LibreOffice Editor EN

The LibreOffice Editor Edge extension is a versatile tool that enables you to create, edit, and view Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint slides directly within your browser. It offers integration with LibreOffice Online and provides a user-friendly file manager for seamless document handling while online. This extension primarily focuses on managing DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, and PPTX file types.

Key Features:

Document Creation: Allows you to create DOC, XLS, or PPT documents from scratch using the LibreOffice Editor, providing direct access to these functionalities.

Automatic Detection: Automatically detects when you access documents in formats like DOC, XLS, PPT, TXT, RTF, CSV, or ODF and opens them directly in the LibreOffice Editor.

Architecture Overview:

This extension comprises three core modules:

A) LibreOffice Editor Online:

Enables you to create, edit, and view XLS spreadsheets created in OpenOffice Calc, LibreOffice Calc, or Microsoft Excel.
Provides similar functionality for DOC documents, supporting OpenOffice Doc, LibreOffice Doc, or Microsoft Word formats.
Supports the creation, editing, and viewing of PPT slides using OpenOffice Impress, LibreOffice Impress, or Microsoft PowerPoint.
Offers various formatting options, including styles management, font sizes, font colors, background colors, text search, and more.
Allows the insertion of columns, rows, tables, images, and the deletion of rows or columns.
Advanced search and replace features, support for regular expressions, and handling special characters.
Incorporates spreadsheet functions, provides slides preview, and enables exporting to PDF.
Includes auto-save functionality for files.
Open-source code.
B) LibreOffice Desktop API:

Supports a wide range of document formats, including LibreOffice ODF text document (.odt), OpenOffice ODF text document (.odt), Microsoft Word formats like .doc, .docx, and many more.
Also handles spreadsheet formats like .ods, .xls, .xlsx, and presentation formats like .odp, .ppt, .pptx, along with rich text and CSV formats.
C) File Manager Module:

Manages personal files and directories in the Cloud.
Supports file and folder operations such as copying, moving, uploading, creating folders/files, and searching for files.
This LibreOffice Editor extension is powered by the OffiDocs platform. While it's available for free for online users, it also offers integration options for premium users and on-premises OffiDocs deployments that have the OffiDocs LibreOffice online global bundle installed.