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Useful Extensions/Add-ons for LibreOffice? (For College) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey you all, i started using LibreOffice since i switched to Linux, but i didn't used it often yet so I'm still getting the hang of it. Since I'm gonna start College next week, I'm interested in what extensions you can recommend. Some weeks ago i read that it's recommend to install some fonts, so when you exchange documents with other students that are using Microsoft Office, there will be less of formatting issues.

So can you recommend me some useful Extensions, e.g. fonts for the situation above, that can help me in everyday life (as a student)?

I'm looking forward to your suggestions :)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I don't know too much on fonts, I would highly, highly recommend looking into the reference manager Zotero and its LibreOffice and browser extensions for reference management. It's helped me significantly organizing research for papers and cutting down the time I spend doing menial tasks like reference checking, I can just click a button to add a source to my library and then another with the LibreOffice extension to plop it in as a reference. It has options for every major referencing style and you can create your own as well, though I haven't cared enough to try lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use JabRef which is another open sourced bibliography tool. I use it regularly and truly have no clue what I'd do without it at this point!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for these two recommendations. I will look into these and see which suits me better :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

JabRef is much more feature-rich than Zotero, IMO. It's what I use, and I love it, but I had issues getting it to communicate with LibreOffice--it's really designed to work with LaTeX. I ended up having to export to a file each time I updated the bibliography and import that into LibreOffice.

There are also a bunch of reference managers out there--with the exception of Mendeley (curse you, Elsevier, for being the scum of the earth) they can all export and import biblios from each other, so you can try them out without losing your work.