Marketing/DistictiveFeatures

= Why LibreOffice? Messaging - Why? in a nutshell =


 * LibreOffice is the most complete Free and Open Source Office Suite
 * LibreOffice has the fastest growing number of features: Thanks to one of the fastest development pace in the industry. Twice a year a new version is released that ships many new features. Further more many additional releases with improvements and bugfixes are made
 * LibreOffice is a community powered software: anyone can join and each contribution counts
 * LibreOffice is one of the fastest growing communities worldwide: It is available in over a hundred different languages
 * LibreOffice is independent: It is run by the people and for the people through the Document Foundation, its representative entity.
 * Headquartered in Europe (Berlin), The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice project are independent, free from vendor capture and governmental data collection and surveillance.

= Features unique for LibreOffice = Below initial list by MM See full list mentioned here Features to be found on the various feature pages: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-3-new-features-and-fixes/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-6-new-features-and-fixes/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes/

LibreOffice - Collection of all new features - & selection to highlight
Work in Progress This file collects all the features mentioned for the various releases. This counts for over 500 ! items, of which roughly 40-60% (??) will be unique in LibreOffice .. So the idea is (was) to make this collection a clear overview, simple to search, to choose which to show/highlight.

Page in Silverstripe
LibreOffice?"
 * Adreas created a sub-page to Features in Silverstripe with the title "Why
 * Cor likes the two colum table as used in e.g. '3-6-new-features-and-fixes/' best.

filter work

 * Lots of extra Import filters: Lotus Word Pro, MS Works, Visio (all versions), WordPerfect (all versions), Corel Draw, MS Publisher, MS Word for Mac 5.1, Write Now 4.0, MacWrite Pro 1.5, AppleWorks 6.0


 * ODF import/export: embed corporate palettes, performance improvements, fast flat-ODF filters, embedding of media files (3.5), font embedding into the document (4.1, improves interoperability)


 * OOXML import/export improvements: many custom-shapes fixes, smart-art import, ink annotations import, many VML fixes, EMF+ rendering, huge amounts of heavy-lifting bug-fixing work too.


 * Performance improvements for RTF, DOC, DOCX etc.

UI improvements

 * Live / interactive word-count in status - bar and/or dialog
 * New UI / layout dialogs - cleaner & better localisation (4.0)


 * Font preview (also internationalized) & style preview in the UI
 * Crisper font rendering


 * Easy-to-use header / footer insertion in Writer & attractive page-breaks rendered between pages not in-line
 * Ctrl+F to find in a Firefox-like in-window search-bar


 * Save-as dialog is less confusing around file formats
 * Arabic/Indic (Right to Left) support: dozens of fixes


 * Personas - theme your toolbar: shared with mozilla
 * Flatter, more modern UI look


 * Much improved high-quality photo scaling to avoid aliasing
 * Easier export of graphics and many other improvements in handling (3.6, 4.0)


 * Fast applying of the last used colour with split colour buttons in Writer and Calc (3.6)


 * New template manager dialog
 * Improved presenter console

Writer

 * Add range comments: comment on a chunk of text not only to a location (4.0)
 * Different header and footer on the first page without using a separate page style. Also improves interoperabillity. (4.0)


 * Navigator lets you unfold one heading as usual in a tree view (3.3)
 * New easy-to-use dialog box for title pages (3.3)


 * Table AutoFormats records a lot extra properties (3.6)
 * Lots of work on rendering / layout improvements for interoperabiliy. Too numerous and individually uninteresting to list


 * Use of Microsoft Word form field documents as intended: with tab
 * Embedded image / photo rotation now possible (4.1)

Greek and Arabic mode for bullets and numbering (3.4 - and others? later?)

Impress pieces

 * Android bluetooth remote-control with slide previews & notes install from the google store & play
 * New Impress master pages + widescreen format support


 * Photo album slide-deck builder (4.1)
 * Embedding of media files (3.5)

calc bits

 * Color scales & data-bars rendered in cells
 * More border styles (also improves interoperability)


 * Multi-inline input bar
 * DataPilot improvements: named ranges and unlimited number of fields and more (3.4)


 * Auto-filter and sorting: improvemed UI and more options (3.5, 3.6)
 * Unlimited number of rules for conditional formatting (3.5)


 * Named ranges can be set per sheet (3.4)
 * Support for 1000 sheets (3.5)


 * Improved calc copy/move sheet dialog
 * Additional sheet protection options (3.3)


 * More functions in Tab context menu (3.5, 3.6)
 * More options in the cell context menu (3.6)


 * Import arbitrary XML files with schema GUI (4.0)
 * Much improved CSV import (3.3, 3.6)


 * Date handling improved, more flexible and less intrusive (3.5, 3.6, ..)
 * Stepped lines / charts (4.1)


 * Numerous new spreadsheet functions (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 4.1)
 * More-familiar default key bindings (3.3)

Math

 * New symbols (3.5)
 * Better integration with Help (3.6)
 * Interactive in-document formula editing (experimental mode, 3.3)

Base

 * Support of Read-Only database registration (3.3)
 * Integrated PostgreSQL native driver (3.5)

localisations

 * We ship 100+ in our default installl

Misc

 * Single MSI file with everything embedded for Windows installation
 * CMIS integration: Sharepoint, Alfresco, Nuexo


 * Built-in lightproof simple proof-reading / grammar checker
 * Much improved 'label' pages geometry, selection & config.