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LibreOffice Timeline


Discover the history of LibreOffice and its predecessors! Here's a quick summary – and then read on for the details... 1985Star-Writer I, written by Marco Börries, is released - initially for CP/M on the Amstrad CPC, and later ported to DOS.

LibreOffice 4.3 is released, with new drawingML-based DOCX import/export filter for shapes and text frames, improved PDF import, a better default icon set, printable comments in margins, and support for paragraphs of over 65,536 characters in Writer LibreOffice 4.4 is released, with direct connectivity to OneDrive and SharePoint, import of Adobe PageMaker files, digital signing of PDFs, and user interface improvements LibreOffice 5.0 is released, with style previews in the sidebar, emoji support in 22 languages, the ability to crop images in Writer, Microsoft Word-compatible text highlighting and shading, and a UI for controlling conditional formatting in Calc Accept YouTube Content LibreOffice 24.8 is released, with a "Quick find" deck in the sidebar, many bew spreadsheet functions, better Impress templates and much more:

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LibreOffice Timeline