Chapter 2.2.1 LibreOffice
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LibreOffice is the default open source full office suite for Lubuntu. In the menu there are shortcuts to different LibreOffice applications and your recently used files.

Usage
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To open a recently used file in LibreOffice they are shown in the main part of the window by pressing the :guilabel:`Recent Documents` button or :menuselection:`File --> Recent Documents`. To clear your recent documents left click the arrow next to :guilabel:`Recent Documents` and select :menuselection:`Clear Recent Documents` or :menuselection:`File --> Recent Documents --> Clear List`. If you do not want a particular recent document shown in the center press the :guilabel:`x` button in the top right corner of that file. To open a program or to create a file from a file dialog are along the left hand column under the :guilabel:`Create` header. To open a particular file press the :guilabel:`Open File` button, press :kbd:`Control+ O`, or :menuselection:`File --> Open`. To start a new document from a template press the :guilabel:`Templates` button and left click on the template you want. To choose a subcategory of templates click the downward pointing arrow next to :guilabel:`Templates`.

To close LibreOffice press :kbd:`Control+ Q`.

LibreOffice all of the different components have a window menu that lets you switch between a document in LibreOffice Writer and LibreOffice Calc. To do this go to :menuselection:`Window` and select the window that you want to switch to.

LibreOffice if you shutdown without saving your work LibreOffice will automatically recover the document. If you do not want to recover a document press the :guilabel:`Discard` button. If you want to automatically recover the document press the :guilabel:`Start` button. To finish recovery press the :guilabel:`Finish` button. If document recovery keeps on failing and won't launch run on the command line

.. code:: 

   libreoffice --norestore

from the command line to stop crashes at document recovery.

.. image:: loffice-restore.png

If you are about to close a document without saving it in LibreOffice a dialog will popup asking :guilabel:`Save changes to document before closing?`. If you do not want to save what you were working on press the :guilabel:`Don't Save` button. To not quit LibreOffice press the :guilabel:`Cancel` button. To Save the document to not lose your work press the :guilabel:`Save` button.

On non-English Lubuntu 22.04 installations there is a bug with LibreOffice not being localized see `here <https://discourse.lubuntu.me/t/using-a-language-other-than-english-heres-how-to-get-libreoffice-in-your-language/3269/>`_ for a workaround.

Screenshot
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.. image:: libreoffice.png

Version
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Lubuntu ships with version 24.2.4.1 of LibreOffice.

How to Launch
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From the menu :menuselection:`Office --> LibreOffice Start Center` to launch LibreOffice or run 

.. code::

   libreoffice 
   
from the command line. The icon for LibreOffice is a white piece of paper with a folded right hand corner.