we get enough of them, we'll start a separate wiki page.

    • Great collection of short video tutorials for Writer, Calc, Draw, Base
    https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFrugalComputerGuy/playlists
    • A major collection of video tutorials
    http://www.spoken-tutorial.org/search/node/libreoffice
    http://youtu.be/97EvPYgY3Js
    • Create Firefox Personas for LibreOffice 4
    http://youtu.be/AZeZzxN83HE
    • CMIS - How-To get Content Management Information Systems working in LibreOffice (5-6mins)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bbnyAjMeM&feature=youtu.be
    • Edit web pages (hyperlinks)
    http://youtu.be/_rEzl--Si8U
    • Show or hide page numbers (footer) on first page
    http://youtu.be/o-vHHgdeZ5M
    • Show or hide page number (footer) on last page
    http://youtu.be/FAbtRoIP8-o
    • Attach comments to text ranges
    http://youtu.be/9ImnaTY65gA
    • Gradient background in presentation
    http://youtu.be/a0VLt5zpDfE
    • Create random (word) lists
    http://youtu.be/O0LVAjwkqLw
    • Create your own calendar
    http://youtu.be/kWEFi8u_qzI
    • Make a seating plan
    http://youtu.be/MnKbnOq6xkM
    • Count the number of repeated occurrence in spreadsheet
    http://youtu.be/L8IBlbWd6VI
    • Install and uninstall LibreOffice 4 on Debian Linux
    http://youtu.be/tiw2mn1GpUQ
    • Fill in the blanks in LibreOffice 4 - Make a cloze test
    http://youtu.be/faCVQqJcsdY
    • Conditional formatting in LibreOffice 4
    http://youtu.be/zXQnBGMIZnY
    • LibreOffice 4 video tutorials - description of functions
    http://www.fetchiz.com/index.php/en/online-help/libre-office-4.html
    • LibreOffice 4 and Xfce on Debian Linux
    http://youtu.be/OJYoIZ4WwKY
    • LibreOffice 4 and IBus on Debian Linux - Input Chinese characters
    http://youtu.be/K0TLAvkRNYc
    • Video Tutorials about Free Software includes LibreOffice step-by-step tutorial
    http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFrugalComputerGuy/
    http://www.thefrugalcomputerguy.com/
    • A collection of many videos to help see how to do things in LibreOffice
    http://www.ilearnthings.com/category/libreoffice/
    • Editable PDFs. This video (by Simon Phipps) shows how to create a "Hybrid PDF".
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuVZcygoZsI&feature=youtu.be
    • A spoken guide to getting the Orca screen-reader working. Not for sighted users
    http://www.che.iitb.ac.in/faculty/km/08-orca_word-processor.mp3

    Base

    • Thorough course, specific for Base by TheFrugalComputerGuy:
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy7Kah3WzqrEerJ0VPNWVaR4CYHMr4wmV
    • LibreOffice Base tutorial on how to create a relational database with forms, so you can add records without code
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du1WjROQBpE
    • Full course on Base by Sean Johnson
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6XUpvYwuPg&list=PLQORZjfSPqSkFSFHR32WlfXhen0C2HyAi

    Installation guides

    See the installation instructions page on the main website for current instructions for all platforms.

    For Linux users, the older but very detailed wiki page is still useful:

    For advanced users:

    Feature comparisons

    LibreOffice vs. Microsoft Office

    LibreOffice vs. Apple iWork

    Technical details

    Other links for general users

    Languages support:

    To speed up LibreOffice try the hints from this Arch link:

    User profiles. Renaming the User Profile is a good way to reset to "factory defaults".

    For students

    For corporate users

    For large scale deployments and administration on multiple machines.