Collabora Online Writer Overview

COOL Days 2025 (https://www.collaboraonline.com/events/cool-days-2025/), Budapest

Video record: https://www.youtube.com/live/YyC45N8On30?t=261

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1. Writer Overview Miklos Vajna Senior Software Engineer 2025-06-04
2. 2/39 Meet Miklos Vajna • From Hungary • More details: https://www.collaboraonline.com/about-us/ • Google Summer of Code 2010 / 2011 • Rewrite of the Writer RTF import/export • Then a full-time LibreOffice developer for SUSE • Finally a contractor at Collabora since 2013
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14. 14/39 Introducing Writer • Collaborative cursors, typing, selections, deleting, copy & paste
15. 15/39 Working with text • Collaborative undo & redo
16. 16/39 Advanced working with text • Autotext, comments, footnotes, endnotes, reference marks, navigator
17. 17/39 Formatting text: direct format • Use the notebookbar or the sidebar, depending on your taste
18. 18/39 Formatting text: direct format • Use the notebookbar or the sidebar, depending on your taste
19. 19/39 Formatting text: direct format • Use the notebookbar or the sidebar, depending on your taste
20. 20/39 Formatting text: direct format • Use the notebookbar or the sidebar, depending on your taste
21. 21/39 Metric compatible font replacements • Most frequent commercial fonts have a built-in equivalent
22. 22/39 Formatting of pages • Page size, orientation, headers, footers, columns
23. 23/39 Electronic signing • A Qualified Electronic Signature according to EU regulations
24. 24/39 Electronic signing • A Qualified Electronic Signature according to EU regulations
25. 25/39 Electronic signing • A Qualified Electronic Signature according to EU regulations
26. 26/39 Electronic signing
27. 27/39 Electronic signing
28. 28/39 Styles • Apply, create, modify: with the Styles sidebar
29. 29/39 Advanced styles • Paragraph (for outline numbering), character & page styles
30. 30/39 Template support • Integration can provide a set of org-specific templates
31. 31/39 Image handling • Inline or anchored, the 6 parameters of positioning, scaling, crop
32. 32/39 Lists • Numbering and bullets: tab/shift-tab + alt-shift-up/down to modify
33. 33/39 Tables • Formatting using the dialog & notebookbar, unfloating them
34. 34/39 Document extract & transform • API to extract data from documents & to transform them • Also for charts, fits AI use-cases
35. 35/39 Table of contents • Table of contents, indexes, bibliographies with Zotero integration
36. 36/39 Change tracking • Collaborative change tracking for you or for all
37. 37/39 Content controls, PDF forms • Form controls, form fields, content controls, export to PDF (opt-in)
38. 38/39 There is so much more! This is a very quick introduction
39. 39/39 Summary • Writer gives you all the tools to author good-looking, modern documents • High-fidelity rendering based on LibreOffice Technology • Collaborative editing, including some undo/redo support • Autotext, change tracking • Formatting, be it direct formatting or styles • Templates & electronic signing • Forms, document extraction & transform