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If you are coming from Microsoft Office, the default LibreOffice interface—with its stacks of small toolbars—can feel like a time machine back to 2003. It’s functional, but it’s not what modern users are used to. The good news? LibreOffice has a hidden “Ribbon” mode (officially called the NotebookBar) that mimics the familiar tabbed layout of […]

The Problem: You have Windows 11 set to Dark Mode. You open LibreOffice, and it’s a blinding mix of dark menus and a bright white page, or worse—dark grey text on a black background that is impossible to read. LibreOffice’s dark mode integration on Windows is notoriously finicky. Here is how to force it to

For many businesses and power users, the biggest barrier to leaving Microsoft Excel isn’t the software itself—it’s the years of custom automation built with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). The thought of rewriting thousands of lines of code is enough to stop any migration in its tracks. But what if you didn’t have to rewrite

You have a list of thousands of customer emails, and you know there are duplicates. In Excel, you would just click the big blue “Remove Duplicates” button on the Data tab and be done in seconds. You open LibreOffice Calc, go to the Data tab, and… panic. The button is gone. This is one of

You just switched to LibreOffice Calc. You feel good about saving money on subscriptions. You open a spreadsheet, type =XLOOKUP, and… nothing. Just a #NAME? error. For millions of “Excel Refugees,” XLOOKUP is the hardest habit to break. It is the Swiss Army knife of formulas, and losing it feels like going back to the