LibreOffice Writer prints text frames as black areas

Upgade to LibreOffice 3.5.3+ or disable hardware accelleration in Tools → Options → LibreOffice → View → Graphic output.

This is painful. Consider using Microsoft Office or switching careers. If you need to write < 20 letters consider doing it manually.

So you didn't listen and here it comes:

1. Ignore the Mail Merge Wizard. It will crash or destroy your documen...

This decision tree describes how to use the alt attribute of the <img> element in various situations. For some types of images, there are alternative approaches, such as using CSS backg...

Colorizes code in LibreOffice Writer.

Note that you need to create a paragraph style _code for this to work.

If you're a frequent user of LibreOffice, I strongly recommend to checkout out the VLOOKUP function (SVERWEIS in German). It allows you to treat a column pair as a hash map, where ...

• Right-click on the table
• Select Table...
• Select Text flow
• Uncheck Allow row to break across pages and columns

This is surprisingly difficult when there is a <textarea> with the same text on the page, but you really want to see the letters as static text in a <p> or similiar.

The step definition below lets you say:

Then I should see the text "foo...

Mark window as "demands attention"

Install wmctrl through your package manager, i.e.

sudo apt-get install wmctrl

Download the attached script and mark it as executable.

Then go to `Edit -> User...

Getting rid of your old LibreOffice

Remove your old LibreOffice:

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*

You probably also want to get rid of the dead PPAs you might have installed for LibreOffice 4.x:

• Op...