In the last picture https://www.debugpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Making-LibreOffice-look-like-Microsoft-Office-in-GNOME.jpg at Calc a part of the icons are missing. This happens to me always at start. I always need to click on the double arrow on the right.

Anyone knows how to fix this permanently? Thanks!

For Windows, Colibre is the default icon. So, nothing need to be installed. But GNU/Linux, it should be a package called libreoffice-style-colibre in Ubuntu based. I don’t know for other distribution.

I loved this post, I would like to contribute something. In the post you talked about how to make LibreOffice a little like MSOffice, I would like to make LibreOffice a little like Google Docs and here is my view of it.

Notes:

1. I really like LibreOffice and I had a good idea. So, I don’t know if it will be the best interface of all, but that’s what I thought. My idea of ​​a minimal GUI for LibreOffice.
2. I was talking to some users about a possible new graphical interface, I thought about this new graphical interface due to some reports of difficulties in using LibreOffice.
3. I wanted to know what you guys think, if this idea is interesting or not.
4. I’m not part of the LibreOffice Design team, I don’t even know how to participate. So in free time I created this. Hope you like it, some features don’t currently exist in LibreOffice, but it would be nice if they do.
5. I like frontend, design. I use the following tools: Gimp, Photoshop, Mspaint, Figma, Adobe Xd, Lunacy.
6. My objective is not critical of the graphical interface present in LibreOffice, objective is to create a new user interface option.
7. If you find them interesting, send them to the LibreOffice design team, please.
8. I’m not here to divulge anything, I just want to know what you think of my LibreOffice design idea.

Concept:

1. So this would be the minimal interface, in the minimal interface you would only have the most common buttons, I was inspired by Google Docs and I wanted to have something similar in LibreOffice, whoever came from Google Docs could really like LibreOffice Writer with this user interface option . It is very similar to existing user interfaces like Single Bar, Compact Bar, Compact Grouped Bar, Contextual Bar. Well the difference would be these 3:
2. The minimal bar or minimal toolbar is a bar with the following characteristic: it is a menu bar grouped in a compact, unique and contextual way. It seems to be something strange, but my idea is to take these previous ideas, or rather join the concepts of Single Bar, Compact Grouped Bar, Contextual Bar, Single Contextual Bar in a new and unique concept. This would be similar to the bar you see in Google Docs when you are editing a document.
3. The second feature that is very interesting is that it has a slide to the left and to the right, this is necessary to display all the menu icons always on the side. My idea here would be that the user would not need access to the above menu, he would only access the icons to perform his work normally. I think this would be a great alternative, given that some icons users are familiar with such as the text formatting icon etc. In addition, it is noticed that the user could focus only on the icons he needs to perform his work normally or better to format his text in the best possible way. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m right somehow this would be my preferred user interface because it’s similar to Google Docs which is something I usually use when I need to share a specific document or when most people call me to edit something on the web.
4. I tried to focus on the KISS idea – “Keep It Simple, Stupid” i.e. “Keep something easy, simple” in terms of design.
5. Another innovation, different from the previous bars is that here you could remove the icons, customize the way you think it’s interesting, of course this would be an option to customize the minimum bar, by default this minimal bar would be as shown in the photo. However, if the user wants to change, he would have this option.

This is an excellent point and something the “purists” just don’t understand. People in general are resistant to change. They want to use what they are comfortable with, or used to. Some people need baby steps. Some need more hand holding. There are, what I think of as, simple things that could be implemented yet that may not seem like a big deal to you, but it is to your average end user. For example, the top of the interface in Word is blue, Excel is green, PowerPoint is red. Yet, the whole interface in LibreOffice is the same meh color of gray. There is no quick, visual separation between each application. This isn’t something Microsoft just did for the hell of it. It was a conscious, psychological decision to provide mental and visual separation between the apps at a quick glance. Even other suites like FreeOffice or WPS Office have figured this out. Try to meet people at their level a little more and you might get more consistent adoption.

Do you have a link for that theme?

They end up paying for MS Office 365 license instead of using LibreOffice.

I always remind them how hard it was for them to let MS Office 2003 (Old UI) behind and adapt to Office 2007 ¨new¨ ribbon UI. It is not that much different between MS Office and LibreOffice Tabbed UI anyway.

BTW, Most people like WPS Office UI than LibreOffice tabbed UI and they also have a limited ¨free¨ version.

It would be great to have a closer look to MS Office, tabs also need some shades to make it look better on linux, it looks dull.

Regards

I left Microsoft for a reason, I don’t want anything to remind me of that slow, ill prerforming locked down useless OS.