LibreOfficeit is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools allow you to unleash your creativity and grow your productivity. LibreOffice incorporates several applications that make it the most powerful free and open source office suite on the market: Writer, the word processor, Calc, the spreadsheet, Impress, the presentation editor, Draw, our drawing application and flowcharts, Base, our database and interface with other databases, and Math for editing mathematical formulas.
LIBREOFFICE CURRENTLY IN DEEPIN 20
When starting LibreOffice for the first time in Deepin 20 we noticed that the interface is shown as an old application, without the tabbed interface and the truth is a bit boring and not very interesting. This is unfortunately the same case in most distributions, but today you will learn how to change that.
LET'S START IMPROVING THE LIBREOFFICE INTERFACE
Durante esta guía vamos a seguir algunos pasos para mejorar algunos aspectos visuales de LibreOffice hasta que tengamos un diseño mucho más llamativo y además más útil. Para comenzar abrimos la Deepin terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and paste the following command:
sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk3
By doing the above we have installed GTK3 element support to the application and you will notice that its look starts to get better. The interface begins to have some visual aspects that initially it did not have.
INSTALLING THE BREEZE, ELEMENTARY AND COLIBRE ICONS
Above we began to improve additional elements of LibreOffice, now we are going to improve its appearance even more by installing some styles of icons for LibreOffice, these are "Breeze", "Elementary" and "Colibre" which will enhance the beauty of the application in general. We open the Deepin Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and paste the following command:
sudo apt install libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-elementary libreoffice-style-colibre
Set icon theme: let's Tools> Options> View> Icon Style. Once here we choose Breeze or Breeze Dark, depending on the color of the subject to taste, be it light or dark.
The icons will look smooth and consistent, even in night mode. In addition to looking modern to the eyes. It is not the only icon pack, for example, we have Colibre for colorful details.
INSTALLING MICROSOFT FONTS
We are going to continue improving the appearance of the application in this step by installing Microsoft fonts, as explained in our Wiki article. To achieve this we will do something very simple. We simply open the Deepin Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and paste the following command:
sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
ENABLING THE TABS INTERFACE
The tab mode is one of the most requested and desired features by many users of this office suite, in this step we will show you how to achieve it. First you have to go to «Tools -> Options—> Advanced, activate the option Activate Experimental Features»Click on the« OK »button, we restart LibreOffice, after that the tab view option appears.
Then to achieve what we want, that is to say that LibreOffice shows its Tabs Mode we are going to access through the upper menu to «View -> User Interface and we choose« In tab ».
At this point and after having followed all the steps described up to here, you will have a modern and useful interface in your LibreOffice. On par with all other modern office suites. You now have LibreOffice with a beautiful and useful interface, but we haven't finished our work yet.
TRANSLATE LIBREOFFICE TO SPANISH
Most likely, you want to be able to use LibreOffice in Spanish. Achieving that is easy and you will achieve it in the following way. We open the Deepin Terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and paste the following command:
sudo apt install libreoffice-help-es
INSTALL MYSPELL PACKAGE
Now it would be necessary to install the package MySpell corresponding to the Spanish dictionary so that the spelling and grammar checker works (Thanks to @juanmaguelfo per suggestion) using the following command:
sudo apt install myspell-es
Restart the application and you will immediately notice that the interface is now displayed in the Spanish language and that its entire appearance has changed to one much more pleasant to your eyes.
And that's all in the definitive guide to improve the appearance of LibreOffice in Deepin 20 and higher. You have greatly improved its appearance and given it a look much more modern, in addition to making it more useful for you as a user of the Spanish language. If you have questions, doubts or suggestions regarding this article, do not hesitate to tell us what you think in a comment.
What a good guide, I haven't done the steps yet but it's appreciated. I went to WPS because of the bad visual aspect of Libre Office and its interface in English. Now you to reinstall it. Thank you!!
excellent publication
Alejandro Camarena, Thank you very much for the contribution.
Thank you very much Eli, we are at your service. Regards!
Uff this guide comes out of my hair, free is my favorite suite, it looks very good like this!
Wow, LibreOffice does look good like that, it's totally different from how it comes by default. It is worth the change, it looks more organized and comfortable to use
Now yes, you already have a good competition with WPS. Since LibreOffice 7 already supports Office documents, in addition to its integration with its free format. Keep moving forward. Greetings Alejandro.
Immensely grateful, Alejandro.
I worked 100%, excellent contribution, congratulations.
Excellent contribution, it has been much better to start, perform the steps without incident.
ufff me enamore de libreoffice!!! gracias por este gran articulo-tutorial
Ay ay ay people… everything you publish is pure art and quality content, congratulations to the team and to Alejandro for the excellent tutoring.
We are delighted to have you here in this great community. Regards!
Excellent Guide, thank you very much Alejandro, the appearance looks very cool. Very good contribution.
very good… it would be necessary to install the Myspell package corresponding to the Spanish dictionary for the spelling and grammar checker to work…
thanks and greetings
I like the suggestion, we are going to add it to the tutorial, thanks.
Hello, good morning, I am new to using Linux, I have tried to put my libreoffice in Spanish following all the indications that are shown here and in other forums and I cannot change the language to Spanish. I am using Deepin 20 as a native system, you could recommend me Any other alternative to change the language or could I have a suggestion, I have thought about reinstalling the operating system.
thank you and have a good afternoon
What a good tuto, thank you very much.
I think it's time to experiment, I like the way it looks, I've been using wps, but this looks good.
Excellent guide, thank you all
Thank you very much. LibreOffice has improved a lot and now has a modern look.
Excellent guide, thank you very much guys.
Excellent, it works very well.
Excellent!! But for my part LibreOffice 7 marks a before and after in the interface issue.
I am new to using deepin, very good information to personalize the free office. thank you very much . very much appreciated. everything works correctly.
Excellent guide, I love the results. Thank you very much for the contribution
Excellent !!!! from 10
Excellent, it looks much better this way.
Excellent! Thank you.
Thanks from Bogota
Thank you gentlemen, excellent guide, working in:
OS: Deepin 20.1 x86_64
Kernel: 5.4.70-amd64-desktop
A query exists some extension or something like that in Libre Office or Free Office to group the tabs as well as WPS Office. Thanks for the answer, I am looking for