LM Office 0.5.1 Beta: Better Slides, Cleaner Sheets and Media That Belongs to the Project
LM Office now gives presentations safer text editing, slide sections, reordering, project media, stock-photo hooks, draggable canvas media, presenter/program views, plus a cleaner spreadsheet delete and export workflow.
What changed in Slides
Inline slide text saves cleanly without rewriting the field on every keystroke, removing the backwards-caret typing behavior.
Slides can move up or down without changing their saved IDs.
Slides can be grouped into collapsible section folders in the left rail.
Images, audio and video can be added as real project media instead of borrowing another app’s upload type.
Canvas media can be moved, resized, rotated, layered, fitted and faded with progressive controls.
Pexels and Unsplash search hooks are available when the owner connects provider credentials; source and license metadata stay attached to stock selections.
Program and Presenter views can be flipped, with presenter notes and the next slide available on the presenter side.
What changed in Sheets
The two competing trash buttons are replaced by one Delete menu for row or column.
XLSX, CSV and PDF/Print now live under one Export menu.
PDF/Print offers landscape and portrait choices instead of pretending every sheet needs the same output.
Beta boundaries
LM Office is still a beta, not a claim of complete feature parity with Microsoft Office, Keynote or Canva. Media-rich PowerPoint export and advanced presentation transitions remain future work; existing text-focused PPTX/PDF exports stay available while those capabilities are developed safely.
What testers should try
Type directly into slide titles and body text, then switch slides and return.
Reorder slides and organize them into sections.
Upload an image or audio file and move/resize it on the slide.
Open Presenter mode and flip between Presenter and Program.
In Sheets, delete a row or column from the single Delete control and export the same sheet in multiple formats.
Use the beta on real work.
The most useful feedback is not “I like it.” Tell us where you hesitated, what took too many clicks, what did not save the way you expected, and what would make this useful enough to return to next week.
