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Word-processor component of the LibreOffice office suite

LibreOffice Writer is the component of the suite (free software) that is compatible with other major office suites. LibreOffice Writer lets you design and produce text documents that can include graphics, tables, or charts.

Documents can be saved in different formats, including the standardized format (ODF), Microsoft Word .doc format, , and .

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Make LibreOffice Writer insert pictures "as character" by default?

When I paste an image into LibreOffice Writer, it is anchored "To paragraph" by default (as shown in the image right click menu -> Picture... -> Type -> Anchor). Of course I can change this on a per-image basis, but I almost always want to use…
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Insert > Horizontal rule is missing in LibreOffice 4.0

I'm probably one of the few who uses this, but I use it a lot. After my upgrade to LibreOffice 4.0, the Horizontal rule menu item is missing from the Writer Insert menu. Where did it go? How can I get it back?
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How do I set a background image in LibreOffice Writer 5?

I want to set an image as a background for the page in LibreOffice Writer 5. I found plenty of articles on the web, including in the LibreOffice documentation, however, they are not helpful, because apparently that whole area of the application was…
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Automatically removing linebreaks in LibreOffice Writer

Often I find that I copy text from a gedit (linux) text editor document into a word processor like LibreOffice Writer. Of course I have hard linebreaks coded into the text. How can I do a search and replace to reflow the text in LibreOffice Writer?…
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Why do images copied to Libre Office Writer look so pixelated?

When you copy this image and paste it (via drag and drop from Google Chrome) to Libre Office Writer (4.3.3.2) you get: Why is this so pixelated / fuzzy? Somehow it does not copy the original image. How can I tell it to copy it in the original…
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How do I set the paper color in LibreOffice Writer?

In LibreOffice Writer, if I choose Format -> Page... -> Background -> Background color I can set a background color, but it is only used within the margins. How do I set the paper color? One way is to set the margins to zero, but that is not optimal…
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How do you search and replace page breaks in Libre Office?

How do you search and replace page breaks in Libre Office Writer? For example, I may want to remove all manually inserted page breaks (^m in MS Word). I can search for line breaks and paragraph breaks using regular expressions, but I don't see a…
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How do I find all highlighted text in Libreoffice Writer?

I have a LibreOffice Writer document that has undergone a process of editing, and sections of the text that needed to be rewritten were highlighted in yellow. As I fixed those sections, I removed the yellow highlight. Now, I want to make sure there…
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How to easily change the bullet colors in LibreOffice

I want to assign a color to bullets without changing the text color. For the moment, to do it : I change the text color which changes the bullet color Then I re-change the text color except the first character, so the bullet remains colored Finally…
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remove hyperlinks in libre office

How can I remove hyperlinks in LibreOffice documents? The remove-hyperlink entry in the context-menu isn't working. It's LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 shipped with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin. Thank you in advance.
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Table background not being saved when I save table style in Libre Office Writer

I'm trying to save a table style as a named style in LibreOffice writer. My process so far has been as follows: Select the table whose style I want to save, then use the following Format Menu -> Styles and Formatting -> Styles and…
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How can I insert auto-numbered sentences in LibreOffice Writer?

I want to achieve a formatting like this: Some text which references (1), for example because (1) might be an example sentence for some grammatical structure which is explained here. This is auto-numbered text object…
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How to change the font of all equations in LibreOffice Writer

Is there a way to quickly change the font of all equations in a document? Maybe there's a built-in style for them or something... I don't want to set a default style for new ones, but to change existing one's.
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Libre Office Writer - Is Creating a "Text from file" object (MS Word concept) possible with it?

In MS word I can create a file with a certain text, and than import it to 10 other files in a smart way (if I change the original text, it changes in all the 10 files as well). This is done in Word 2016 from Object > Text from file. Can this be done…
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Setting a section in Libre Office to the top of a (new) page

When one inserts a new section in LibreOffice it starts mid-page. This is the expected behaviour. However I do not know of a way to start a new page with a section. If one forces a page break the section starts one line down as the section is now…
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