LibreOffice 6.4 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

9to5linux ^ | 29 January 2020 | Marius Nestor

[Still Thinking]

I thought so too. Back in late 90s/Y2K I used Opera for combined browsing and email. I’ve recently switched back to it as my primary browswer after 10 years or so on Firefox, but using T-Bird for email.

One annoying thing I learned about T-Bird the other day. I have T-Bird set up to delete emails from my ISP POP server after two weeks or immediately if I delete them on my PC. Then I have about the last two weeks emails available to review from my phone/tablet/etc. I set up a filter the other day to filter a certain sender straight to trash, but for some reason, that doesn’t count as a deletion that T-Bird tells the server about, so that the server deletes them. If I delete manually, T-Bird tells the server, and then they disappear next time my phone checks for emails. Anybody know of a workaround for this?

[ducttape45]

That's a weird one.

I have my Outlook setup to immediately remove the emails from the server when I download them, but I also have my email accounts setup on via the POP server, not IMAP. I prefer it that way and my ISP never has a cache of my email traffic on it.

[Still Thinking]

Well, I have POP too, for mostly the same reason. I feel better maintaining my own emails, but by having a short-term cache (except for deleted items), then I can refer back to an email on my phone when I’m not at the computer.

Annoyed that auto-moving an email to Trash on receipt doesn’t count as a deletion for synching purposes though.

[ducttape45]

This is one of the reasons why I’m staying with Outlook as my primary email client. Even though I have Thunderbird on my Linux box, I still ultimately maintain all of my emails in Outlook. I configure Thunderbird to keep emails on the server and when I open Outlook it downloads them and deletes them off the server.

[kevao]

LibreOffice is free. So install it, open your MS docs with, and then let us know how it works!

[daniel1212]

I use Apache Open Office as well as the forked Libre Open office because I do not always like the changes LOo makes, such as removing the page borders (so i created a template with them). But it is more advanced than AOo.

However, one feature that no current word pro that I know of has is that of AutoPaste, meaning an option that will auto paste into a document whatever you choose to copy. Maybe there is a way to do that in Linux (not merely copying, or copying to the clipboard, but to a word pro that auto saves) A word pro named Text Shield, that I still use sometimes when selectively copying texts from a long document, enables that in Windows.

unified hyperlink context menus as Copy Hyperlink Location, Edit Hyperlink, Open Hyperlink, and Remove Hyperlink.

I wonder how they would change this:

"