The 9 best free extensions for LibreOffice

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LibreOffice is the best free office suite available for various operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS. In a previous article We had talked about some of the extensions that should not be missing in your LibreOffice installation.

Clearly LibreOffice is already packed with a ton of features And the best of all can be extended by using specific plugins, called extensions.

Extensions are tools that can be added or remove regardless of the main installation, and they can add new functionality or make existing functionality easier to use.

In this article we are going to talk about the best free extensions that you can find on the main LibreOffice extensions website that will improve your experience using LibreOffice.

Show Notes

ShowNotes is a plugin that was released over six years ago, but it still works. Is a simple extension for Calc that allows to show and / or hide all notes for all cells. This is much easier than having to check all cells with notes one by one.

AltSearch

This extension adds many new features to the search and replace text function, the searched or replaced text can contain one or more paragraphs.

I also know add multiple search and replace in one step, search, bookmarks, notes, text fields, cross references and reference marks for your content, name or brand and their insertion.

As well it is possible to save and load search and replace parameters, and run the batch on multiple open documents at the same time.

EPC

EPC

This little extension for LibreOffice provides the necessary elements to draw event-driven process chains. It works best in Draw if you have enabled the grid and connectors.

Code Colorizer Formatter

LibreOffice is not designed to be a coding tool, but with this extension we can use it to write, edit, view code and more.

Code Colorizer Formatter highlights keywords, literals, comments, and operators in BASH, Basic, C ++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, R, SQL, XML, C #, Lisp, Object C, JavaScript, Ruby, 8085 assembler, and x86 assembler, so it is much easier to read the code and make edits.

Add Pics

With this extension if they have the images or scanned pages, we can create documents from them. For all documents created, they get the correct page orientation, be it portrait or landscape.

TexMaths

This is a very useful extension for engineers and all those who have to work on equations.

TexMaths is the LaTeX equation editor for LibreOffice, this allows us to add LaTeX equations in the form of images (SVG or PNG format).

The LaTeX code is saved in the image for later editing at any time.

Calculator for Calc

For anyone who has to frequently enter dates in Calc, Calendar for Calc is an excellent extension.

Well, instead of having to check a calendar separately and enter the dates manually, with this add-on you can select the range (s) and double-click on a day to insert the date in ISO format.

iMath

This great extension It will allow us to help you perform numeric and symbolic calculations within a Writer documentWith this, if you are writing a document, you will avoid using the calculator or having to use spreadsheets.

Pepito Cleaner

This is a LibreOffice extension created to quickly resolve the most common formatting errors from old scans, PDF imports and every digital text file.

By clicking on the Pepito Cleaner icon on the LibreOffice toolbar, users will open a window that will analyze the document and display the results broken down by category.

This is extremely useful when converting PDF documents to ODF as it cleans up all the remaining material in place by the automatic process.

Without more, these are some of the best free extensions that you can find for LibreOffice, if you want to suggest some more, do not hesitate to share it in the comments.


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  1.   Shalem Dior Juz said

    Good tips, thank you very much.