LibreOffice – Ryan and Debi & Toren

LibreOffice – Set Image as Background/Watermark

Posted on August 30, 2022August 31, 2022

I don’t do this very often, but occasionally I need to write a letter or something of that sort and I want to use an image as a background to…

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Replacing Paragraph Breaks with Double Paragraph Breaks in LibreOffice Writer

Posted on March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

Here’s the problem I was facing. I had a document with a lot of text that I had to analyze. The text had been copied from a spreadsheet and pasted…

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LibreOffice Calc – Conditional Formatting

Posted on March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

I haven’t used this feature of spreadsheet software as much as I probably should, but I have a spreadsheet I have been working with a lot lately and conditional formatting…

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LibreOffice – address label merge (from spreadsheet)

Posted on September 14, 2021September 15, 2021

I’ve been using LibreOffice for over a decade and have only had to do an address label merge twice in that time – both of which have been in the…

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LibreOffice Calc – VLookup with dates

Posted on August 22, 2021August 22, 2021

In a different post on this blog, I showed how to use Vlookup to match lists. Someone commented on that post and indicated that it didn’t work with dates. It…

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LibreOffice – KDE Integration Package for Skinning/Color Management

Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

Super simple note for future reference and for anyone else running into this issue. I upgraded my version of LibreOffice in Kubuntu 20.10 to a pre-release version to fix a…

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LibreOffice – How To Change Icons to a Darker Theme

Posted on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

I prefer darker themes for my desktop environment (Kubuntu 20.04) and browser (Brave). For the most part, this isn’t a problem, but it does cause an issue with some applications,…

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LibreOffice – exporting high-resolution TIFF/TIF files

Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

As a scholar who regularly publishes work with charts and graphs, I’m often confronted with varied requirements from publishers for the format in which they want the charts and graphs….

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LibreOffice 6.4.3.2 – Not Showing Greek Letters/Symbols

Posted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

I ran into an issue the other day that ended up taking me hours to solve, in part because I couldn’t find any other solutions online, which is pretty unusual…

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LibreOffice Calc: Graphs with Two y-axes with Different Scales

Posted on March 28, 2020March 28, 2020

While a bit technical, it’s occasionally useful to plot multiple data series that have very different scales in the same chart. Let me give an example to illustrate. Let’s say…

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