Luke's LibreOffice Hacks

We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As of this post, Inline Styles are still very new and, as TDF points out in their features section, still a work in progress. Overall, IMO this is one of the best and most important features of Writer, especially for advanced or power users in the Business sector, but also for a wide range of other documents (books, articles, instruction manuals, etc.) System Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS App LibreOffice 25.2.0.3 The Issue As Inline Styles are so new, I hate to use the word "issue," but none other comes to mind. The issue here is that, when creating an Inline Style the Frame that is created is too large, i.e., there is unwanted space to the right of the last character in the frame. The end result is that the sentence looks clunky and unprofessional. Clients who receiv...

Microsoft Word has a built-in Style Separator function that allows the user to mix two different styles in the same paragraph; LibreOffice, as of the date of this post, does not have the same capability. Below is a comment I appended to the bug number referenced in the subject line of this post. I'm sure I will be kicked out of the forum…again.  If you don't care to read a snarky vs. snarky post, here is the summary: First, LibreOffice Writer does not have a Style Separator function and the Document Foundation does not (at this time) intend to develop one. Second, the alternatives suggested by the devs and by users in the forum are clever but worthless to the serious user. "This is an ongoing issue that has been reported in at least two separate bug reports and the developers have responded, once with "there are ways to accomplish this without developing an actual style separator" (my description) and, in this bug report, "Looks like this is a bit of an obsc...