

It lets you quickly navigate between pages or headings by clicking the relevant link, while a dropdown tool similar to Writer’s (opened by clicking the down arrow to the right of the Find box) reveals further document elements you can navigate to, including Graphics, Footnotes, Tables and Comments. The latest version of Microsoft Word also has a Navigation sidebar, which flies out from the left when you click Find in the toolbar (or press Ctrl+F). Next, click the up or down arrow to the right to cycle through all instances of that type of element. Click View, Toolbars, Find (or press Ctrl+F), then click the type of element you want to find – Tables, Text Frames, Footnote and so on – in the dropdown menu to the right of the Find box at the bottom of the window (see screenshot below’).

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Nor does MS Office provide any built-in option to export as EPUB or any other ebook format. Overall, however, Office’s file compatibility is more limited than LibreOffice’s, which supports dozens of popular and obscure formats, including ClarisWorks’ CWK and QuarkXPress’s QXD files.

Microsoft Office has an unfair advantage here because it doesn’t have to fix problems with its own file formats. In addition, LibreOffice 6 adds support for exporting documents in the EPUB format (under File, Export As, ‘Export as EPUB’, see screenshot below), meaning you can now create your own ebooks. We tested this using formats we previously had problems with, and were pleased to find that our formatting now’ remains intact. Previously, your documents may have suffered from formatting problems when shared between MS Office programs and LibreOffice, but that should be a thing of the past.
