LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements

LibreOffice 26.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature update to this leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. There are many nice refinements and new features to be found with LibreOffice 26.8. Some of the LibreOffice 26.8 highlights are listed below. - Faster opening of very large Writer documents with images. - Infrastructure to support comparing documents side-by-side in LibreOffice Writer. - Writer can now more quickly open large documents with images. - Calc adds a shuffle command to randomize the order of cells in a range. - LibreOffice Draw now supports swapping mouse wheel zoom and scroll. - LibreOffice Chart has experimental support for import and re-export of new Chartex chart types that can be created in Microsoft Office and saved to OOXML files. - Microsoft XLSX compatibility improvements. - LibreOffice 26.8 now has the Notebookbars' background color be colored individually per LibreOffice module. LibreOffice 26.8 also had plans for a donation banner in the LibreOffice Start Center. But in the release build, the donation area in the start center amounts to just one button. More details via the release notes. Download LibreOffice 26.8 at LibreOffice.org.