One of the (maybe few) niceties of MS Office these days is that you can search through a list of most available commands through a simple Alt+Q and typing. This greatly improved my productivity for some common tasks, and it's the sort of discoverability that'd be helpful to make LibreOffice easier to use.
For my part, though, I'm typically authoring print documents in LyX, since I don't have to exchange documents routinely. If I do have to share Word-compatible documents, I'll sometimes use LO Writer or else convert from a text format to .docx using pandoc.
LibreOffice has the same feature. Type Shift+Esc or go to Help > Search Commands to activate the head-up display. You can then search for the command you want.
GIF demo: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/libreoffice-7-2-release-...
Documentation: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/option...
TIL! Thanks a bunch, I'll definitely check this out.
Re:Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6
by extraduder_ire on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:03AM
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I really miss the HUD feature the Unity DE had for searching through application menus, which I used for a similar purpose.
Closest I've seen is how it works on macOS.
I know this doesn't comfort anybody, but I have the exact same multilanguage problem in MS Office. You never know what you will get, even reopening the same document.
Re:Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6
by OfSanguineFire on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:15AM
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It also happens with documents going back and forth between different computers, and I blame MS Office. I edit manuscripts in LibreOffice on my end, and tag every foreign-language word as its respective language for the sake of spellcheck and proper hyphenation. Then I send the .docx to the other party. When they send a fresh version back to me, I see that all those foreign-language words were simply restored to some default language.
Have you read the manual? I haven't used MS Word for many years (luckily) but the last time I did I actually did figure out how languages work once and for all. It made sense and it's quite powerful. I also figured out how styles work and that you should never press the bold/italic etc buttons, only use styles.
Re:Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6
by 2Gkashmiri on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:26AM
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There is a person doing gsoc on that exact thing. Maybe it will land in the next update
What's a gsoc?
Google Summer of Code
LMGTFY: Google Summer of Code
I really wish they'd fix their Options screen. It's 2023 and I still can't search for the options I want to change. Instead, they're arranged in an inscrutable order, and often have confusing names. Every time I use Libre Office on a new computer, I have go menu diving to turn off the god awful autocomplete. And as someone who writes in multiple languages, changing languages in a document is a huge pain (the language "For All Text"-option never seems to work).