LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever

Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by italophil on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:31AM (#8966637)

I like the ribbon, but it takes up too much vertical space on a 16:9 display, especially in Word. LO Sidebar uses the space better, and I can see more of the document at once.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by scholia on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:41AM (#8966708)

Sure, but that's why you keep it closed almost all the time. For practical purposes, the ribbon takes up less space than the header on Notepad.

I've added my most used Word functions to the quick access bar, and some features are provided by the ghost menus that appear by the cursor, and I know a load of keyboard shortcuts. All of which means I very rarely open the ribbon. But when I do need it, it's orders of magnitude better than the rat's nest of menus and task panes we had before.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by tpeaton on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:36AM (#8966674)

You can double click the heading on top of the ribbon to collapse the whole thing.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by scholia on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:44AM (#8966730)

Indeed, I think it's been collapsed by default for some time...

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by vetinari on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:20AM (#8967000)

You can collapse it. Then it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/owymIV4.png

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