How do I find documentation to learn Libre Office which correspond with the version I got (now 7.6)?
(I get confused with a different work version and an learn version!)
The official documentation is available here in English, from where you can access other languages if the manuals have been translated.
Your concern seems to be Writer according to the tag. The Writer Guides will give you explanation about the various menu commands and keyboard shortcuts, and they don’t differ much from version to version.
The most important thing is that efficient use of Writer is based on styles. This aspect is not well developed or emphasised enough in the Writer Guide despite the presence of chapters dedicated to styles.
An excellent (and recommended) book is Bruce Byfield’s Designing with LibreOffice, also available from the page linked above. The last edition is dated 2022. The book does not focus on a specific LO version but advocates a successful approach to LO based on styles and global design. This approach is “intemporal”, meaning it is valid over all versions and perhaps for other office suites if they provide the same founding principles (which is not the case of M$ Word because it lacks many “elementary bricks”).
The 3rd number marks bug fix releases. In an ideal world, version 7.6.0 would be perfect, so there would be no need for 7.6.1, 7.6.2 etc.
From a user’s perspective, bug fix versions should be exactly the same except for the fixed bugs you may have encountered. Most bugs remain unnoticed by most users.
There are small differences between 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 etc. The differences between these versions are described in release notes. LibreOffice 7.6 Community: Release Notes - The Document Foundation Wiki describes all things that changed between 7.5 and 7.6.
The first number (major version) has no meaning. The difference between 6.4 and 7.0 was not much bigger than between 6.3 and 6.4 or 7.0 and 7.1. They used to modernize the optical appearance between major versions, but under the hood it is more like a continuous process with small changes compared to the dimension of the whole software.
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I’ll try to explain what I mean!
The interface of LO in the learning document is not the same as my working version e.g. the side bar is different.
P.s. it’s now 21.00 here (The Netherlands). I’ll stop! See you tomorrow!
Cheers
Although my english isn’t perfect, I like this group much!
Therefore I would like to stay here (and not in the Dutch group).
I understand your comment completely!
My problem is that I’m still learning LO and that I can’t find an interface of the working space which agrees to the learning space?
Your problem may stem from the fact that the LibreOffice interface may be customized in many different ways. This is why the guides mention that illustrations may not match what you see on your screen.
While this may make it more difficult when learning, the ability to customize the interface can greatly increase your working efficiency.
As I began trying to learn to use LibreOffice, I experienced some of the same frustrations you currently face. If I ran into problems when trying to read through the guides, I would search for answers elsewhere in the guides, search the Help topics, watch instructional videos on the internet (both YouTube and elsewhere), and check various forums. If I could not find the answers I sought, I would ask my own questions here.
Well phrased questions lead to better answers. Try to explain what you are trying to do, your step by step efforts to accomplish your goal, and the result of your effort. It also helps to address one specific issue at a time rather than phrasing questions in a general manner.
It is always good to remember that there is always more to learn.
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It’s nice to read someone who had the same problems. However, I’m looking for downloading an older version of LO so that the working space and the learning space are similar.
Why don’t you simply tell us what your problem is with the new version? You do not even tell us what your previous version was.
If it was that simple? No, I like to do what I’ve learned (by myself!)
(my previous version was 7.5. -now 7.6. In the documentation ?)
There is no apparent change in the user interface between versions 7.5 and 7.6 as you can see in the release notes I’ve linked.
The 2 versions on the download page are 7.5 and 7.6.
Yes, the download versions are 7.5 and 7.6.
The version I use to study is none of them.
and why can’t you scroll down the download page down to “Availlable versions … Older versions …”?
As you can see the documentation interface and the workspace interface are different! I would like to have the same. But how? As above?
menu:View>User Interface… Choose the first one.
Drag the stylist window to the right side of the window.
According to your pictures, you have already begun to customise your copy of LO. You should try to restore the default toolbars. Regarding the style side pane, dock it to the right. If you can’t, click on the floating style winfow and Ctrl+Shift+F10.
(If you’re on a Mac, this might not work as I kind of remember F10 is intercepted by MacOS before being handed over to the application.)
Sorry, I don’t understand it!
But look e.g. to the sign of the printer?
In the old versions it’s clear. In the latest version it isn’t.
You see a problem, not a “different interface”. You see an icon set for dark mode on a light mode background. I don’t even try to guess which version of program you run now, but indeed, all your questions were wrong - instead of asking where to find “similar versions”, you needed to show your screenshots, your version information, and ask how to make it similar to the docs (which, by the way, accidentally use the same interface).
Ok, many thanks!
I’ll do that next time!