Contents

Copyright.....................................................................................................................................2
Contributors............................................................................................................................ 2
Feedback................................................................................................................................2
Publication date and software version...................................................................................2
Preface.............................................................................................................................. 7
Who is this guide for?................................................................................................................. 8
What is LibreOffice?....................................................................................................................8
Minimum requirements for using LibreOffice..............................................................................8
How to get LibreOffice................................................................................................................8
Computers and laptops.......................................................................................................... 8
Tablets, iPads and Chromebooks...........................................................................................9
Installing LibreOffice...................................................................................................................9
Setting up and customizing LibreOffice...................................................................................... 9
Extensions and add-ons.............................................................................................................9
Where to get more help..............................................................................................................9
Help system............................................................................................................................9
Other free online support...................................................................................................... 11
Paid support and training......................................................................................................11
What you see may be different................................................................................................. 12
Illustrations........................................................................................................................... 12
Icons..................................................................................................................................... 12
Using LibreOffice on macOS....................................................................................................13
Who wrote this user guide?......................................................................................................14
Frequently asked questions......................................................................................................14
What is new in LibreOffice 24.8?.............................................................................................. 15
Chapter 1, Creating and Editing Formulas..................................................................17
Introduction............................................................................................................................... 18
Formulas in documents or files.................................................................................................19
Formulas as separate documents or files............................................................................19
Formulas in LibreOffice documents......................................................................................19
Creating formulas......................................................................................................................21
Elements panel.....................................................................................................................21
Context menu....................................................................................................................... 23
Markup language..................................................................................................................24
Greek characters.................................................................................................................. 24
Formula examples.................................................................................................................... 26
Editing formulas........................................................................................................................ 27
Formula layout.......................................................................................................................... 27
Using braces........................................................................................................................ 27
Brackets (parentheses) and matrices..................................................................................28
Unpaired brackets................................................................................................................ 29
Recognizing functions.......................................................................................................... 30
Multiple line formulas............................................................................................................30
Formula element spacing..................................................................................................... 31
Adding limits to summations and integrals...........................................................................31
Adding derivatives................................................................................................................ 31
Markup language characters as normal characters.............................................................32
Text in formulas.................................................................................................................... 32
Formatting text in formulas...................................................................................................33
Aligning formulas using equals sign..................................................................................... 33
Changing formula appearance..................................................................................................34
Formula font size.................................................................................................................. 34

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