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Month: February 2024

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Writer tables converted to plain text – difficultyInteresting EasyHack

29 February 20241 September 2025

If you copy contents from LibreOffice Writer to a plain text editor like gedit or Notepad, you will see that it does a straightforward thing: It copies the text and some basic formatting like converting bullets to ‘•’. For the Writer tables, the conversion is very simple right now: every cell is written in a separate line. (more…)

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Make Impress master slides copyable – difficulty interesting EasyHack

22 February 20241 September 2025

When working with LibreOffice Impress, “Slide Master” is the place where you can change the templates used for different types of the slides used in your presentation. Here we discuss a possible improvement for the “Slide Master” by making the copy from master slides possible. (more…)

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gbuild for Java tests – LibreOffice build system part 3

4 February 20241 September 2025

In this blog post, I discuss gbuild for Java tests. The goal is to write a Makefile to compile and run a JUnit test for LibreOffice. You can also refer to part 1 and part 2 for a brif overiew on gbuild, the LibreOffice build system. (more…)

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