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The LibreOffice Documentation Team is responsible for the development of the English language user documentation. This page serves as a portal both for the various forms of user documentation and the development thereof.

To join the team and help out, start here.

View and Download Documentation

Official publications

The official user guides and related publications are currently hosted at:

• LibreOffice documentation website (view online, download, or purchase)

If you can't find what you're looking for, try the archive on the wiki:

• Recent publications
• Old publications

Help pages

• Online help (same as built-in help, if installed)

In the wiki

• Extensive Description of Calc Functions
• Tutorials
• HowTo
• FAQ
• Macros
• Release Notes
• Other Resources
• Third Party Resources (including video tutorials)
• Developer's Guide (UNO API)
• LibreOffice Template System

See Category:Documentation to find pages not yet linked here.

Contribute to Guide Books

Contributor's guide

The Contributor's Guide is the reference for writing and updating LibreOffice Guides books.

The guide includes the following chapters:

1. Preface
2. Joining the Documentation Team
3. Producing LibreOffice User Guides
4. Using the LibreOffice Documentation Team Website
5. Style Guide for Writers (including preferred terminology)
6. Using the Chapter Template (includes list of paragraph and character styles and when to use them, plus other information)

Other information

• Getting Access to the Cloud Service
• The NextCloud client for desktop and tablets
• User Guide development
• Taking screenshots of LibreOffice dialogs
• Guides Website

LibreOffice Guides Translation

• Translation using TDF Weblate service

Contribute to Help Pages

Help content

• LibreOffice Help Editing
  • Rules for writing Help pages contents
  • A Help XML editor
  • How to create a collateral file for help pages
  • Adding Rich Contents to Help Pages
  • Basic Syntax Diagrams
  • Editing source help pages directly in gerrit
  • Help Content Modernization
  • Proposed Extensions for XHP
  • XHP Code Snippets for KDE Editors

Understanding, Authoring and Editing LibreOffice Help (Book)

This resource was originally written for OpenOffice.org, so a lot of its contents are obsolete. However, sections like the Help File XML reference are still relevant and updated.

• Understanding, Authoring and Editing LibreOffice Help (Book)
  • How LibreOffice Help Works
  • Help File XML format Basics
  • Help File XML Reference
  • Authoring Help With OpenOffice.org (please refer to Documentation/Help instead)
  • Appendix

More on Contributing

Coordination

• Meet the Documentation Team
• Documentation Team meetings
• Documentation Forum

Tasks

• General documentation wish list
• Bugs related to documentation
  • All open bugs regarding documentation
  • Top meta bug for documentation
  • Meta bugs for missing documentation and documentation needing updating

Further resources

• Divio's Documentation System
  • Daniele Procida's PyCon AU talk on the topic: "What nobody tells you about documentation"
• Writing Extended Tips in LibreOffice Dialogs

See also

• Contribute to Websites
• About the TDF Wiki

Google Season of Docs

• 2023 edition
• 2022 edition
• 2021 edition
• 2020 edition
• 2019 edition