Start Center

You see the Start Center when no document is open in LibreOffice. It is divided into two panes. Click a button on the left pane to open a new document or a file dialog.

Open existing files

The Open File button presents a file open dialog.

Remote Files

The Remote Files button presents a Remote files dialog to open files stored on remote servers.

Recent Documents

Click the Recent Documents button to show thumbnails of the most recent documents you opened in the right side of the window. Hover your mouse over the thumbnail to highlight the document, display a tip about the document location and display an icon on the top right to delete the thumbnail from the pane and from the recent files list. Click on the thumbnail to open the document underneath.

You can remove an item from the Recent Documents list by clicking the button in the upper-right corner of the icon. The document itself is not deleted. You can remove all items on the Recent Documents list by pressing the Recent Documents dropdown button and selecting Clear Recent Documents.

You can pin a recent document in the thumbnail area by clicking the pin button on the upper-left corner of the document thumbnail. The thumbnail moves to the top of the area.

Filter

Select the category of documents you want to display in the thumbnail area.

The Top Right menu

Clear Recent Documents

You can remove all items on the Recent Documents list by pressing the Recent Documents menu and selecting Clear Recent Documents.

Clear Unavailable Files

Remove thumbnails for documents that are no longer available. This will ensure only accessible documents remain in LibreOffice Start Center.

Working with Templates

Templates

Click the Templates button to display templates for all applications in the right side of the window.

Filter

Click the down arrow after the Templates button to open a menu where you can select a filter to display templates by application type or open the Template Manager dialog.

Right click on a template in the right pane to open a menu where you can either open the template to create a new document based on the template or edit the template itself.

Create:

The document buttons each open a new document of the specified type.

• Writer Document opens LibreOffice Writer

• Calc Spreadsheet opens LibreOffice Calc

• Impress Presentation opens LibreOffice Impress

• Draw Drawing opens LibreOffice Draw

• Math Formula opens LibreOffice Math

• Base Database opens LibreOffice Base